New Music Friday – November 17th, 2023

Welcome to this week’s New Music Friday, our wrap-up of all the releases ranging from metalcore, post-hardcore, indie and alternative. Take a look at our release calendar to see what releases are due soon. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.

STAFF PICKS

With Sails Ahead – Darting Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Wearing the influence of such post-hardcore greats as Hail The Sun and Saosin on their sleeve, With Sails Ahead’s latest outing is a frenzied and tuneful slice of riffy, biting and mathy goodness.

Shooting Daggers – Not My Rival (Single)
Label – New Heavy Sounds
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Nisrin recommends: Daggers have a rager of a live-year – supporting Scowl, Zulu and Gel whilst being hand picked by Cult of Luna to open Beyond The Redshift. “Not My Rival” ends their year as part of a split single with Death Pill. Riotous punk as ever, it’s the quiet vocals that shine on this track as they’ve truly found their sound, and taken their production up several notches at the same time. 

Flight Mode – Hyperventilate (Single)
Label –
Tiny Engines
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Fight Mode are keeping consistent with EP number 3 in their third year. A sullen emotive nostalgia trip, “Hyperventilate” continues to demonstrate their knack for making a catchy song. They’ve also announced a signing to Tiny Engines, and an LP that compiles all three of their EPs into a full record. By rights, should put them on the Nth wave emo map where they belong.

Georgie Riot & Courtney Paige Nelson – Knock Out (Single)
Label –
Riot Records
(Spotify)

Joe recommends: Soft yet up-front vocals over drum and bass works a treat on “Knock Out”, succeeding as a high energy groover but has a quality at lower volumes too, as the vocals are produced carefully by Georgie Riot to preserve the natural delivery from Courtney Paige Nelson.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Racetraitor – Creation and the Timeless Order of Things [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Good Fight Music

Body Prison – Until Madness
Label – Independent

Deafheaven – Sunbather (10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster)
Label – Deathwish Inc

Deliquesce – Cursed With Malevolence
Label – DAZE Records

Disturbed – Divisive
Label – Reprise Records

FROMSKYTOABYSS – Kelu Pt. 1
Label – Independent

n0trixx – rejected
Label – NDC records

Torrential Rain – Digital Dreams
Label – Independent

Monuments – In Stasis (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Century Media Records

Aeternus – Philosopher (EP)
Label – Agonia Records

CELESTE –  Epilogue(s) (EP)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Escape The Madness – Continuation of Fear (EP)
Label – Independent

Massface – Revisions (EP)
Label – Independent

Oakheart – Tension Break (EP)
Label – Independent

Texas in July – Without Reason (EP)
Label – Rude Records

Knosis – The Eternal Doom (EP)
Label – Independent

Any Given Day – Limitless
Label – Arising Empire

August Burns Red – Up on the Housetop (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records

Depressant – like a hostage (Single)
Label – Independent

Escuela Grind – Ball and Chain (Single)
Label –
MNRK

Heriot – Soul Chasm (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Grayscale Season – Verified (Single)
Label – Independent

Imminence – Death by a Thousand Cuts (Single)
Label –
Independent

Many Eyes – Mystic Cord (Single)
Label – Independent

Misery Whip – Sounds of the Cave (Single)
Label – Independent

My Own Abyss – Without Control (Single)
Label – Independent

Neon Graves – If I Could (Single)
Label – Independent

Neverland In Ashes – Alien (Single)
Label –
Independent

Nonel – Kaaos (Single)
Label –
Independent

October Ends – DARK (Single)
Label –
UNFD

Sheridan – The Great Resist (Single)
Label –
Independent

Shokran – Tefnut: The Greatest Drought (Single)
Label – Independent

Softspoken – Oblivion (Single)
Label – Independent

Tenside – Impending Doom (Single)
Label –
IvoryTower Records

The Darkest Moment – To an End (Single)
Label – Prime Collective

The Northern – Drown (Single)
Label – Independent

Better Lovers – Two Alive Amongst the Dead (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records

Laurentian – CALL ME ON 666 LAURENTIAN (Single)
Label – Church Productions

Lifesick – Every Unpleasant Emotion (Single)
Label – Metal Blade Records

Sunfall – Reapers (feat. Aaron Matts of ten56.) (Single)
Label –
Out of Line

Bloom – Maybe in Another Life (Single)
Label – Pure Noise

Berried Alive – CANDY CANE (Single)
Label – Independent

HARDCORE RELEASES

GASKET – Dull The Needle
Label – Blue Grape

CITRUS – EP PROMO (EP)
Label – Bustin Head Records

Malignant – The Defragmentation Begins… (EP)
Label – Independent

SCALP – Live Extremity (EP)
Label – Creator-Destructor Records

Suffocate Faster – This Is the Way, Vol. 2 (EP)
Label – Smartpunk Records

FreeHowling – Blazed (Single)
Label –
Independent

Nailed Shut MA – PURIFY (Single)
Label –
Independent

Stab – Parasites (Single)
Label –
Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Set the Sun – At War
Label – Independent

Stain the Canvas – All Fine / eniF llA (Deluxe Edition)
Label – InVogue Records

Avalanche Effect – Of Wired Hears And Artificial Prophecies (EP)
Label – Easthaven Records

Wind Walkers – What if I Break?
Label – Independent

DARLAH – Human Nature (EP)
Label – Independent

FOXCULT – THE INDIGO FAULT (EP)
Label – Independent

Post Profit – Self Defeater (EP)
Label – Sharptone Records

Save Face – Save Face …Found Dead at the Crime Scene (EP)
Label – Independent

TRiDENT – Dream Up (EP)
Label – 松山制作委員会

About Monsters – Pushing Boundaries (feat. Aaron Steineker) (Single)
Label –
Independent

Anchors & Hearts – Deathlist (Single) (Single)
Label – Redfield Records

Being as an Ocean – Flesh and Bone (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

Bitter Kisses – Kamikaze (Single)
Label –
Independent

Blue Eyed Giants – Everyone Is A Slave To Something (Single)
Label –
Famined Records

Capstan – Bloom (Single)
Label –
Fearless Records

Daedric – 115 (Single)
Label – FixT

East Capri – Veil Vision (Single)
Label – ECPHZ2CO

Fifth Dawn – The Day Brings (Single)
Label –
Marshmallow Pavement

Portside – Icarus (Single)
Label – Independent

Real Friends – When You Were Here (Single)
Label – Pure Noise

RedHook – Tourist (Single)
Label – UNFD

The New Age – Song and Dance (Single)
Label –
Independent

Varia – Know Where I Belong (Single)
Label –
Independent

Glass Tides – Cruel World (Single)
Label – Independent

HEALTH – UNLOVED (Single)
Label –
Loma Vista Recordings (Single)

Fame on Fire – Greedy (Single)
Label –
Hopeless Records

Finch – Cross My Heart (Single)
Label –
Jess Jarlow

Nothing – Guilty Of Everything 10 Year B Sides (Single)
Label –
Relapse Records

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Former Hero – small gifts vol. 4 // fin
Label – birkham records

Iron & Wine – Who Can See Forever Soundtrack
Label –
Sub Pop

Red Velvet – Chill Kill
Label – SM Entertainment

Bad Suns – Infinite Joy (EP)
Label – Epitaph

Bilk – RNR (Single)
Label –
Scruff of the Neck Records

Black Polygons – Paruline (Single)
Label – Independent

Eighty Ninety – Ruins (Single)
Label –
Independent

IOTA – Medicine (Single)
Label –
Independent

Mint Julep – All Summer Long (Single)
Label – Unseen

Pile – Only For A Reminder (Single)
Label –
Exploding In Sound Records

southstar – Cover Up My Face (Single)
Label –
B1 Recordings