Welcome to this week’s edition of all the new metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff.
STAFF PICKS
Polyphia – Playing God (Single)
Label – Rise Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Sean recommends: Polyphia’s new track ‘Playing God’ shows that the band has not missed a beat. They somehow managed to make an acoustic centric track sound epic, and it has undeniable groove.
Lorna Shore – Sun//Eater (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Harry recommends: Lorna Shore return with yet another cinematic masterpiece in ‘Sun//Eater‘. Eased in with ambience ripped from a movie score and replete with insane kicks, driving synths, and the effortless range of vocalist Will Ramos, ‘Sun//Eater‘ once again marks the band as the titans of symphonic deathcore.
Vatican – [ULTRAGOLD] (Single)
Label – UNFD
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Max recommends: Vatican continue to prove they’re one of the most unique and interesting voices in metalcore right now with ‘[ULTRAGOLD]‘, a violent and ferocious single, and a sign of things to come on the band’s forthcoming studio record Ultra next month. Keep an eye on the site early next month for our official review of the project!
YUQI – Giant + Bonnie & Clyde (Band Version)
Label – Cube Entertainment
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dallis recommends: With a tremendous reinvigoration and reimagination of her singles debut, YUQI takes the stage front and centre to give these two tracks the tomboy era glow-up they truly deserve.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Cage Fight – Cage Fight [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Candlelight Records
Moon Tooth – Phototroph [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Pure Noise Records
Misery Index – Complete Control
Label – Century Media Records
Jungle Rot – A Call to Arms
Label – Unique Leader Records
Primitive Man – Insurmountable
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Undead Corporation – Gravity (EP)
Label – Ichigeki Record
ATLVS – Broken Bonds (Single) [FEATURE]
Label – Independent
Bleed From Within – Flesh and Stone (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Motionless In White – Slaughterhouse (feat. Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose) (Single)
Label – Roadrunner Records
Spite – Hangman (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Left to Suffer – Fatal Attraction (Single)
Label – Artist Owned
Behemoth – Ov My Herculean Exile (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Berried Alive – Melon-Choly (Single)
Label – Independent
Soilwork – Övergivenheten (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Decapitated – Just A Cigarette (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Rain City Drive – Waiting On You (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
VEXES – The Dream Disease (Single)
Label – Independent
WARGASM (UK) – D.R.I.L.D.O. (Single)
Label – Angry Songs For Sad People
Oceans of Slumber – Hearts of Stone (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Execution Day – Suffocate (Single)
Label – Independent
Eyes Wide Open – Cross My Heart (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Dream Drop – Metamorphosis (Single)
Label – GAIN
Elyne – Call It Home (Single)
Label – Independent
Awake the Dreamer – Alone (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Seeing Things – Banshee (Single)
Label – Independent
A War Within – Pretend to Be Myself (Single)
Label – Independent
The GFM Band – The Enemy (Single)
Label – Rockfest Records
Scarlett O’Hara – Talk to Me (Single)
Label – South Texas Metalcore
INHUMAN – DEATHLIST (feat. Code:Pandorum & GHOSTKID) (Single)
Label – Lauter Lauter
Saving Vice – White Rabbit (Single)
Label – Independent
Acaedia – REM (feat. Tom Barber) (Single)
Label – Independent
Five Finger Death Punch – IOU (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music
Devil’s Cut – Insomnia (Single)
Label – Independent
Her Name Echoes – All the Same (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
State Champs – Kings of the New Age [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Pure Noise Records
The Pineapple Thief – Give It Back
Label – kscope
Gospel – The Loser
Label – Independent
The Blizzards – Sometimes We See More in The Dark
Label – Independent
My Chemical Romance – The Foundations of Decay (Single)
Label – Reprise Records
Reside – Palace (feat. Jono Hawkey of Bloom) (Single)
Label – Independent
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows – Outcasts vs Everyone (feat. Brennan Savage) (Single)
Label – Velocity Records
Waterparks – Funeral Grey (Single)
Label – Fueled By Ramen
Mono – The Place (Single)
Label – Temporary Residence Ltd.
Emery – I Don’t Know You at All (Single)
Label – Tooth & Nail Records
Death Cab For Cutie – Roman Candles (Single)
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Halflives – Dynamite (Campfire Version) (Single)
Label – Independent
True North – Not Alone (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Story Untold – Toxic Love (Single)
Label – Independent
Makari – Phantom (Single)
Label – Independent
Bayside – Strangest Faces (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE RELEASES
Emma Ruth Rundle – EG2: Dowsing Voice [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Sargent House
Florence & The Machine – Dance Fever
Label – Polydor Records
The Black Keys – Dropout Boogie
Label – Nonesuch
Bear’s Den – Blue Hours
Label – Communion Records
Vansire – The Modern Western World
Label – Independent
Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter
Label – Independent
Say Sue Me – The Last Thing Left
Label – Damnably
The Smile – A Light for Attracting Attention (Single)
Label – XL Recordings
Dishwalla – Alive (EP)
Label – Pavement Entertainment
Shangrila – Sunlight (Single)
Label – Independent
Illenium – Shivering (feat. Spiritbox) (Single)
Label – Warner Records
Pale Waves – Lies (Single)
Label – Dirty Hit
Automatisme & Stefan Paulus – Üble Schlucht (Single)
Label – Constellation
T. Gowdy – Vidisions (Single)
Label – Constellation
The Utopia Strong – Castalia (Single)
Label – Rocket Recordings
K-POP RELEASES
TXT – minisode 2: Thursday’s Child
Label – BIGHIT MUSIC
TAEYEON – By My Side (OST Single)
Label – YAMYAM Entertainment
Yezi – Acacia (Single)
Label – Interpark Corporation