New Music Friday – May 13th, 2022

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