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
Death Defier – Blue (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: A neat blend of hardcore and punk influences, Death Defier deliver the catchy yet punchy “Blue”, that is packed with riffs which sink themselves into the ear, along with vocals that yearn to be shouted along to.
Dosser – Learned To Breathe (Single)
Label – Really Rad Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Maryland unit Dosser perfect their guitar led sound that is soaked in the stylings of 90s and 00s grunge. Each guitar melody is packed with warm distortion and expansive vocals, an absolute joy on the ear for those who will pass through “Learned To Breathe“.
Ill Defined – prayforsafetyprayfordeath//suspendedinanimation (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Ill Defined channel the harshest and heaviest side of metalcore revival on “prayforsafetyprayfordeath“. Without pausing to breathe, they craft one of the finest metalcore tracks this year on “suspendedinanimation” that will leave any listener absolutely hooked.
Drosera – Half-Life (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dobbin recommends: Floridan Drosera are a metallic hardcore unit stuck in permanent breakdown. “Half-Life” delivers gratification through blunt force riffage and swaggering rhythms. Their recent tracks Their 2024 songs have been quick beaters so far; we look forward to seeing how they might shape up together on a release.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
A Constant Knowledge of Death – Appendix I: Revisions & Annotations
Label – Independent
Chat Pile – Cool World
Label – Flenser Records
CRUCIFICTION – Will to Power
Label – Rise Records
Esprit D’Air – Perfect World
Label – Starstorm Records
Seven Hours After Violet – Seven Hours After Violet
Label – Sumercian Records
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Label – Nuclear Blast
Touché Amoré – Spiral in a Straight Line
Label – Rise Records
Vicious Rain – There Is Beauty in Letting Go
Label – Arising Empire
Vomit Forth – Terrified of God
Label – Century Media Records
Coping Method – Where Spirit Meets Bone
Label – FiXT
Actus Reus – MERC1LESS (EP)
Label – Independent
Botfly – Open Letters (EP)
Label – No Funeral Records
Attila – Dog Pack (feat. Sn8ke) (Single)
Label – Independent
Body Prison – HAPPY (Single)
Label – Independent
Blood Dealer – Crossfire (Single)
Label – COLOsound
Chaos Reigns – Sins of Success (Single)
Label – Independent
ChuggaBoom – If You Can’t Stand the Heat Get Out of the Microwave (Single)
Label – Independent
Dal Av & Dropout Kings – Lara Croft (Single)
Label – Hollowed Records
Dead Eyes – Better Off (Single)
Label – Independent
Deep as Ocean – Red Leaves (feat. Hand of Juno) (Single)
Label – Independent
DISSONANT TONGUE – Retrospection (Single)
Label – Independent
DREGG – Chaos Garden (Single)
Label – Independent
EVERGREEN MARS – Wishing Well (Single)
Label – Independent
Forbidden Order – There’s Something Left to Give (Single)
Label – Independent
Ice Nine Kills – A Work of Art (feat. Shavo Odadjian) (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Life Pilot – The Nerve (Single)
Label – Independent
Make Them Suffer – Mana God (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Major Moment – You’ll Never Know (Single)
Label – Independent
Monument of a Memory – THE FRAY (Single)
Label – Theoria Records
My Own Abyss – Memories (Single)
Label – Independent
On Hollow Ground – Nothing (To Save You) (Single)
Label – Independent
ONI – Deja Vu (Single)
Label – Ironshore Group
Sickret – Deleterious Drama (Single)
Label – darkTunes Music Group
So Far So Good – trophy corpse (Single)
Label – Independent
TheCityIsOurs – Freak Like You (Single)
Label – Arising Empire
Until I Wake – Renovate (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
Vexatious – Silence (Single)
Label – Independent
Wretched Tongues – Soulbreaker (Single)
Label – Independent
Acacia Ridge – Obstruction (Single)
Label – Independent
As I Lay Dying – Whitewashed Tomb (Single)
Label – Napalm Records
Distant – Torturous Symphony (feat. Matthew K. Heafy) (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Fit for an Autopsy – Lower Purpose (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
Made to Suffer – SICK (feat. Phil the Void) (Single)
Label – Independent
MAYFLOWER – Part of Me (Single)
Label – Independent
Onsight – Unveil (Single)
Label – Independent
Plini – Dog Days (Single)
Label – Independent
SHEORU – Ruin (Single)
Label – Independent
STOMACH BOOK – Circuit Bent (Single)
Label – Independent
Heavy//Hitter – Waste Of Life (Single)
Label – Blue Grape Music
Sailing Before The Wind – Fire Rainbow (Single)
Label – Independent
Shapethrower – Soiled Hands (Single)
Label – Independent
Stick To Your Guns – Severed Forever (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
VCTMS – kill.me_please (Single)
Label – Independent
PassCode – SKILLAWAKE (Single)
Label – MoooD Records
二口魔菜 Futakuchi Mana – Silent Repose (Single)
Label – Independent
HARDCORE RELEASES
Clusterfux – Defy
Label – Beer City Skateboards and Records
COCKRING – ALTRAR CALL
Label – Independent
METH RATS – ANGER UNANIMOUS
Label – Independent
SLIME NW – Outside Mentality
Label – Independent
Delta Hate – Mess We Made (EP)
Label – Independent
Faze – Big Upsetter (EP)
Label – 11PM Records
Left With None – A Higher Path (EP)
Label – Independent
Onryo – Hollow (EP)
Label – Blast Noise
Godbody – Fall Promo (EP)
Label – Independent
Miracle & Fading Signal – Split (EP)
Label – Independent
Kenya – No Hate & Sanity (Single)
Label – Husted Records
Punitive Damage – Hate Training b/w Baptism of Fire (Single)
Label – Convulse Records
Drosera – Half-Life (Single)
Label – Independent
Splitview – Lost (Single)
Label – Static Era Records
Thirdface – Midian (Single)
Label – Exploding in Sound Records
DEMISE – When Strength Turns To Torment (Single)
Label – Independent
HATESPEECH – Oppressor (Single)
Label – Sith Posse Records
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Delta Sleep – Blue Garden
Label – Sofa Boy Records
ENMY – ENMY
Label – FiXT
ENVY – Eunoia
Label – Temporary Residence Ltd.
lolitslea – Nothing Lasts Forever!
Label – Head Bitch Music
Real Friends – Blue Hour
Label – Midwest Trash
Stratejacket – Bad Start
Label – EDGEOUT Records
10 Years – Inner Darkness (EP)
Label – Mascot Records
Fixation – Speak in Tongues (EP)
Label – Indie Recordings
Sister Sleep – Phantom Threads (EP)
Label – Independent
Chrissy Costanza – VII (EP)
Label – Independent
Armor For Sleep – What A Beautiful World (Single)
Label – Equal Vision Records
Chase Atlantic – RICOCHET (Single)
Label – Fearless Records
falselove – echoes (Single)
Label – Independent
Hawthorne Heights – Life On Standby / Dissolve And Decay (Single)
Label – Skeleton Club
izzy reign – Living Dead Girl (Single)
Label – FiXT
Nowhere2run – Ant in the Afterbirth (feat. Loathe) (Single)
Label – Rise Records
Versus Me – Better Off Alone (Single)
Label – Independent
Angel Number – A Worthy Host (Single)
Label – Independent
Cane Hill – Drowning Therapy (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Ocean Grove – LAST DANCE (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Those Who Dream – IT SURROUNDS (Single)
Label – Independent
trauma ray – Bardo (Single)
Label – Dais Records
Zeta – Privilege (Single)
Label – Born Losers Records
Broken Head – Blue Collar Love (Single)
Label – La Carte Records
Can’t Swim – Worst Ain’t Over Yet (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Hands Like Houses – Hurts Like Hell (feat. Normandie) (Single)
Label – Civilians
happydaze – Out Of My Place (Single)
Label – Badhead Music
NVTURES GHOST – THE BLAME GAME (Single)
Label – Independent
Oversize – Fall Apart (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE
Zebrahead – Sink Like a Stone (Single)
Label – MFZB Records
Less Than Jake – Sunny Side (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
Planes Mistaken For Stars – Arrow (Single)
Label – Deathwish Inc.
Scowl – Special (Single)
Label – Dead Oceans
CHAI – Souleater (Single)
Label – 第2視聴覚室
PUREST FORM – Burn (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
ALEX & TOKYO ROSE – DEMONS & REVERB 2
Label – AKUMA RECORDS
Charli XCX – Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat
Label – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Holly Macve – Wonderland
Label – Loving Memory Records
Meemo Comma – Decimation Of I
Label – Planet Mu
Lettering Up Despite Great Faults – Reveries
Label – Independent
RÜFÜS DU SOL – Inhale/Exhale
Label – Reprise Records
TURQUOISEDEATH – Kaleidoscope
Label – Dismiss Yourself
Ashnikko – Halloweenie I-VI (EP)
Label – Parlophone Records Limited.
Rachel Bochner – Lovergirl (EP)
Label – Handwritten Records
street grease – BLOODBATH1 (EP)
Label – Venn Records
Satellite108 – Distant Romance (EP)
Label – Independent
Biig Piig – Decimcal (Single)
Label – RCA Records
Billie Marten – Crown (Single)
Label – Fiction Records
CYPARISS – EMPTY DREAMS 2 (Single)
Label – nxnameslxft
half•alive – Automatic (Single)
Label – Independent
In Explosions – diary (Single)
Label – droneshipx
Lowswimmer – Head Rolls Off (Single)
Label – Independent
Lucy In Disguise – Digital Campfire (Single)
Label – Innerworks Records
Westfalia – D-End (Single)
Label – Independent
XG – IYKYK (Single)
Label – XGALX
Halsey – I Never Loved You (Single)
Label – Columbia
iRis.EXE – USE ME (Single)
Label – Independent
Tayne – In This Trend (Single)
Label – MNRK
Clairo – Love Songs (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records
Fazerdaze – A Thousand Years (Single)
Label – Butterfly Records
Lisel – Rings (Single)
Label – Ba Da Bing!
Miranda and the Beat – Anxiety (Single)
Label – Earnest Jenning Record Co.