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
Graphic Nature – Fractured (Single)
Label – Rude Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Harry recommends: Graphic Nature continue a phenomenal year that has seen them release their stellar debut record, A Mind Waiting To Die, and perform at Reading Festival and alongside Skindred. “fractured“, the South East unit’s latest offering, is a raging track which combines all their best elements and sits instantly at the top tier of their discography.
Mirrorcell – dr0wn me (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Nisrin recommends: American nu-metalcore unit Mirrorcell are back with their third single “dr0wn me“. Industrial riffs, thumping beats and furious vocals make for a gnarly listen and see the trio continue to make strides.
utsyō\\ – Suffer (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Leaning on atmospheric ambience on new single “Suffer”, utsyō\\ continues to display their talent with their magical breakcore sound that yearns to be listened to on repeat.
INDEVTH – LURK (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Max recommends: After a busy back half to the year for INDEVTH, having not only undergone a headline run across the UK with Spitting Teeth, but further making an appearance at this year’s UK Tech-Fest, the UK heavy exports return with their first taste of new material in just over two years. Presumably starting this new era as they intend to go on, “LURK” is an electrifying exercise in blistering, pummelling, rhythmic ferocity that begs to be heard.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
Underdark – Managed Decline [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Church Road Records
Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions
Label – Profound Lore
Future Static – Liminality
Label – Wild Thing Records
Indistinct – Heart Prince
Label – HAW Studios
Tariot – Drag Me to Hell
Label – Independent
Pincer+ – Hunting God Tapes Vol. 2: Romance (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Greyscale Records
Continents – LIFELINE (EP)
Label – Independent
Deficit – UNRESTRICTED, Vol. 2 (EP)
Label – Independent
HELL CAN WAIT – 2023 (EP)
Label – Independent
Still Slayer – ALL HEART (EP)
Label – Independent
WRITHE – In Filth (EP)
Label – Filth Records
Aphasia – Buying Time (Single)
Label – Independent
Born a New – Seoul City (feat. Alex Taylor of Malevolence) (Single)
Label – Modern Empire Music
Brains Outward – Human Crisis (feat. Skyborne) (Single)
Label – Independent
Defocus – crooked mind (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
DISSONANT TONGUE – HATE//FEAR (Single)
Label – Independent
Half Me – Concrete Ceiling (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
hitbox – Devoid of Pulse (Single)
Label – Independent
IMMERSE – Static (Single)
Label – Adventure Cat Records
In Clover – Pandora (feat. Cauldron)
Label – Warrior Records
Morose – A Mistake From The Start (Single)
Label – Independent
PSYCHO-FRAME – BEATEN BEYOND IDENTIFICATION (feat. Don Campan of Waking the Cadaver) (Single)
Label – Swamp Sound
SAME PAINS – blur (Single)
Label – Independent
Sonnet of the Damned – BAD OMEN (Single)
Label – Independent
Sunflo’er – where do my children go at night? (Single)
Label – Independent
VIOLENT ENTITY – THE PARASITE MUST FEED (Single)
Label – Independent
Where Oceans Burn – Euphoria (Single)
Label – Prime Collective
Windchimes – Poverty Tourism (Single)
Label – Independent
Bleeding Through – On Wings of Lead (2023 Re-Recording) (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records
Frontières – Au revoir (Single)
Label – Independent
The Halo Effect – The Defiant One (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
FIESTER – 愛情當入樽 (Single)
Label – 288 Records
Tribe of Ghosts – FALSE GODS (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Force Of Denial – Times of Strife (EP)
Label – DBNO Records
SPIT OUT – Promo (EP)
Label – Independent
Break Them – Fall Behind (Single)
Label – Independent
Last Wishes – Up In Smoke (Single)
Label – DAZE
Losing Sight – There Will Be Blood (Single)
Label – Independent
Migrant Fury – Cockfight (Single)
Label – Independent
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
FinalBossFight! – FBF!
Label – Independent
Maelføy – Failures, Fears and Forgiveness
Label – Independent
Colourburn – Compromise in Colour (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Independent
Root Cause – Chuck It Out! (EP)
Label – Independent
To Octavia – Wonderland (EP)
Label – Independent
Brave New World – Space Between Silence: Phase III (EP)
Label – Indepenedent
Abandoned in Destiny – Echoes from the Past (Single)
Label – Independent
Alpha Wolf – Bring Back the Noise (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records
Arrow Minds – Street Fighter (Single)
Label – Dead Serious Recordings
Blackout Problems – GLOFS (feat. Rou Reynolds of Enter Shikari) (Single)
Label – Sony Music
Dead by April – Break My Fall (Single)
Label – Independent
Devil May Care – MANTRA ≈ Guide Me Into Misery (Single)
Label – Independent
F!TH – Another Day (Single)
Label – Independent
Glass Heart – Letting Go (Single)
Label – Independent
LYELL – CRUEL (Single)
Label – VERSION III
Ocean Sleeper – Heaven (Single)
Label – Independent
SAVE US – Haunt (Single)
Label – Year of the Rat Records
Sperling – November (Single)
Label – Uncle M Music
The Narrator – Purgatory (Single)
Label – Independent
Widow7 – WTF (Single)
Label – Oxide Records
HEALTH – DEMIGODS (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
Eden – Reside (Single)
Label – Independent
Superlove – NRG (Single)
Label – Rude Records
Northlane – Dante (Single)
Label – Independent
The Animal In Me – Cruel Summer (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
Ghost Woman – Hindsight is 50 / 50
Label – Full Time Hobby
Dirty Blonde – Favourite Record (EP)
Label – Independent
FlowerBoyDeMii – 2008 (EP)
Label – Independent
Trashiii – Aurora (EP)
Label – Dreamstation FM
Aeriu Ika – Ascend Through the Heavens (feat Aicry) (Single)
Label – Independent
Hollie Kenniff – By Firelight, On Autumn Nights (feat. Helios) (Single)
Label – Unseen
In Explosions – something from the past (Single)
Label – droneshipx
Lexie Li – delulu (Single)
Label – Nixie Music
Scattle – Venus (Single)
Label – Independent