Welcome to New Music Friday, where we wrap-up all of the releases from the week ranging from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie.
STAFF PICKS
Amarionette – Impossible (feat. AJ Perdomo) (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Alex recommends: Amarionette continue to expand beyond their beginnings in the Swancore scene, and this new collaboration with vocalist AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer is a fantastic meeting point between Amarionette’s soaring, ‘80s influenced pop rock, and The Dangerous Summer’s emotionally charged alternative/indie. Amarionette’s Issy Berry and Perdomo have an enjoyable dynamic contrast between their voices, and the track promises an intriguing new sonic lane for the band.
New Haunts – Close My Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: New Haunts return with “I Close My Eyes”, their first single in over three years, as part of a Bandcamp fundraiser that supports Medical Aid for Palestinians. The track contains an infectious beat and direct lyrics, crafted to engage listeners while supporting a crucial cause.
Starve – starve2death (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple)
Joe recommends: Ahead of their full-length release Life’s Promise Dies, Melbourne unit Starve have dropped another scorcher of a single in the form of “starve2death”, a full-throttle and biting track and will only build up the anticipation ahead of the record’s release.
Hacktivist – Not Alone (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple)
Ed recommends: Hacktivist continue their successful comeback run of singles with a song that’s sure to please fans of their heavier side. “Not Alone” is quite possibly their hardest hitting song to date, not least through its message that focuses on mental health.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
200 Stab Wounds – Manual Manic Procedures
Label – Metal Blade Records
Islander – Grammy Nominated
Label – Independent
Love Letter – Everyone Wants Something Beautiful
Label – Iodine Records
Pijn – From Low Beams Of Hope
Label – Floodlit Recordings
Split Iris – Bloodred Dusk
Label – Seek & Strike
Sunfall – Les Morts Sont Nés Ici
Label – Independent
The God Awful Truth – All That Dark & All That Cold
Label – Dark Trial Records
Wraith – Fueled By Fear
Label – Prosthetic Records
Crossfaith – AЯK
Label – UNFD
Bella Bites – Desperate (EP)
Label – Perfect Fourth Records
cohen_noise – Some Things Aren’t Forever, But for a Reason Vol. 1 (EP)
Label – Independent
Gl!tches – A Cause For Insanity (EP)
Label – Independent
Knife Spitter – Deeper than Hell (EP)
Label – Independent
Revnoir – Revenant (EP)
Label – Independent
SHADE UK – SECOND SKIN (EP)
Label – Independent
SLUGCRUST – Discharge(d) (EP)
Label – Terminus Hate City
Take Hold – Stay Down (EP)
Label – Independent
Against the Waves – Acolyte (Single)
Label – Independent
Alleviate – DMNS (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Beauty in a Plastic Bag – I Am Nothing (feat. Daniel Schnieder of Keep Me Alive) (Single)
Label – Outlive Records
BROJOB – GIRTH BROOKS (Single)
Label – Independent
Chain Gang – Stolen Valor (feat. PeelingFlesh) (Single)
Label – Black Diamond Co
Elyne – Blood on the Dance Floor (Single)
Label – Independent
Grave Sight – Smothered (Single)
Label – Independent
HolyName – Stained Glass (feat. Heal The Hurt) (Single)
Label – Independent
Hostile Array – Slow Decay (Single)
Label – Independent
Ill Defined – Fading Further (Single)
Label – Independent
Inertia – Too Far Gone (Single)
Label – Resist Records
Infinite Exile – Sold My Soul for Another Roll (Single)
Label – Independent
NAYSAYERS – Misery (Single)
Label – Independent
ORPHAN – Revenant (Single)
Label – Feral Records
Ransom Revue – 222 (Single)
Label – Independent
Revoid – Never Mind (Single)
Label – Independent
Set for Tomorrow – CTRL (Single)
Label – Independent
Sky Caught Fire – The Rain (Single)
Label – Independent
Statefall – Denial (Single)
Label – Independent
Substation – Atlantis (Single)
Label – Independent
The Narrator – The Witch (feat. Half Me) (Single)
Label – Independent
blacktoothed – Hell’s Paradise (feat. Felix Fröhlich of BITE) (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Bodyweb – pull the plug (Single)
Label – Northern Unrest
Hacktivist – Not Alone (Single)
Label – Lifeform
Left IV Dead – Necrodancer (feat. Notions) (Single)
Label – Independent
Røt – Death to the People (Single)
Label – Independent
Shinto Katana – Sabaku Kyū (feat. Volatile Ways) (Single)
Label – New Ethic Records
Temperer – Take Matters (Single)
Label – Independent
To the Grave – Dead Wrong (feat. Micheal Kearney) (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Try Angel – Equal (Single)
Label – Basement Records
Royal Hearts – don’t go far (Single)
Label – Independent
Within the Ruins – Castle in the Sky (Single)
Label – Entertainment One U.S
Memphis May Fire – Paralyzed (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Nylist – Drown (feat. Johnny Ciardullo)
Label – Independent
Apate – Glas Cathedral (Single)
Label – Human Warfare
The Dali Thundering Concept – Nobody (Single)
Label – Independent
VOWER – False Ritual (Single)
Label – apricity records
Wolf Creek – Relapse (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Firewalker – Hell Bent
Label – Triple B Records
Imposter – Oblivion Opens
Label – Quality Control HQ
Frontsector – 44 Stomp (EP)
Label – Independent
HEAVEN – 4-Track EP (EP)
Label – Iron Lung Records
Pound of Flesh – Badwolf (EP)
Label – Independent
Cross of Disbelief – Hands Bound in Absent Prayer (EP)
Label – Streets Of Hate
Grave Way – Suffering (feat. Chuck Spade) (Single)
Label – Independent
Juice B.C. – Festival of Fools (Single)
Label – WAR Records
Temper Tantrum – Baby Time (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl Australia
Struck a Nerve – Nocturnal Terror (Single)
Label – Youngblood Records
GEL – Persona (Single)
Label – Blue Grape Records
Sprayer – Desperate (Single)
Label – Outta Sight Records
Submerge – Truth Be Told (feat. Glory is a Ghost)
Label – 51st State Records
Dropped At Birth – Stab Wounds (Single)
Label – Independent
Fucked Up – Another Day (Single)
Label – Independent
Mexican Coke – Hand Cannon (Single)
Label – Convulse Records
Sujera – Out Of The Cage (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Bilmuri – AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS
Label – Independent
HUSHMONEY – HUSHMONEY
Label – Sunday Drive Records
My Epic – Loriella
Label – Tooth & Nail
NOTHING MORE – CARNAL
Label – Better Noise Music
nothing,nowhere. – Hell or Highwater
Label – Independent
Oh Hiroshima – All Things Shining
Label – Pelagic Records
Outlander – Acts of Harm
Label – Church Road Records
Anthony Green – Doom. Spun.
Label – Born Loser Records
Banks Arcade – A Muse (EP)
Label – UNFD
Boy Hero – Year One (EP)
Label – Kontrolla Music Group
Hard Chiller – Heavy Cell (EP)
Label – Born Losers Records
The Exies – Closure (EP)
Label – SO In De Goot
Yellowbelly – First Rodeo (EP)
Label – Independent
Amira Elfeky & Scarlet House – Remains of Us (Single)
Label – Atlantic Recording
As December Falls – Go Away (Single)
Label – Independent
breakk.away – Secret (Single)
Label – Independent
Forever Ends Here – Unspoken (Single)
Label – Independent
House of Protection – Being One (Single)
Label – Red Bull Records
HRTLSS – Fear Of You (Single)
Label – Independent
Izzy Reign – The Sunken Place (Single)
Label – FiXT
Kaonashi – Straycations (Single)
Label – Rude Records
Landon Tewers – Fallin Out (Single)
Label – Independent
Last Chance To Reason – The Divide (Single)
Label – Independent
Lizzy Farrall – BodyInYourBasement (Single)
Label – Independent
Lø Spirit – NICCI (Single)
Label – Misfit Radio
lolitslea – Favorite Singer (Single)
Label – Independent
LOVELOST – LOSING EVERYTHING (Single)
Label – Year Of The Rat Records
mirabelle. – All My Friends (Single)
Label – Independent
Miss Fortune – My Apologies Pt.3 (Single)
Label – Independent
paradise fell. – honest. (Single)
Label – Independent
Rain City Drive – Neverbloom (Single)
Label – Independent
Real Friends – Waiting Room (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Seek Harbour – Sleepless Water ii (Single)
Label – Independent
Statefall – Denial (Single)
Label – Independent
Strange Company – Look Alive (Single)
Label – Independent
Sunsleep – DEADWEIGHT (Single)
Label – Independent
The Oklahoma Kid – Ignoranz (feat. Consvmer) (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Waterparks – FAI2 (feat. Zeph) (Single)
Label – Independent
WREX – Heaven’s Gate (Single)
Label – Independent
билборды – Встретимся в аду (Single)
Label – Independent
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows – Losers Stay Losers (Let-down) (Single)
Label – Velocity Records
Hands Like Houses – Chemicals (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl Australia
Loveless – Heart-Shaped Soul (Single)
Label – BMG Rights Management
Liminal Silence – You’ll Breathe Again (Single)
Label – Independent
Militarie Gun – Gun Under the Gun (MFG) (Single)
Label – Concord
Nevertel – SYM (Single)
Label – Epitaph
newshapes – heavensent (Single)
Label – Independent
Siamese – Chemistry (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records
Slowly Slowly – Gimme the Wrench (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Uzumaki – Look Outside (Single)
Label – Everything Sucks Music
Yours Truly – California Sober (Single)
Label – UNFD
Magnolia Park – Shallow (Single)
Label – Epitaph
Student Slasher Film – Boulder (Single)
Label – Independent
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die (Single)
Label – Epitaph
zebrahead – I Have Mixed Drinks About Feelings (Single)
Label – MFZB Records
American Theory – Drowning (Single)
Label – Independent
Million Moons – Intruders in a Strange World (Single)
Label – Independent
Zetra – Shatter The Mountain (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Alamance – Little Girl Gone (Single)
Label – Independent
death_on_impact – A Sickened Rose Is of No Use (Single)
Label – Independent
Followship & pulses. – Special (Single)
Label – Yie Or Die!
Modern Baseball – Two Demos (Single)
Label – Run For Cover Record
Mountaineer – Cradlesong (Single)
Label – A Thousand Arms Music
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism (Extended Versions)
Label – Warner Music
FlowerBoyDeMii – FOREVER333
Label – Independent
Foxglove – Thinking Too Much…
Label – Independent
Joshua – prologue to ‘éden’
Label – Independent
kirakira – Old Sounds, Modern Era
Label – dreamstation
Virginity – Bad Jazz
Label – Smartpunk Records
Washed Out – Notes From a Quiet Life
Label – Sub Pop
3R2 – Echoes (EP)
Label – Independent
Alaskan Tapes – Wait (feat. Andrew Tasselmyer) (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Clairo – Nomad (Single)
Label – Independent
Daya – Don’t Call (Single)
Label – Spinnin’ Records
Jasmine Clarke – Angel Baby (Single)
Label – Independent
TURQUOISEDEATH – Glimmer (Single)
Label – Dismiss Yourself
Kodeseven – Prototype (feat. REEBZ) (Single)
Label – FiXT
Mimi Barks – HOUSE FULL OF FAKES (Single)
Label – Silent Cult
Ayumi Hamasaki – Aurora (Single)
Label – AVEC MUSIC
CHADWICK – Say Less (Single)
Label – Independent
Foster The People – Take Me Back (Single)
Label – Atlantic Recording
Lucy In Disguise – Drip (Single)
Label – Independent
Soot Sprite – I Went Swimming (Single)
Label – Specialist Subject
Xiu Xiu – Common Loon (Single)
Label – Polyvinyl Record
VTSS – TRISHA (Single)
Label – 44 LABEL GROUP