This week’s wrap-up of all the new metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff.
STAFF PICKS
The GFM Band – Framing My Perception (Single)
Label – Rockfest Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: With their final release ahead of their upcoming EP, “Framing My Perception“, GFM show why they’ve caught the eyes of many with their melodic lyricism, catchy choruses and heavy riffs
The Bobby Lees – Dig Your Hips (Single)
Label – Ipecac Recordings
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: The Bobby Lees new track drips with swagger and attitude, combined with a crunching bass line and toe-tapping riffs. The Bobby Lees‘ upcoming EP, Hollywood Junkyard, will be one not to miss.
Bastions – Acres of Love (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dallis recommends: Seven years on since their departure, Bastions pick up where they left with “Acres of Love“. An ambience of mourning and grief blended with their darkened hardcore creates a track that swings for the emotions.
sonhos tomam conta – maladaptive daydreaming
Label – Longinus Recordings
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: An internet darling supercharging the shoegaze-emo community, sonhos tomam conta‘s new album features new confidence in its vocal performances and apologetic fuzziness. It’s the kind of milky, half-remembered rock dreamscape that could only come direct from the astral plane – or perhaps simply a prolific bedroom producer’s incomprehensible lo-fi setup.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Windwaker – Love Language [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Fearless Records
Silverstein – Misery Made Me [FULL REVIEW]
Label – UNFD
Ibaraki – Rashomon [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Nuclear Blast
Terror – Pain Into Power
Label – Pure Noise Records
Upon A Burning Body – Fury
Label – Seek & Strike
King Yosef – The Ever Growing Wound
Label – BLEAKHOUSE
Fozzy – Boombox
Label – Mascot Records
Manafest – I Run With Wolves
Label – Independent
Halestorm – Back From The Dead
Label – Atlantic Recording
Syberia – Statement on Death
Label – Metal Blade Records
Heists – Troubled Souls
Label – Independent
Nocturnal Bloodlust – Argos
Label – Maverick, Inc.
Sentinels – Collapse By Design (Instrumental)
Label – SharpTone Records
GILT – Conceit (EP)
Label – Smartpunk Records
Chamber – Carved In Stone (EP)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Memphis May Fire – Your Turn (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Suicide Silence – Thinking in Tongues (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Varials – The Cycle Of Violence: Chapter 1 (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Stray From The Path – III (Single)
Label – UNFD
156/Silence – A Past Embrace (Single)
Label – SharpTone Records
Thousand Below – Venenosa (Single)
Label – SHADE music group
CABAL – Magno Interitus (ft. Joe Bad of Fit For An Autopsy) (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Dream Awake – Half-Life (Single)
Label – Independent
Jason Richardson x Luke Holland – p00mbachu (Single)
Label – Independent
The Algorithm – Oracle Machine (Single)
Label – FiXT
Baest – Creature (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Candy – Human Condition Above Human Opinion (Single)
Label – Relapse Records
Chaosbay – All This Beauty Can’t Be Real (Single)
Label – Circular Wave
Earth Caller – I Will Return (Single)
Label – Independent
Organectomy – Concrete (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records
Alestorm – P.A.R.T.Y. (Single)
Label – Napalm Records
Floya – The Hymn (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
LIAR – Hysteria (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Stand Atlantic – F.E.A.R.
Label – Hopeless Records
Three Days Grace – Explosions
Label – RCA Records
Otoboke Beaver – Super Champon
Label – Damnably
Motor Sister – Get Off
Label – Metal Blade Records
Pure Reason Revolution – Above Cirrus
Label – InsideOutMusic
The Juliana Theory – Still The Same Kids (EP)
Label – Equal Vision Records
The Comfort – Love Is A Dying Plant (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records
Dance Gavin Dance – Pop Off! (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Vampires Everywhere! – Tear Me Down (Single)
Label – Dark Kingdom Records
The Chats – 6L GTR (Single)
Label – Bargain Bin Records
Sunsleeper – Currents (Single)
Label – Rude Records
Boys of Fall – Three Cheers for Five Years (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
Anavae – Sacrifice (Single)
Label – Ninetone
DECLINE – LIAR (Single)
Label – Independent
Slowly Slowly – Forget You (Single)
Label – UNFD
Beauty School – Nightwalker (Single)
Label – Slam Dunk Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE RELEASES
Ufomammut – Fenice [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Neurot Recordings
Chase Atlantic – BEAUTY IN DEATH (DELUXE EDITION)
Label – Fearless Records
Sigrid – How To Let Go
Label – Universal Music
Simple Plan – Harder Than It Looks
Label – Independent
The Feeling – Loss. Hope. Love
Label – Universal Music
Arcade Fire – WE
Label – Columbia
Warpaint – Radiate Like This
Label – Virgin Music UK
Alison Wonderland – Liner
Label – Universal Music Australia
AWOLNATION – My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers & Me
Label – Better Noise Music
Sunflower Bean – Headful of Sugar
Label – Mom+Pop
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
Label – Sub Pop Records
Sharon Von Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Label – Jagjaguwar
Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous
Label – Matador
K-POP RELEASES
LE SSERAFIM – FEARLESS
Label – Source Music
ALICE – POWER OF LOVE (Single)
Label – HUNUS Entertainment