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
Break Fifty – Pillbox // Under the Dirt (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Break Fifty double down on the promise of their debut EP with a double single. Their dynamic nu-core is served with spades of anger and a fresh idea at every turn.
Dreamwake – Heatwave (Single)
Label – UNFD
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Jonathan recommends: Dreamwake return with their second single this year, “Heatwave”. They once again deliver their seamless blend of synthwave motifs and intricately melodic progressive metalcore, supplemented heavily by contributions from saxophonist Jesse Molloy. The latest addition to UNFD’s roster, 2025 has exciting prospects for the group.
Since Torino – portree, 1992 (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: A pulled punch often hurts more than the real thing. Since Torino’s “portree, 1992” threatens to explode at any moment, but opts to ache instead, with its whispered vocals, stereo tapping, and later, tender trumpets. It’s a slow motion collision of midwest emo and Red House Painters-slowcore, and it works so well.
The Sun’s Journey Through The Night – No Light Left To Bear (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify
Jack Crosby-Griggs recommends: Abrasive and enigmatic as ever, No One & company continue to bridge the gap between black metal’s past, present and future. Like a bloodied fist desperately clawing at the door to its salvation to no avail, “No Light Left To Bear” presents a journey of brutality and despair best communicated through the howl of raw blackened catharsis.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Backslide – An Ocean Above
Label – Independent
Body Count – Merciless
Label – Century Media
Deep As Ocean – Dance With Death
Label – Independent
Dekaytah – Behind the Eyes There Is Nothing
Label – Independent
Distant – Tsukuyomi: The Origin
Label – Century Media
Light The Fire – Death Won’t Be The End Of Me
Label – Independent
Opeth – The Last Will and Testament
Label – Moderbolaget
Polar – Five Arrows
Label – Arising Empire
Traveller – Broken Home
Label – Independent
Xandria – Universal Tales
Label – Napalm Records
Out Mayr – Wasted Youth, Bright Your Future!
Label – Independent
After Smoke Clears – Intentions (EP)
Label – Independent
BLACKGOLD – Cypress Hill Mixtape (EP)
Label – Independent
Chain Wolf – Metal Punk (EP)
Label – Motorpunk Records
Claymore TX – Calamity (EP)
Label – Independent
Pound of Flesh – Heaven Sent (EP)
Label – Upstate Records
Pieces of Eden – Shards of Memory (EP)
Label – Ephyra
SIGNALS – Poetry Of Spite (EP)
Label – Independent
Omens Before Hysteria – Portrait Of God: Vol. I (EP)
Label – Independent
Alchemize – In Two Minds (Single)
Label – Year of the Rat Records
Artemis Rising – Low (Single)
Label – Independent
Aviana – FATHER (Single)
Label – SBG Records
Brains Outward – Hopeless (Single)
Label – Independent
Bury Tomorrow – What If I Burn (Single)
Label – Music For Nations
Casket Dealer – Eat Shit, Or Die Trying (Single)
Label – Independent
Chuggaboom – Fuck Around And Find Out (Single)
Label – Dead Serious Recordings
COLDSTATE – Psychosomatic (Single)
Label – Independent
Despite Exile – Cult Of The Dead (Single)
Label – Independent
Drown In Sulphur – Absentia (Single)
Label – Independent
Exist Immortal – By Design (Single)
Label – Seek & Strike
FallBright – The Emerald Door (Single)
Label – Independent
I Drink My Coffee Alone – Casino Supernenner (Single)
Label – Independent
Just Dust – Return to Dust (Single)
Label – Independent
KEYAN – Arrest (feat. Marcus Vik) (Single)
Label – Independent
Livealie – Honestly, This is the Death of Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Molotov Solution – Mortis Imperium (Single)
Label – Independent
Nothing Noble – damnation (feat. Nikki Simmons) (Single)
Label – Independent
NTH RD – Embrace (Single)
Label – Independent
Patient Sixty-Seven – Deck The Halls (Single)
Label – Oxide Records
Swarmed – Deterrent (feat. Eschalon) (Single)
Label – DeadHead Music
Thoughts In The Mind Of God – Wicked (Single)
Label – Independent
Two Sides of Me – ur the devil! (Single)
Label – Independent
Villain of the Story – Face It (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Berried Alive – ALEXANDER THE GRAPE (Single)
Label – Independent
Frontierer – Wearing Hell (Single)
Label – Independent
Misery Order – Dying Light (Single)
Label – Independent
Beyond Extinction – Tyranny (Feat. Alex Teyen) (Single)
Label – Independent
Coheed and Cambria – Searching for Tomorrow (SIngle)
Label – Independent
Forlorn – Spirit (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
GAOLED – Becoming (Single)
Label – Iron Lung Records
Killswitch Engage – Forever Aligned (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records
Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Slamwich – Grima (Single)
Label – Gore Fiesta
Wanderer – Glass Chewer (2024) (Single)
Label – Mummified Gasp
Mesker – Not Myself (SIngle)
Label – Independent
VCTMS – tourniquet. (Single)
Label – Independent
Spiritbox – Perfect Soul (Single)
Label – Rise Records
HARDCORE RELEASES
Human Animal – Sick Puzzle
Label – Surprise Attack Records
Deprivation Of Liberty – Soul Stripped Bare (EP)
Label – South Wales Collective
Fever Shack – Not Fuckin’ About (EP)
Label – Independent
Frayed Ends PC – Winter Promo ’24 (EP)
Label – Independent
KRUELTY – Profane Usurpation (EP)
Label – Closed Casket Activities
Lexan – Demo II (EP)
Label – Delayed Gratification Records
Sinner’s Table – Rituals of Torment (EP)
Label – Independent
Bare Minimum – Created to Suffer (Single)
Label – Independent
Cycle of Abuse – Taste the Steel (Single)
Label – Barbaric Brutality
Gridiron – Talk Real (Single)
Label – Blue Grape Music
Drosera – A Word From Our Sponsors (Single)
Label – Independent
Untamed – All Eyes On Me (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Coilguns – Odd Love
Label – Humus Records
Common Sage – Closer to;
Label – Equal Vision Records
Driveways – Tempest
Label – Independent
In Angles – The Light We Can’t Escape
Label – Independent
Ocean Grove – ODDWORLD
Label – SHARPTONE
Redhook – Mutation
Label – Adventure Cat Records
Hawthorne Heights & Emery – Split (EP)
Label – Skeleton Club
Joe Maxi – The Game (EP)
Label – Independent
Mallavora – Echoes (EP)
Label – Marshall Records
Awaken I Am – Turn to Stone (Single)
Label – SBG Records
Ben Rosett – GUARDIAN ANGEL (feat. Wiz_nicc) (Single)
Label – Spirit Vision Records
Brutus – Paradise (Single)
Label – Unison Drive Records
Dead Pony – Everything Burns (Single)
Label – music is fun
Death Goals – COVO (Single)
Label – Independent
deegie – Hard to Be a Man (Single)
Label – Independent
Etched in Embers – good friends (Single)
Label – Independent
TSS – DEAD! (feat. CVLTE) (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Krooked Tongue – Ember Mile (Single)
Label – Independent
L.S. Dunes – Paper Tigers (SIngle)
Label – Fantasy
Lilac Kings – Damn Daniela (Single)
Label – We Are Triumphant
LOWBORN – Meaningless (Single)
Label – Independent
Afterlove – Afterlove (Single)
Label – Heavy Collective
Izzy reign – Your Entertainer (Single)
Label – FiXT
Night Rider – The Dark (SIngle)
Label – Independent
Thornhill – nerv (Single)
Label – UNFD
Gold Souls – Eat Me Alive // tail_lights.ext (Single)
Label – MUSE Records
Hillhaven – This Time Tomorrow (Single)
Label – Independent
THE DEFECT – BROKEN MINDS (Single)
Label – FiXT
Architects – Whiplash (Single)
Label – Epitaph
Chidori – Armani Swiss Army Knife (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
36 – Exit All The Light
Label – 3six Recordings
Electric Youth – Innerworld (10th Anniversary Edition)
Label – Last Gang
Fake Eyes – Saccharine Scream
Label – Sunday Drive
Lowswimmer – Interpretations
Label – GROUP SPEED
Mondaze – Linger
Label – Universal Music
Queen of Nothing – The Pull (EP)
Label – Independent
Sunrot – Sunrot Body Void Split (EP)
Label – Independent
Akts – Shedding Shadows (Single)
Label – Independent
Brutalligators – Get Better (Single)
Label – How To Make Friends
Cream Blade – remembrance / u broke me (Single)
Label – Dreamstation
CYPARISS – BROKEN KING (Single)
Label – Independent
FlowerBoyDeMii – In Luv (Single)
Label – Mare Nostrum
Georgie Riot – Engage (Single)
Label – Riot Records
Glixen – lick the star (Single)
Label – Independent
Grayscale – Don’t Leave Me In The Dark (Single)
Label – Infield
kittyslvt – urheart.exe (Single)
Label – ANSTH Music
Panchiko – Ginkgo (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group
DEVILGIRL – flowers.mp3 (Single)
Label – laughingcorpse
Sister Ray – Animal Thing (Single)
Label – Royal Mountain Records
Sxnctuary – Alone (Single)
Label – Independent
Imogen Heap – Noise (Single)
Label – Megaphonic
Kai Cult – Vroom Vroom (feat. The Weird Vendetta) (Single)
Label – Independent
Sophie Jamieson – How do you want to be loved? (Single)
Label – Bella Union
Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Single)
Label – Warp Records
kittyangel – winter (feat. MRJay) (Single)
Label – Independent
Lambrini Girls – Love (Single)
Label – City Slang