Welcome to New Music Friday, where we wrap-up all of the releases from the week ranging from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. Give our release calendar a look to see what other releases are coming up. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.
STAFF PICKS
Blind Girls – Dissonance (Single)
Label – Persistent Vision
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Arguably one of the finest screamo acts in the genre, Blind Girls‘ harrowing sound makes its return on “Dissonance“. Brouwer‘s vocals are haunting in their anguish, that sit alongside dissonant chords that make for a hellish listen.
Daybreak – No One’s Coming (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Returning with their first single since 2021, Daybreak are back with an absolutely chaotic blend of nu-metalcore and dubstep, making for something that defies any predisposed opinions toward such sound to create something that is absolutely electric.
IOTA – Hollow (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Shoegaze come post-rock upstarts IOTA continue to impress on “Hollow“, grunge-style expansive vocals backed by a blend of plucked and riff heavy guitars make for an earworm of a listen. If this is the route that IOTA are set to continue on, they should soon become a staple in the UK scene.
Out Of Love – World Peace (Single)
Label – Secret Friends Music Group
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Harry recommends: Dialling back on the breakneck pace of April’s “Tiny Brain“, British quintet Out of Love come out swinging with a biting yet lively and dancy punk banger in “World Peace“, standing up and ‘kicking back’ at all the shit the world throws at you.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
CANDY – It’s Inside You
Label – Relapse Records
Illyria – Wanderlust
Label – Independent
Porcupine – All Is Vapor
Label – NEW MORALITY ZINE
Umbra Vitae – Light of Death
Label – Deathwish Inc.
Vomit the Soul – Massive Incineration
Label – Unique Leader Records
Darko – Starfire
Label – Independent
Bare King – Hand of God, Vise of Malice (EP)
Label – Gang Violence
DVRK – Infinite Reminiscence (EP)
Label – Season of Mist
Let Us Fall – Insomnis (EP)
Label – Independent
Primal Horde – Primal Horde (EP)
Label – Barbaric Brutality
Stick to Your Guns – Invisible Rain (EP)
Label – Sharptone Records
Your Last Breath – Burn the Earth (EP)
Label – Your Last Breath Records
Alleviate – Alive (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Apathy UK – Desolate (Single)
Label – Independent
Awake the Dreamer – Violence (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Bloodlines – Holiness Cries (Single)
Label – Facedown Records
Burialgrounds – DISSONANCE (Single)
Label – Distorted Euphoria
Centrilia – Liminal (Single)
Label – 233 Records
Crossfaith – Warriors (feat. SiM)
Label – UNFD
Crystalview – :.aurora) (Single)
Label – Independent
Darknet & Mirrorcell – angelbyte. (Single)
Label – Independent
Drøver – Broken Vow (feat. Viktor Schulz of Our Promise) (Single)
Label – Independent
Hell Can Wait – Price To Pay (Single)
Label – Independent
Immortal Disfigurement – KING (Single)
Label – Independent
Sea Of Treachery – FEARBOMB (Single)
Label – Mutant League Records
Stoneside. – You’re No God (Single)
Label – Famined Records
Veiled – Omen of Torture (Single)
Label – Seek & Strike
Windwaker – Get Out (Single)
Label – Cooking Vinyl Australia
WITHER THE FALLACY – Poltergeist (feat. Face Yourself) (Single)
Label – Independent
ARCHIVES – SHARKPIT (Single)
Label – Independent
Half Me – Fatalist (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Oceano – Wounds Never Healed (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Stay Design – Old Blood (Single)
Label – Independent
The Undertaking! – And The Silver Surfer (Single)
Label – Futurelore Records
Heriot – Foul Void (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
In Hearts Wake – Orphan (lᴉʌǝp ǝɥʇ) (Single)
Label – UNFD
Axty – Emptiness Within (Single)
Label – Outono Music
HEAVENSGATE – RATKING (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records
Left to Suffer (Make It Out Alive (Feat. Darius Tehrani of Spite) (Single)
Label – ONErpm
Sanguisugabogg – Permanently Fucked (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
HARDCORE RELEASES
Drip-Fed – Sold for Parts
Label – Head2Wall Records
Missing Link – Watch Me Bleed
Label – Triple B Records
Human Garbage – Valley’s Most Hated
Label – Creator-Destructor Records
Sect – Plagues Upon Plagues
Label – Southern Lord
Time X Heist – With Every Passing Moment (Single)
Label – Indecision Records
Conduit – The Art Of Playing God (EP)
Label – Takedown Records
Deviant – Dark City (EP)
Label – Independent
Halo Bite – Winner’s Circle (EP)
Label – Independent
Real Deal – Perceive the Light, Vol. 1 (EP)
Label – Independent
Provisional – Inside Out (EP)
Label – Independent
These Streets – Demonstration 2024 (EP)
Label – Independent
Threshold – Descent to Misery (EP)
Label – Independent
Tombflower – Ecocide (EP)
Label – BB Records
Khasm – Theater of War (EP)
Label – Ephyra
Gravitate – The Reckoning (EP)
Label – Loudmouth Records
Brain Tourniquet – Parasite / Unclouded By Conscious (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records
HEAVEN – Stagnant Dream (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records
In Other Climes – One Life One Chance (Single)
Label – Dead Serious Recordings
Linger – Absolved (Single)
Label – Independent
Set The Bar Low – Domino (Single)
Label – Independent
End Of Sanity – E.O.S. (Single)
Label – DAZE
Lucked Out – BOTTOMFEEDER (feat. Mugshot) (Single)
Label – Independent
Body Farm & Dry Socket – Sadistic Game // Sparks (Single)
Label – Independent
Defective – Trash (Single)
Label – SOBATMUSIKINDO
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
From Ashes to New – Blackout (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Better Noise Music
Rarity – Lower Feeling
Label – New Damage Records
Go Go Ponies – Too Posh to Mosh (EP)
Label – Independent
Hands Like Houses – STRATO (EP)
Label – Cooking Vinyl
Kerosene Heights – LEAVING (EP)
Label – Independent
Red Vanilla – Days of Grey (EP)
Label – Independent
Saisei 再生 – Saisei Goes Punk! (EP)
Label – Independent
Ankor – Embers (Single)
Label – Independent
A Skylit Drive – Count Me Out (Single)
Label – Independent
Awake the Dreamer – Violence (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Falselove – wit(HER) (Single)
Label – Independent
FOXCULT – GENINI 4 (feat. Tom Weaver of Casey) (Single)
Label – Independent
Giant Walker – Halcion (Single)
Label – Independent
House of Protection – Learn to Forget (Single)
Label – Red Bull Records
Nerv – FAKE! (Single)
Label – Independent
One Hundred Thousand – All the Nothing (Single)
Label – Independent
MinsterWives – Other Side (feat. Charlotte Sands)
Label – Photo Finish Records
Miranda and the Beat – Earthquake Water (Single)
Label – Ernest Jenning Record
Queen Cult – The Hand Lender (Single)
Label – Mother City
Sunsleep – Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears Cover) (Single)
Label – SBG Records
Twin Atlantic – Sorry (Single)
Label – Staple Diet
Wine & Warpaint – Bring Me Back (Single)
Label – Independent
Blame Me! – Edge of War (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Coma Waves – Stigma (Single)
Label – Independent
Rare Words – Antidote (Single)
Label – Independent
Rivals – World’s Worst Valentine
Label – Independent
Tether – Hollywood Trauma (Single)
Label – Independent
Love Is Noise – Soft Glow
Label – Century Media Records
Poppy – New Way Out
Label – Sumerian Records
Stand Still – We Know the Score (feat. Pain of Truth)
Label – DAZE
Sugar Horse – Office Job Simulator
Label – Pelagic Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
all under heaven – What Lies Ahead of Me
Label – Sunday Drive Records
Aurora – What Happened To The Heart?
Label – Glassn
Aimer – 遥か / 800 / End of All / Ref:rain -3 nuits ver.- 遥か / 800 / End of All / Ref:rain -3 nuits ver.-
Label – Sony Music
Charli XCX – BRAT
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Leisure Hour – The Sunny Side
Label – Refresh Records
Razor Braids – Big Wave
Label – Independent
Night Tapes – assisted memories (EP)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
RAYE – Genesis. (EP)
Label – Human Re Sources
Siv Jakobsen – bird’s-eye view (EP)
Label – The Nordic Mellow
Cults – Left My Keys (Single)
Label – IMPERIAL
Luna Shadows – bleach (Single)
Label – Independent
PONY – Freezer (Single)
Label – Take This To Heart Records
Rachel Bochner – Alchemical (Single)
Label – Handwritten Records
beabadoobee – Coming Home (Single)
Label – Dirty Hit
DEADLETTER – Mother (Single)
Label – So Recordings
Lucky Iris – something to believe in (Single)
Label – Launchpad+
Soccer Mommy – Lost (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Cursive – Up And Away (Single)
Label – Run For Cover Records
Halsey – The End (Single)
Label – Columbia Records
Kate Davis – DDR (Single)
Label – Anti
Loud Love – Cannonball (Single)
Label – White Russian Records
Mazare – Generation Gap (feat. Dead Pony)
Label – Monstercat