Welcome to New Music Friday, with our wrap-up all the new metalcore, hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff. Check out our release calendar to keep an eye on this year’s upcoming releases!
STAFF PICKS
Krooked Tongue – Lupines (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Krooked Tongue return with stunning new “Lupines” that surrounds listeners in a dark euphoria from the opening note with its fuzzy guitars and ethereal vocals.
Dissonants – Grave Mind (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe Hammon recommends: Reawakening with 2022’s hardest drop, Dissonants lead the UK scene with the emotive, expressive and endearingly-catchy “Grave Mind”.
Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dallis recommends: Solitude, melancholy, and revelation bleed into each other throughout Narrow Head’s, “Moments of Clarity“, transporting the listener through a vast terrain of emotional spaces.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Chelsea Grin – Suffer in Hell [FULL REVIEW]
Label – OneRPM
Northlane – Obsidian (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Independent
Bonecarver – Carnage Funeral
Label – Unique Leader
Epica – The Alchemy Project
Label – Atomic Fire Records
Abbie Falls – Hell Is Other People (EP)
Label – Independent
Aklias – All My Sins (EP)
Label – Independent
DEADSKIN – What Do You Count to Fall Asleep? (EP)
Label – Thirteen Studios
Deficit – UNRESTRICTED: Vol.1 (EP)
Label – Independent
S’efforcer – Metamorphosis (EP)
Label – Theoria Records
Dearest – Retrogade (EP)
Label – Independent
Prevention – The Search (EP)
Label – Delayed Gratification Records
Thousand Below – Sabotage (Single) [ALBUM NEWS]
Label – Rise Records
Invent Animate – Elysium (Single)
Label – UNFD
Brand of Sacrifice – Exodus (Single)
Label – Blood Blast Distribution
Lionheart – HELL ON EARTH (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Teeth – EyesHornsMouth (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Pulse – Pieces Of Me (Single)
Label – Independent
As the Structure Fails – Final Mistake (Single)
Label – Independent
HellHounds – Darkness Follows (Single)
Label – Independent
Samurai Pizza Cats – Outcast (Single)
Label – Independent
Suffer Under Sorrow – Lightbringer (Single)
Label – Independent
Unseen Faith – Hindsight (Single)
Label – Prime Collective
In Flames – Foregone Pt. 2 (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Jared Dines – Core Theater (ft. Justin Bonitz from Tallah) (Single)
Label – Independent
Heriot – Profound Morality (Dislover Remix)
Label – Church Road Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
L.S Dunes – Past Lives [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Fantasy Records
The Comfort – Experience Everything. Live And Die. [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Greyscale Records
Pryti – Searching for Now Lost in Again [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Welcome To Pariahville
He Is Legend – ENDLESS HALLWAY
Label – Spinefarm Records
Real Friends – There’s Nothing Worse Than Too Late
Label – Pure Noise Records
Seething Akira – Nozomi
Label – FiXT
Soul Blind – Feel It All Around
Label – Other People Records
Jambinai – Apparition
Label – Bella Union
Young Culture – You Had To Be There
Label – Equal Vision
Void of Vision – CHRONICLES III: UNDERWORLD [FULL REVIEW]
Label – UNFD
envy – Seimei (EP)
Label – Independent
Scene Queen – Bimbocore Vol. 2 (EP)
Label – Hopeless Records
To Bloom – A Healing Kind of Pain (EP)
Label – Independent
Pierce the Veil – Emergency Contact (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Black Honey – Heavy (Single)
Label – Foxfive Records
Rising Insane – Chemicals (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records
Stain the Canvas – Puppet (feat. Nicholas Matthews of Get Scared) (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
State Champs – Outta My Head (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Designer Disguise – Abandon Ship (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
Emarosa – Again (Single)
Label – Out of Line
Hopes Die Last – Follow the Leader (Single)
Label – Independent
INLIGHTS – DOOMSDAY (Single)
Label – Independent
Set for Tomorrow – Soul Purpose (Acoustic) (Single)
Label – Blood Blast Distribution
Set to Stun – Enter Lust (Single)
Label – Tragic Hero Records
SHREZZERS – Gambit (Single)
Label – AVE Records
Sunrise Skater Kids – Boybandin’ Up (Single)
Label – Chodezilla Records
TIMELESS – Old Dogs, New Tricks (Single)
Label – Independent
We Were Giants – The Reaper (Reimagined) (Single)
Label – Ghost Killer Entertainment
Bones UK – Milk (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Halflives – sorry mom x (Single)
Label – Independent
Aburden – Believe Me (Single)
Label – Independent
East Capri – Wake n Redux (feat. Joshua O’Donnell of Banks Arcade) (Single)
Label – Independent
Skindred – Gimme That Boom (Single)
Label – Earache Records
Strawberry Girls – Prussian Gloom (Single)
Label – Independent
The Smashing Pumpkins – Beyond the Vale (Single)
Label – Thirty Tigers
Body Thief – Death, Drugs & Dancing (Single)
Label – Blue Swan Records
Royal Thunder – The Knife (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Records
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Moxy the Band – Dream Feeling [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent
Motifs – Remember A Stanger [FULL REVIEW]
Label – spikyfruits
Run the Jewels – RTJ Cu4trp
Label – BMG
Quadeica – I Didn’t Mean To Haunt You
Label – AWAL Recordings
Gold Panda – The Work
Label – City Slang
Fitz & the Tantrums – Let Yourself Free
Label – Warner Music
Yuna – Y5
Label – Independent
The Cool Greenhouse – Sod’s Toastie
Label – Melodic
Drowse – Wane Into It
Label – The Flenser
Crywolf – exuvium [OBLIVIØN Pt. II]
Label – Okami Records
Larkin Poe – Blood Harmony
Label – Tricki-Woo Records
Sarathy Korwar – KALAK
Label – The Leaf Label
Addison Grace – Things That Are Bad For Me (EP)
Label – Wally the Wall Shark
emie nathan – Deep Down Focus (EP)
Label – Independent
Jordana – I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking (EP)
Label – Grand Jury Music
ENOLA – Metal Body (Single)
Label – Fire Talk
Manchester Orchestra – No Rule (Single)
Label – Concord
Alex Capelli – Lose Lose (Single)
Label – Arista Records
High Command – Fortified By Blood (Single)
Label – Southern Lord
New Pagans – Karin Was Not A Rebel / Fresh Young Overlook (Single)
Label – Big Scary Monsters
Chasing Kites – Shiver (Single)
Label – Independent
M(h)aol – Asking For It (Single)
Label – TULLE
Humour – Good Boys (Single)
Label – So Young Records
Aja – Mental Break Up (Single)
Label – Eight9ten Music
Charlotte Plank – Lost Boys (Single)
Label – Black Butter
Kim Petras – If Jesus Was a Rockstar (Single)
Label – Republic Record
Lambrini Girls – Help Me I’m Gay (Single)
Label – Big Scary Monsters
Hatchie – NOSEDIVE (Single)
Label – Secretly Canadian
Dizzy – Barking Dog (Single)
Label – Communion Group
Fleet Foxes (feat. Tim Bernardes) – A Sky Like I’ve Never Seen (Single)
Label – Amazon
Fever Ray – Carbon Dioxide
Label – Rabid Records