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
False Reality – Cost of Spite (Single)
Label – Hassle Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Moving from strength to strength, False Reality have absolutely killed once again with their latest track “Cost of Spite“. Each element cranked a level on the aggression, and False Reality offer up a frenzied guitar solo into a nails breakdown that will please any movers on their upcoming tour with Heriot.
Forewarned – Fall From Grace (Single)
Label – Kingpin Melbourne Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Melbourne once again delivers, this time with hardcore unit Forewarned dropping a track that is vicious with “Fall From Grace“. A kick that is pummeling the pedal into an inch of its life, with a grizzled barked vocals that has the strength to command any crowd in a live setting.
MORTAL REMINDER – CROCODILE TEARS (Single)
Label – Journey Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Continuing with this Friday’s aggression, “CROCODILE TEARS” is an ultra tight, uber aggressive metalcore track. The inhumanly sharp guitars move like auditory errors in the digital stream, and the vocals sound utterly wronged. It thoroughly involves its opening sample to make it more than an unnerving jingle.
Obsidian Tongue – Orphaned Spiritual Warrior (Single)
Label – Profound Lore
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: “Orphaned Spiritual Warrior” will be Obsidian Tongue‘s LP opener, and it’s a six minute preview of the record that promises to be the best progressive metal album of 2025. It reaches wild heights of dissonance and includes clean vocal segments that throw back to the greatest moments of 90s extreme metal.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Alien Weaponry – Te Rā
Label – Napalm Records
Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty
Label – Century Media Records
Awfully Pretty – A Spot Between
Label – No Prejudice
Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Label – Roadrunner Records
Doomsday – Never Known Peace
Label – Creator-Destructor Records
Forlorn – Aether
Label – Church Road Records
Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter
Label – Rise Records
Varia – The Changing of Tides
Label – GT DIGITAL
Amenra – De Toorn (EP)
Label – Relapse Records, Inc.
Amenra – With Fang and Claw (EP)
Label – Relapse Records, Inc
Born in Dissonance – Wellbeing (EP)
Label – Independent
Invent Animate & Silent Planet – Bloom in Heaven (EP)
Label – UNFD
Torn from Oblivion – Transcend (EP)
Label – Prime Collective
5th.Incision – Desperate (Single)
Label – Independent
Annisokay – Inner Sanctum (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Burn Absolute – Error (Single)
Label – Independent
Dagger Threat – becoming (Single)
Label – Independent
Desolated – Glass Ceiling (Single)
Label – MLVLTD
From Fall to Spring – INCOMPLETE (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Ghost Chant – No Recovery (Single)
Label – Revival Recordings
Hacktivist – BONES (Single)
Label – Lifeform
HELL CAN WAIT – True Colours (Single)
Label – Independent
Mafia Birdhouse – Blight (Single)
Label – Independent
Major Moment – Married (Single)
Label – Independent
MERC – Defilade (Single)
Label – Spearhead Records
Mortal Reminder – CROCODILE TEARS (Single)
Label – Independent
Nail Bite – Nutshell (Single)
Label – Vultures Music Company
On Hollow Ground – Walls (Single)
Label – Independent
Ov Ruin – Flesh and Bone (feat. BROJOB) (Single)
Label – Independent
RinRin – CORNDOG! (Single)
Label – Year of the Rat Records
SWARM6IX – $ocial Violence (feat. Kubrick) (Single)
Label – Independent
ten56. – Pig (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music
Vilamoura – Orphan (Single)
Label – Independent
Vilified – Capitulate (Single)
Label – Independent
Volumes – Sidewinder (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Wither The Fallacy – GO! (Single)
Label – 9Dime Recordz
Wolves at the Gate – SYNTHETIC SUN (Single)
Label – Solid State Records
World Divided – DIRT (Single)
Label – Independent
Abbie Falls – Hellbound (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music
Auras – SILENT JESTER (Single)
Label – Independent
Employed to Serve – Breaks Me Down (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Records
Straight Shot Home – Echo Chamber (Single)
Label – Independent
Ultra-Violence – Through the Static (feat. Thorn in Side) (Single)
Label – Independent
Waves in Autumn – Take the Bull by the Horns (Single)
Label – Independent
Yet Still We Pray – Absolved Through Immolation (feat. Eyesawgod) (Single)
Label – Independent
Age of Apocalypse – Mortal Coil (Single)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Brace Yourself – Wounds (Single)
Label – Independent
Deez Nuts – Kill This Shit (Single)
Label – Century Media
HERTA – The Snake Devours the Wolf (Single)
Label – Independent
Kardashev – Seed of the Night (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records
Survive Said the Prophet – State of Mind (feat. Matt Good of From First to Last) (Single)
Label – Jisedai Inc.
Phantom Limbs – Keeping It Alive (Single)
Label – Independent
Weeping Wound – KARMA TICKET (Single)
Label – Independent
Wounded Touch – Consequence and Broadcast (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records
HARDCORE RELEASES
JIVEBOMB – Ethereal
Label – Flatspot Records
The Warriors – Burn Yourself Alive.
Label – Pure Noise Records
Bird Law – No Good Left on Earth (EP)
Label – Scum Punk Records
CROSS CHECK – if you’re not afraid then why are you shaking (EP)
Label – Be About It Records
Keep It Real – Blood Dawn Resistance (Single)
Label – Greedy Dust Records
Snuff Tape – Dead to Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Sore Teeth – Backstab (Single)
Label – Cleveland Records
Sunstroke – Hell of a Year for Daisies (Single)
Label – WAR Records
Xiao – Wrong (Single)
Label – Twelve Gauge Records
Provisional – Urge (No Way Out?) (Single)
Label – Independent
Believe in Nothing – What Would You Do? (Single)
Label – Independent
Cold Authority – Big City Bullshit (Single)
Label – Independent
FINAL GIRLS – Axe Wound (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Niis – Niis world
Label – Get Better Records
Sick Puppies – WAVE THE BULL
Label – Independent
Underoath – The Place After This One
Label – MNRK
Amira Elfeky – Surrender (EP)
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation
kairo. & Snow Halo – Split (EP)
Label – SUnday Drive Records
Orchards – Bicker (EP)
Label – Big Scary Monsters
Pleiades – If Your Roots Run Deep, You Can’t Fear The Wind (EP)
Label – Independent
About Monsters – Suffocate (Single)
Label – Redfield Records
AS IT IS – Cheap Shots & Setbacks X (feat. Mikey Chapman of Mallory Knox and ROAM) (Single)
Label – Slam Dunk Records
Bayside – Devotion and Desire (2025) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Coletta – Tattoo (Single)
Label – Independent
Dead Like Juliet – No Excuses (Single)
Label – Independent
Evanescence – Afterlife (from the Netflix Series “Devil May Cry”) (Single)
Label – Netflix Music
FOXCULT – THE EMERALD GROVE (feat. Tom Byrne of Galleons & Valiant Hearts) (Single)
Label – Adventure Cat Records
Kami Kehoe – Safehouse (feat. Colorblind & Ekoh) (Single)
Label – Oxide Records
Leisure Hour – Ode to Muncie (Single)
Label – Independent
Lost Trees – 902A (OVRDSE) (Single)
Label – Independent
Patience – Bliss (Single)
Label – Independent
rosecoloredworld – i caught fire (Single)
Label – Independent
ShotoChris – Hands of Veil (feat. OkamiDarakino) (Single)
Label – Independent
Smoking Popes – Fox River Dream (Single)
Label – Independent
TSS – Something In The Way (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Twin Skeletons – You & Me (Single)
Label – Independent
THE WESTERN EXPANSE – HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS (Single)
Label – DIMENSIONAL PROJECTS
Angel Number – The Chalice (Single)
Label – Common Outcast
Linkin Park – Up From The Bottom (Single)
Label – Warner Records
Royal Hearts – A Dimmer Light (feat. Heavy//Hitter) (Single)
Label – Independent
Split Chain – bored. tired. torn. (Single)
Label – Independent
eyelid. – lost in translation (Single)
Label – Independent
Fifty Grand – The Jade (feat. Pulled Apart By Dogs) (Single)
Label – Red Mirror Records
Ghosts of Hope – Sanctified (Single)
Label – Independent
Hundredth – All the Way (Single)
Label – Independent
Indifferent Engine – Crescents (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Knives – PHD (Single)
Label – Marshall Records
The Wonder Years – I Don’t Like Who I Was Then (feat. Ryland Heagy of Origami Angel) (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
PUP – Get Dumber (feat. Jeff Rosenstock) (Single)
Label – Rise Records
L.O.E – After All is Said & Done (feat. Alan Watts) (Single)
Label – Hopeful Tragedy Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
girlpuppy – Sweetness
Label – Captured Tracks
Korine – A Flame in the Dark
Label – Born Losers Records
Lucy Dacus – Forever Is A Feeling
Label – Geffen
Somebody’s Child – When Youth Fades Away
Label – Frenchkiss Records
Aeriu Ika – breathe. (Single)
Label – Independent
Dua Lipa – Physical (feat. Troye Sivan) (Single)
Label – Warner Music
Ella Vos – National Anthem (Single)
Label – Superglue Records
Foxglove – Night Drive (Single)
Label – Independent
little image – RUN FOR FOREVER (Single)
Label – Hollywood Records
Poppy Wizard – Eraser (Single)
Label – Supervillain
Honey I’m Home – Wishful Thinking (Single)
Label – Independent
Black Country, New Road – For the Cold Country (Single)
Label – Ninja Tune
Julien Baker & TORRES – Dirt (Single)
Label – Matador Records
Spyres – Fun (Single)
Label – LAB Records
Horse Jumper of Love – The Idiot/The Car Knows Why (Single)
Label – Run For Cover Records
Laura Jane Grace – Mine Me Mine (Single)
Label – Polyvinyl Records
Model/Actriz – Doves (Single)
Label – True Panther Records
Samia – Hole In A Fame (Single)
Label – Grand Jury Music
Soot Sprite – Days After Days (Single)
Label – Specialist Subject