New Music Friday – May 3rd, 2024

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

Omerta – Charade (feat. Vincente Void & Hash Gordon) (Single)
Label –
Blowed Out Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Nick recommends: Houston’s Omerta are trailblazing with latest single “Charade”, a five minute offering that provides a beyond worthwhile listening experience. Fusing elements of K-pop with the organized chaos of nu metal and industrial music, Omerta have proven once again that their creativity knows no bounds.

Slow Pulse – Mind Rot (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Austin’s Slow Pulse continue to show their brutality on brand new single “Mind Rot”, fast and furious in every aspect with pissed vocals make for a track that will adjust a few noses at their upcoming show with Capra.

Lowen – Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran (Single)
Label –
Church Road Records / Lay Bare Recordings
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Prog doomers Lowen are truly entering the big leagues: touring with Green Lung, recording with Lewis Johns, teaming up labels, and dropping their grandest track yet. Persian storytelling from vocalist Nina Saeidi incorporates both English and Farsi lyrics, giving Lowen a truly unique angle in today’s psych scene.

Demersal – Som Et Barn Mod Dit Bryst (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: A rare blackened track from the Danish screamo project is quiet a treat. Starting out windy and complex, the band switch it up a minute in, sinking into sullen majesty for a classic screamo outro that just keeps building. I promise the end will surpise you further – suffice to say I can’t wait to see how this might fit into the structure of a possible future LP.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Doom Bleach – Burden
Label – Independent

Enterprise Earth – Death: An Anthology (The Instrumentals)
Label – MNRK

HEAVYHEX – True to You
Label – Bridge Nine

Terminal Nation – Echoes Of The Devil’s Den
Label – 20 Buck Spin

Unearthly Rites – Ecdysis
Label – Prosthetic Records

Uzrah – The Scorching Gaze
Label – APF Records

Agriculture – Living Is Easy (EP)
Label –
The Flenser

Ba’al – Soft Eyes (EP)
Label – Independent

Iridium – Mortals (EP)
Label – Independent

Sails of Serenity – Eternal Echoes (EP)
Label –
Famined Records

Synestia & Disembodied Tyrant – The Poetic Edda (EP)
Label – Independent

Who They Fear – Sovereign (EP)
Label –
Independent

ClaymoreTX – Alter The Course Of Fate (EP)
Label – Independent

DeadVectors – Gravity Wave (EP)
Label –
Independent 

All That Remains – Divine (Single)
Label – Eleven Seven Music

Balance Breach – Million Miles Away (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

BROJOB – COCKSNATCHER (Single)
Label – Hollowed Records

Callous Minds – Mirage (Single)
Label –
Independent

Causality – Silicium (Single)
Label – Independent

Crystalview – 「.Luna:://Blossom.」(Single)
Label – Independent

Divide the Fall – Death of Me (Single)
Label – Independent

Fire From The Gods – Double Edged Sword (feat. Sylar) (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music

Gravemind – F.E.A.R. (feat. Jamie Hails) (Single)
Label – Grayscale Records

Foreign Hands – Horror Domain (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records

Our Hollow, Our Home – Veil Walker (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Montclair – This Fragile Life (feat. Balmora) (Single)
Label – Ephyra

PALESKIN – Near Heaven (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

Revnoir – The Pact (Single)
Label – Independent

RevengeinKyoto – Memories (feat. Candescent) (Single)
Label – Independent

Rise of the Northstar – Underrated (feat. Hyro the Hero) (Single)
Label – Atomic Fire

Saving Vice – Cry, Wolf (Single)
Label – Independent

Sleep Talk – Charged (Single)
Label – Independent

Southpaw FLHC – Face the Facts (feat. Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher (Single)
Label – Independent

Turn the Course – I Felt You Here (Single)
Label – Independent

Wiltwither – Become One (feat. Carson Pace of The Callous Daoboys) (Single)
Label – Independent

Windwaker – Breaking the Rules (Single)
Label – Fearless Records

ALGOR MORTIS – SEVERED (Single)
Label – Independent

Fuming Mouth – Daylight Again (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Heriot – Siege Lord (Single)
Label – Century Media

Starved – Exhales (Single)
Label – Independent

A Serpent’s Hand – Sentience (Single)
Label – Independent

Bodysnatcher – Human Disdain (Single)
Label – MNRK Records

Glass Tides – Pulling Teeth (Single)
Label – Independent 

Uppercut970 – Spit (Single)
Label – Chop City Studios

Wallowing – Restless Dusk I: The Anamnesis Hymn (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Ameonna – Cut Me, Crave Me… (Single)
Label – Independent

Bolu2 Death – La Espina (Single)
Label – Independent

Cancer Game – Obey (Single)
Label – Independent

Great American Ghost – Hymn Of Decay (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE 

Intrelock – Inertia (Single)
Label – Independent

HARDCORE RELEASES

Contention – Artillery from Heaven
Label – DAZE

Daggers – Chaos Magic (EP)
Label –
Independent

EGO – Rage/Blood (EP)
Label –
Independent

EXFIL – DEMO (EP)
Label –
Independent 

Titled – TITLED (EP)
Label – HARDNOCK NY

bulletsbetweentongues – Like Hell Flame (Single)
Label – Ephyra

Direct Threat – Forever Fighting (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records

Halo Bite – All Saints Pay (Single)
Label – Independent

No Future – Silent Majority / P.B.S (Single)
Label –
Iron Lung Records

Rest Assured – Peace (feat. Feticide) (Single)
Label – 317 Shows

Sect – New Low (Single)
Label – Southern Lord

Sick Solution – Sickies (Single)
Label – Independent

SPENT – The Search (Single)
Label – Grotto Audio

Tombflower – Bootlicker (Single)
Label – BB Records

Walled City – Plastic World (Single)
Label – Post Reality

Calcine – Back to Fight (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Squid Pisser – Splatter the Master (Single)
Label – SKiN GRAFT Records

SPEED – REAL LIFE LOVE (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records

Threshold – Cut You Down (feat. Condition One) (Single)
Label – Independent

Extinguish – One Less Enemy (Single)
Label – DAZE

Gumskab – Cut Your Teeth (feat. COOKED) (Single)
Label – Cheap Life Records

Lifecrusher – Suspension of Belief (Single)
Label – Side 2 Side Records / Inhumano Records

Cross Of Disbelief – Psychotic Indulgence (Single)
Label – Ephyra

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Cold Years – A Different Life
Label – MNRK

Franker Turner – Undefeated
Label –
Xtra Mile

Keith Wallen – Infinity Now
Label – Rise Records

Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Church Road Records

P.O.D. – Veritas
Label – Mascot Records

Demo Division – SUNKEN SKIN (EP)
Label –
 New Morality Zine

Down The Lees – Dity (EP)
Label – Off White House Records

Knives – What We See in Their Eyes (EP)
Label – Crash Records

Through Arteries – Laughs in Depression
Label – Independent

A Foreign Affair – Hollow (Single)
Label – SBG Records

Anchor & Hearts – Wasted Lives (We’re Ready To Take It Back) (feat. Another Now) (Single)
Label – Redfield Records

As December Falls – More To You (Single)
Label – Independent

Bellwether – 2002 (Single)
Label – Independent

Dal Av & Daedric – Racing the Parallel (Single)
Label – FiXT

Dead Eyes – Same Old You (Single)
Label – Independent

Halflives – everybody knows it (Apocalypse Version) (Single)
Label – Still Standing Group

Headsick – Through My Teeth (Single)
Label – Independent

HRTLSS – Hive (Single)
Label – Independent 

Onlap – Ghosts (feat. Lansdowne) (Single)
Label –
AFM Records

Point North – Bring Me Down (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

STARSET – Brave New World (Single)
Label –
Fearless Records

SHAKDE UK – G.O.D
Label – Independent

The Home Team – Roommates // Overtime (Single)
Label –
Thriller Records

Try Angel – The Answers (Single)
Label – Basement Records

Dream on Dreamer – F.E.A.R (Single)
Label – Independent

Gürl – Evil Twin (feat. Bronnie) (Single)
Label –
Circular Wave

Lizzy Farrall – MadHotel (Single)
Label – Independent

Sad Park – death (reimagined) (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Beauty School – Gloom (Single)
Label – Slam Dunk Records

Coping Method – Closing In (feat. REEBZ) (Single)
Label – FiXT

Gold Souls – Best of Me (Single)
Label –
MUSE Records

House of Protection – It’s Supposed to Hurt (Single)
Label – Red Bull Records

Yours Truly – Sour (Single)
Label – UNFD

LASTELLE – Life In Silhouettes (Single)
Label – Independent

Outlander – Want No More (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Lake Malice – Stop The Party (Toronto Is Broken Remix) (Single)
Label – Silva Screen Records

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

American Culture – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile
Label – Convulse Records

Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism
Label – Warner 

Former Hero – Roots (2018-20)
Label – birkham records

Nag – Fear
Label – Independent

Oakman – Violent Oblivion
Label – Rude Records

The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know
Label – Captured Tracks

Alaskan Tapes – Something Ephemeral (1-4) (EP)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group

k0d4m4 – 木魂 EP2 氷 (EP)
Label – Independent

Kee Avil – Spine (EP)
Label –
Constellation

Fast Blood – Sunny Blunts (EP)
Label – Independent

Mammoth Penguins – Here (EP)
Label – Fika Recordings

Airshade – your fears (Single)
Label – from heart to heart

Cage The Elephant – Metaverse (Single)
Label – RCA Records

Desert Sharks – Enjoy The Silence (Single)
Label – Substitute Scene Records

Helios – Wild Light (feat. Hollie Kenniff) (Single)
Label – Unseen

Holly Humberstone – Cocoon (feat. Medium Build) (Single)
Label – Universal Music

hxly xo – Floating (feat. shy tea) (Single)
Label – Ink & Wash

Kill Eva – Millions (feat. Stagger) (Single)
Label –
umamgmt

LLLL – See U (feat. Emma Aibara) (Single)
Label – Dreamstation

Llynks – Only Cure (feat. jacket.) (Single)
Label –
NRW Records

Timetrip 1989 – Childhood (Single) (Single)
Label – Independent

Thomas Powers – Empty Voices (feat. Julien Baker) (Single)
Label – Sensible Anomie

TURQUOISEDEATH – The Obelisk (Single)
Label – BREAKERS GANG

waterweed – Leave me alone (Single)
Label –
AVEX MUSIC CREATIVE INC

Caroline Polachek – Starburned and Unkissed (Single)
Label – A24 Music

Washed Out – The Hardest Part (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records

Charly Bliss – Nineteen (Single)
Label – Lucky Number Music

ITZY – No Biggie (Single)
Label – Warner Music

nekoAce – Hightail Reality (Single)
Label – eternityunderwater

Hippo Campus – Everything At Once (Single)
Label – Psychic Hotline

Jon Hopkins – RITUAL (evocation) (Single)
Label – Domino Recording

La Luz – I’ll Go With You (Single)
Label –
Sub Pop Records

Peter Bibby – Terracotta Brick (Single)
Label – Spinning Top Records

Hangwire – Farewell Song (Single)
Label – Independent

LAUREL – 45 Degrees (Single)
Label –
Communion Group