Welcome to New Music Friday, where we wrap-up all 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.
Brightr – Never Home, Never Mind (Single)
Label – Sugar-Free Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Brightr is one-man twinkling-acoustic emo out from the hands of Laurie Cottingham. “Never Home, Never Mind” is a showcase of his heart-tugging voice, drawning its inflections from emo’s enduring spirit. The guitarwork is also a marvel, especially in its instrumental closing passage, perhaps a pretty silver lining for its downtrodden lyrics.
Closure – Glare (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Closure are a post-hardcore squad from Sydney with eyes set on the global stage with their latest “Glare“. It’s the kind of track that offers it all, offering gratifying heavy moments whilst being abundantly warm and welcoming. The mix of harsh and clean vocals compete to be even more emotive than one another when they trade the mic. They previously supported Holding Absence and will soon support Banks Arcade on their upcoming tour; let this be a vote for even bigger opportunities in Glare‘s future.
Ihlo – Empire (Single)
Label – Kscope
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Kieran recommends: Ihlo return six years on from their stellar debut Union with new single “Empire” and the announcement of their sophomore album Legacy. It’s what we expect from Ihlo and more – a seven minute journey laden with prog metal chugging, synthy earworms, and luscious clean vocals from vocalist/keyboardist Andy Robison. “Empire” marks a step forward for these Scottish underdogs as they shift into a sound that is noticeably more mature than their debut. Legacy is sure to impress when it drops August 29th.
Mourn – Poisoned Tongues (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: The past few months have blessed us with returns of some of the UK’s finest, now as April closes out, the sublime Mourn make their return with track “Poisoned Tongues“. Griffiths‘ leading with a superb and venomous vocal performance, backed by the thrashy riffs and grooves that made their previous record The Next Life so magnificent. We can only hope that the second coming of Mourn that will see etch their name as one of the UK’s strongest acts.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Body Minus Head – An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency
Label – No Funeral Records
Desolated – Finding Peace
Label – MLVLTD
low before the breeze – A Hole Beneath the Home We Shared
Label – Terminus Hate City
Metallica – Ain’t My Bitch (Remastered)
Label – UMC
Obstruktion – The End Takes Form
Label – Suicide Records
Ov Ruin – Eternal Lament (Deluxe)
Label – Independent
Rivers of Nihil – Rivers of Nihil
Label – Metal Blade Records
Shallowsky – Shallowsky
Label – Independent
Stray From The Path – Clockworked
Label – UNFD
Vildhjarta – + där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar +
Label – Century Media Records
Wolves at the Gate – Wasteland
Label – Solid State Records
DIESECT – HIDE FROM THE LIGHT (EP)
Label – Greyscale Records
Flow Kobra – FLY TO THE SKY (EP)
Label – CheezyGrinEnterprises
Go Go Ponies – Alcohol You Later (EP)
Label – GO GO FARM
Onewaymirror, Kiowa & I Promised The World – The Snowball Effect (EP)
Label – Home To Heart Records
Marked As An Enemy – War Of Mine (EP)
Label – Independent
Othiel – WORLDS FASTEST CAR (EP)
Label – Zegema Beach Records
Realm of Torment – Endless Tragedy (EP)
Label – The Coming Strife
Fallen at Dawn – Omnia (EP)
Label – Independent
Powerball & Lake Verity – The Heavens Torn in Two (EP)
Label – Independent
Crowquill – Crowquill (EP)
Label – The Coming Strife
5th.Incision – Clusterfuck (feat. BLASTPHEMIAN) (Single)
Label – Independent
Apparitions – Morning Red Sky (Single)
Label – Independent
Arcade Stories – Opacity (Single)
Label – Independent
Bite Down – Wastage (Single)
Label – Prime Collective
blessthefall – mallxcore (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Everyone Dies in Utah – The Exchange (Single)
Label – Independent
Fit for a King – Lonely God (Single)
Label – UNFD
HELL CAN WAIT – Portraits Keep Dreaming (Single)
Label – Independent
HVSTE – Returnal (Single)
Label – Independent
Ghost!InTheWall – Cousin Of Death (Single)
Label – Blackgate Records
Iravera – Bowing Out (Single)
Label – Independent
Johanna Rey – Dancing on Lightning (Single)
Label – Ritosmith
Killstreak – Vessel of Rot (Single)
Label – Independent
Left to Suffer – Anon (feat. David Gunn of King 810 & Alejandro Aranda) (Single)
Label – ONErpm
Past Fiction – My Own Summer (Single)
Label – Independent
Pintglass – PINTGLASS BY PINTGLASS OFF THE ALBUM PINTGLASS (Single)
Label – Independent
Pissed On – CADAVER (Single)
Label – Independent
Royal Hearts – A Darker Path (Single)
Label – Independent
Sedative – Can’t Feel a Thing (Pt.2) (Single)
Label – Independent
Shane Driscoll – Still Points in a Ceaseless Rush (Single)
Label – Independent
Stain the Canvas – 554th (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
ten56. – PTY FCK (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music
The Crimson Armada – Eternal Thrall (feat. Devin Swank of Sanguisugabogg) (Single)
Label – TCA EMPIRE
The Word Alive – Eyes Above (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
Thousand Below – Palace of Dread (feat. Make Them Suffer) (Single)
Label – Rise Records
War Of Ages – Collapse (Rerecorded) (Single)
Label – Facedown Records
Darknet – exit.wound (g.h0st REMIX) (Single)
Label – Independent
Keep Close – Not Eternal (Single)
Label – Indepenent
Knosis – DOKUNUMA (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Lexi Layne – The Devil (feat. Chaney Crabb) (Single)
Label – Independent
Monochromatic Black – SPECTER (Single)
Label – Independent
Avatar – Captain Goat (Single)
Label – Black Waltz AB
Babymetal – Sony 3 (Single)
Label – Capitol Records
Bad Juju – Honey (Single)
Label – Independent
HANABIE. – Spicy Queen (Single)
Label – Sony Music Labels
Survive Said The Prohpet – Useless (feat. Knosis) (Single)
Label – Jisedai Inc.
The Narrator – Unbind Me (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Toby Peterson-Stewart – Thunderstruck (Single)
Label – Independent
Boneflower – Pomegranate (feat. Jeremy Bolm) (Single)
Label – Deathwish Inc.
Deadguy – Knife Sharpener (Single)
Label – Relapse Records
VICTIMBLAMED – Asphxiate (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Eighteen Visions – Until the Ink Runs Out
Label – Independent
Gridiron – Poetry from Pain
Label – Blue Grape Music
Retirement – Attention Economy
Label – Iron Lung Records
All 4 All – Refuse (EP)
Label – Fortress Records
Emily – When Tomorrow seems Forever (EP)
Label – Madafaka Records
Moral Bombing – promo 2025 (EP)
Label – Independent
Veisalia – Murmuration (Single)
Label – Headkick Records
MOUTH BREAKER – YOU’LL REMEMBER THA NAME (EP)
Label – Seek & Strike
Brainwave – Ill Intent (feat. Xile) (Single)
Lable – Existence Productions
Pig Pen – Rabid Beach (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records
TRISTE – WILTED (Single)
Label – Nothing Less Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Indifferent Engine – Speculative Fiction
Label – Church Road Records
Kusanagi – Paramnesia
Label – Ripcord Records
Planning for Burial – It’s Closeness, It’s Easy
Label – The Flenser
True North – Either Way, the Sun’s Exploding
Label – Out Of Line Music
ANGER PARTY – Open Up My Brain (EP)
Label – SIlent Cult
Blood Dealer – Designer Antichrist (EP)
Label – Independent
illuminati hotties – Nickel on the Fountain Floor (EP)
Label – Hopeless Records
The Skies Are Shifting – Mind Awake//Body Asleep: Act Three (EP)
Label – Independent
Big Problem – Grudge (EP)
Label – Counterculture Records
andthecanaryfell. – As The Ice Melts (EP)
Label – Post Party Rock Records
After Hour Animals – Bad Dream (Single)
Label – Independent
Awaken I Am – Afterlife (Single)
Label – SBG Records
Divide the Fall – Beyond the Surface (Single)
Label – Independent
Enabling Behaviour – Tastes of Metal (Single)
Label – Independent
In Her Own Words – Sugarcoat (Single)
Label – Thriller Records
Ill Defined – Passing Adore (Single)
Label – Independent
Lost in Hollywood – The Fire (Single)
Label – Independent
mirabelle. – it’s fine. (Single)
Label – Independent
never easy – where you’ll never find me (Single)
Label – Independent
Silent Theory – Made Me This Way (Feat. Ash Costello of New Year’s Day) (Single)
Label – Independent
So Much Hope, Buried. – Evanescent (Single)
Label – Rose Eyes
TOAST – Divine (Single)
Label – SHARPEN YER TEETH
TSS – Would you be my therapy? (feat. Windwaker) [Redux] (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Wake Me – Self Destruct (Single)
Label – Independent
Watersdeep – Echoes Calling (Single)
Label – Four Pillar Music Group
A Swift Farewell – Homeless (Single)
Label – Independent
Calva Louise – Impeccable (Single)
Label – Mascot Records
En Masse – taketwo (Single)
Label – Fever LTd.
Holy Fawn – Beneath A Lightless Star (Single)
Label – Independent
Rise Against – I Want It All (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Stray View – Vivid (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
The Amity Affliction – All That I Remember (Single)
Label – Independent
Yellowcard – Better Days (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music
Pendulum – Save The Cat (Single)
Label – Virgin Music Group
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
caroline – caroline 2
Label – Rough Trade Records
g11oss – Glass Body New Blood
Label – operating systems
Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
Label – Infectious Music
Goddess – Goddess
Label – Bella Union
Pavement – Pavements (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Label – Matador
PhaseOne – TERRANOVA
Label – UNFD
Swans – Birthing
Label – Young God Records
yeule – Evangelic Girl is a Gun
Label – Ninja Tune
Alissic – ARC 01: MAIDEN (EP)
Label – CLASSII
Drenched – Lost (EP)
Label – InHeartStudios
airshade – wandering (feat. limesdisx) (Single)
Label – from heart to heart
Daya – Infrared (Single)
Label – Independent
Electric Youth – Love in Slow Motion – From “North of Normal” Soundtrack (Single)
Label – Milan Records
Hollie Keniff – Moving Wings (feat. Goldmund & Harbors) (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
Insula Iscariot – Acceptance (Single)
Label – BLEAKHOUSE
J1nabae – PUMPIN’ (Single)
Label – Independent
Jasmine Clarke – FANTASY (Single)
Label – Independent
Lillvi – Wither Away (Single)
Label – Independent
Sxnctuary – embracing solitude (feat. 4everx & DIGITAL EXORCISM) (Single)
Label – Independent
timesgone – i just want u (Single)
Label – Independent
Ava Max – Lovin Myself (Single)
Label – Atlantic Records
Hotel Pools – Lagoon (feat. Lucy In Disguise) (Single)
Label – Wild Nature
Mint Julep – Holding On (Single)
Label – Unseen
Palmist – 2nd Place (Single)
Label – Independent
Seven Lions – Man Down (feat. YDG & Bella Renee) (Single)
Label – Ophelia Records
STS-51L – Swarm (Single)
Label – 3 AM
The Losing Score – I Don’t Like My Life Much Right Now (Single)
Label – Independent
The Midnight – Digital Dreams (Single)
Label – Utlera Records
quinnie – paper doll (Single)
Label – The System
The Casket Lottery – Nightsong (Single)
Label – Iodine Recordings
The New Division – Hurricane (Single)
Label – Independent
Bleach Lab – Close To the Flame (Single)
Label – Independent
Cullen Omori – Out of My Skin (Single)
Label – Independent
Forlorn – The Weight Of It all (digitalbreath.mp3 Remix) (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
GHOSTWOMAN – Alive (Single)
Label – Full Time Hobby
LAUREL – Fuck You To Death (Single)
Label – Independent
Leisure Hour – IF I COULD KILL YOU (I WOULD) (Single)
Label – PNWK Records
Lexie Liu – FFFFF (Single)
Label – Independent
Zanias – Cataclysm (Single)
Label – Fleisch Records