New Music Friday – June 28th, 2024

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