New Music Friday – November 24th, 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

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