New Music Friday – May 6th, 2022

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