New Music Friday – November 3rd, 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

heaven // alone cognitive decline (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Starting with a frankly girthy guitar tone, “cognitive decline” is a solid alt/rock metal track from a budding group, with just one other song out (though you wouldn’t guess that from the quality production). The vocals dance between nonchalance, passionate and screamed. The Deftones inspiration is clear and always welcome, but there’s a clear sheen of new-wave Loathe to the sound as well.

Hell Can Wait Drowning In You (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Harry recommends: Dropping their final single of 2023, HELL CAN WAIT mark themselves as a staple of melodic hardcore in its current era. Forceful and impassioned vocals steeped in a charged and impressive instrumental performance makes it difficult to not see HELL CAN WAIT doing grand things in 2024.

The Throwaway Scene Who Else Is in the Room (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Jonathan recommends: With “Who Else Is in the Room“, The Throwaway Scene tread a fine line of heaviness and accessibility, joining groups like Static Dress in revitalizing a throwback post-hardcore sound with a modern twist.

Midbooze Double 69 (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: After dropping EP Raytracer, Vol.1 in October, Midbooze makes a quick return with a banger of a track in the form of “Double 69“. Blending their style of breakcore, dance and jungle with their unique Playstationcore styling, Midbooze delivers a bassy track that continues to build up a standout discography.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

American Arson – Sand & Cinder, Tide & Timber [FULL REVIEW]
Label Facedown Records

Bad Wolves Die About It [FULL REVIEW]
Label –
Better Noise Music

Cauldron – Suicide in the City [FULL REVIEW]
Label – The Coming Strife

Dying Wish – Symptoms of Survival [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Sharptone Records

Fuming Mouth – Last Day of Sun [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Nuclear Blast

Silent Planet – SUPERBLOOM [FULL REVIEW]
Label – UNFD

Ice Nine Kills – Welcome To Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2 (Orchestral Version)
Label Fearless Records

Cerebral Cortex – Synthetic Plague
Label – Psycore

ChuggaBoom – Death Pledge (Re-Mortgaged)
Label – Dead Serious Recordings

Sugar Spine – Emerald
Label – Independent

Spiritbox – The Fear of Fear (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Rise Records

Atreyu – A Torch in the Dark (EP)
Label – Spinefarm Records

Centralia – Let Yourself Fall (EP)
Label – NMM Records

NTH RD – Casualty (EP)
Label – Independent

UNI/VS – Something More (EP)
Label – Independent

Eschalon – Helios (feat. Neema Askari) (Single)
Label – Independent

ACCVSED – Unraveled (Single)
Label – Independent

Allt – The Orphan Breed (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records

Body Prison No Love (Single)
Label –
Independent

Crimson Clean Sweep – THEAPPLEGREWROTTEN (feat. Golds) (Single)
Label – Independent

Dead Cassette If Love Was Lost (Single)
Label –
Independent

Grayscale Season – Verified (Single)
Label – Independent

Foreign Hands Conditioned for a Head-On Collision (feat. Olli Appleyard) (Single)
Label
Sharptone Records

For All I Am – Reset (Single)
Label – Independent

Lost Trees Nightshade (Single)
Label
Independent

Tidebringer Hatewatching (Single)
Label – Independent

Single Wound Whisper In The Wind (Single)
Label –
Independent

Weightless BLOODSUCKER (feat. Jack Bergin of Void of Vision) (Single)
Label Independent

ZOMBIESHARK! Loxosceles on the Isosceles (feat. Soulkeeper) (Single)
Label Theoria Records

Ice Sealed Eyes Deadweight (Single)
Label –
Independent

Mountain Caller Dead Language (Single)
Label
Church Road Records

Racetraitor Pastoral Monolith (feat. Dennis Lyxén) (Single)
Label –
Good Fight Music

Eighteen Visions Violence Surrounds (Single)
Label
Independent

Future Static Chemical Lobotomy (Single)
Label –
Wild Thing Records

In Your Grave Callous (Single)
Label –
Independent

Unprocessed Glass (Single)
Label
Independent

DARKO US Rampage (Single)
Label –
Independent

DeadVectors The Shadows Become Us (Single)
Label –
Independent

LUNE Left Behind (feat. Garrett Russell) (Single)
Label
Resist Records

Negatives Body Hammer (Single)
Label –
Independent

Paleface Swiss The Gallow (Single)
Label –
Independent

Reflections Scapegoat (Single)
Label
Independent

Underneath BOMBS (Single)
Label
 Syrup Moose Records

HARDCORE RELEASES

Paint It Black – Famine
Label – Revelation Records

Last Gasp Who Wants to Die Tonight?
Label –
WAR Records

Dayz Lost Demo 2022 Redux (EP)
Label –
Independent

Instill Reasons To Remember (EP)
Label –
Extinction Burst

Mugshot – Cold Will (EP)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Tripper – People Die Every Day (EP)
Label – Independent

Backfire The Last Time (EP)
Label –
Independent

Ozone Shutting You Down (EP)
Label –
Independent

Knuckledragger Different Breed… (EP)
Label –
Independent

xNomadx On Skylines of Ember (EP)
Label – Ephyra

Dolores Earth Wounds (Single)
Label –
Independent

Going Off – Servant to the Skin (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Rough Justice Backwards Mask (Single)
Label –
MLVLTD

Split Image Death Awaits (Single)
Label –
Low Budget Productions

Chemical Fix Bloodlust (Single)
Label –
Independent

Fucked Up Spot the Difference (Single)
Label –
Merge Records

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Sugar Horse – Truth or Consequences, New Mexico [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Fat Dracula Records

Night Rider – Night Rider
Label – Independent

Until I Wake – Inside My Head (Deluxe)
Label – Fearless Records

Youth Fountain – Together in Lonesome
Label – Pure Noise Records

Pendulum – Anima (EP)
Label – Virgin Music Group

Static Dress – vol.3 (EP)
Label – Roadrunner Records

Straight Shot Home – The Reminisce Collection (EP)
Label – Independent

Abandoned in Destiny – Watch the World Burn (Single)
Label – Independent

Dream Drop – Nudes (Single)
Label – Fifth Island Music

Fauxtrot – Too Close (Single)
Label – Independent

Half Hearted – Love Mistakes (Single)
Label – Independent

Lø Spirit Wild Things (Single)
Label –
Misfit Radio

LOVEBREAKERS Autumn Town (Single)
Label –
Gunner Records

Nevertel FAR AWAY (Single)
Label –
Independent

Novelists – Prisoner (Single)
Label – Out of Line Music

The Last Martyr Burn It Down (Single)
Label –
Independent

Green Day Look Ma, No Brains! (Single)
Label Reprise Records

Semaphore Everlong (Single)
Label –
Si Doux Productions

Normandie Ritual (Single)
Label –
Easy Life Records

TRiDENT twinkle (Single)
Label –
松山制作委員会

Written by Wolves BURN (Single)
Label –
Independent

Julia Wolf Burning House (Single)
Label –
girls in purgatory

Momma & Narrow Head Sunday / Medicine (Single)
Label –
Lucky Number Music

Oversize Daretomove (Single)
Label –
Church Road Records

Save Face Girl’s Not Grey (Single)
Label –
Counter Intuitive Records 

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Hxly xo Synthetic Fauna
Label
Dreamstation

Laura Dre Moving Space II: Twilight
Label –
Independent

Liza Anne Utopian
Label – AntiFragile Music

ENOLA All Is Forgiven (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label –
Hell Beach

FlowerBoyDeMii Sensory Overload (EP)
Label –
Independent

kirakura & endless regrets Gure (EP)
Label –
dreamstation

Manapool Mana No Uta // The Song of Mana (EP)
Label –
Independent

plenka just want to feel (EP)
Label –
Independent

Snail Mail Valentine (Demos) (EP)
Label –
Matador Records

Dixon Dallas Something To Feel (Single)
Label
Independent

Olivia Rodrigo Can’t Catch Me Now (Single)
Label Geffen Records

Exploring Birdsong Diamond Eyes (Single)
Label –
Long Branch Records

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns What I Won’t Do (Single)
Label
Independent

Broadside Bleu (Single)
Label
Sharptone Records

Toronto Is Broken Anaesthesia (feat. Sabotage & Fight The Fade) (Single)
Label –
FiXT

8485 goeblog (Single)
Label –
Independent

kittyangel Asking (feat. MRJay)
Label –
Independent

STAY FREE Creature Fear (Single)
Label –
Independent

Varsity Bought the Farm (Single)
Label –
Independent