New Music Friday – October 18th, 2024

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 

Aggrieved – Plague Bearer (feat. Overpower) (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Packed with juicy metallic and thrashy riffs and blistering moments to throw down to, Aggrieved‘s latest single “Plague Bearer” sees a grand feature from Overpower. It’s an absolute must listen in this week’s releases of you’re a fan of heavy shit.

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – Sisyphean Cruelty (Single)
Label –
Redscroll Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean are back with their crushing and hellish version of sludge metal that conjures haunting, suffocating soundscapes unlike much else. Opening with shrill feedback and unrelenting to it’s end, “Sisyphean Cruelty” is as bleak as it’s namesake.

Signals – Permanence (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: SIGNALS invoke an intense and emotive strain of metalcore that has recently been seen from the likes of Boundaries and 156/Silence. They’re adding their own level of sheer heaviness and aggression on “Permanence” that should see SIGNALS be the next Aussie unit to break through the ranks.

TNL VZN – Allodynia (Single)
Label –
Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Once again showcasing their gorgeous blend of shoegaze and grunge, TNL VZN’s riffs are coated in melancholy, and weave through the track to create a tapestry of influences and sounds. It’s all tied together by Eva Beard‘s potent and soaring vocals.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Common Wounds – All Night Blood
Label –
Protagonist Music

Damnations Domain – A World Turned Black
Label –
Independent

Dawnwalker – The Unknowing
Label –
Independent

DREGG – The Art of Everything
Label –
Independent

FÓRN – Repercussions of the Self
Label –
Persistent Vision

Swallow The Sun – Shining
Label –
Century Media

Underneath – It Exists Between Us
Label –
Independent

Veiled – SE//CT
Label –
Seek & Strike

Weeping – Spiritual Barbarism
Label –
Independent

Tribe of Ghosts – CITY
Label –
Independent

Against the Sun – Light (EP)
Label –
Independent

Clot – Dehiscence (EP)
Label –
Independent

Clot – Hostility (EP)
Label –
Independent

Death Goals & Dreamwell – Death Goals // Dreamwell Split (EP)
Label –
Prosthetic Records

Ocean Sleeper – Maybe Death Is All I Need (EP)
Label –
BMG

Ruins of Perception – Ballads ov Blood (Instrumentals) (EP)
Label –
Seek & Strike

Sevalynn – The Vile (EP)
Label –
Independent

Stray View – Displace/Erase (EP)
Label –
Hopeless Records

TERSEYA – Инициалис (EP)
Label –
Independent

WHITE ROSE – Everything Will Be Okay. (EP)
Label –
Independent

Tumour & Burn In Hell – Split (EP)
Label –
Reason and Rage Records

CANDY – Flipping (EP)
Label –
Triple B Records

Orion…Once Again – Lost you in the : season (EP)
Label –
The Coming Strife

ACCVSED – Never Enough (Single)
Label –
Arising Empire

Avalanche Effect – Let Go (Single)
Label –
Independent

AVIIRA – In the Rain (Single)
Label –
Independent

BLACKGOLD – Insane in the Brain (feat. Benji Webbe) (Single)
Label –
Independent

Gutter King – Killswitch (Single)
Label –
Independent

Haste the Day – Burn (Single)
Label –
Solid State Records

Heartlay – Eye for an Eye (Single)
Label –
An Exile

Indigo Ice – Death Diva (Single)
Label –
Independent

Kin Corruption – Slaves (Single)
Label –
Independent

OBEYER – Witness (Single)
Label –
3DOT Recordings

Polar – A New Mentality (Single)
Label –
Arising Empire

SWARMED – Lost in the Dream (Single)
Label –
Independent

Thin the Herd – Drown Me Out (Single)
Label –
Independent

Traveller – Underachiever (Single)
Label –
Independent

Waves in Autumn – Wolves in the Room (Single)
Label –
Independent

Defences – Breathe It In (Single)
Label –
Long Branch Records

Full Of Hell & Andrew Nolan (Single)
Label –
Closed Casket Activities

Harakiri for the Sky – With Autumn I’ll Surrender (Single)
Label – AOP Records

SIFYN – The Best Things (Single)
Label –
New Industry

The Crimson Armada – Ancient Call (Single)
Label –
Independent

Defects – Goliath (Single)
Label –
Mascot Records

Glass Tides – I Set the Fire (Single)
Label –
Independent

Hillhaven – Temple & Tomb (Single)
Label –
Independent

Ingrown – ENEMY (Single)
Label –
Closed Casket Activities

Lifesick – Loved by None (Single)
Label –
Metal Blade Records

Overthrone – TYRANTS (Single)
Label –
Independent

Saltwound – Walking The Blade (Single)
Label –
SHARPTONE

The Hate Project – Deep in the Mire (Single)
Label –
Seek & Strike

Arcaeon – Celestial (Single)
Label – Independent

Holy Blade – Beyond (Single)
Label –
Closed Casket Activities

Sailing Before The Wind – Monochrome Autumn (Single)
Label –
Independent

Slaughter to Prevail – Behelit (Single)
Label –
Sumerian Records

HARDCORE RELEASES

Prejudize – Echoes of Life (EP)
Label –
Husted Records

Destined To Burn – Bound in Sorrow (EP)
Label –
Hypaethral Records

S.H.IT. – For A Better World (EP)
Label –
Iron Lung Records

Shades of War – Out of Destruction (EP)
Label – KOTP Records

xChokex & TRUExFEELING – Split (EP)
Label – Default

JEWELTONE – Visions of Heaven (EP)
Label –
Triple Hammer Records

SNAKE EYEZ – END (EP)
Label –
Gardenia Recordings

Arrkaim – Doppelgänger (Single)
Label – SVETLY Records

Pest Control – Year of The Pest (Single)
Label – Quality Control HQ

A.N.T.I – Test of Time (Single)
Label –
darknet.media

Firestarter – Tear Stained Youth (ft. Porter) (Single)
Label –
Hardlore Records

No Cure – Purple Heart (Single)
Label –
Blaythe Steuer

Mile End – No Excuse (Single)
Label –
NEW MORALITY ZINE

Whispers – Retribution (Single)
Label –
Flatspot Records

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Fight the Fade – Isolationist
Label –
FiXT

Gun – Neo Notown
Label –
Independent

High Vis – Guided Tour
Label –
Dais Records

HEALTH – RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION
Label –
Loma Vista Recordings

PVRIS – F.I.L.T.H (EP)
Label –
Hopeless Records

Statefall – Citizen (EP)
Label –
Independent

The Armed – Everlasting Gaze (EP)
Label –
Sargent House

Those Who Dream – Therapy Machine (EP)
Label –
Independent

Asking Alexandria – Where Do We Go from Here? The Remixes (EP)
Label –
Better Notice Music

Destined To Burn – Bound in Sorrow (EP)
Label –
Hypaethral Records

Stateside – Songs To Remember You By (EP)
Label –
Pure Noise Records

Airports – BLOODRUSH (Single)
Label –
Independent

Anberlin – High Stakes (feat. Matty Mullins) (Single)
Label –
Equal Vision Records

Bad Assumption – With Flying Colors (Single)
Label –
Independent

CHAI – FPS (Single)
Label –
第2視聴覚室

Dream State – Bloom (Single)
Label –
Independent

In Her Own Words – 96 Hours (Single)
Label –
Thriller Records

L.S. Dunes – Machines (Single)
Label –
Fantasy

Retail Parks – Love Unknown (Single)
Label –
Independent

Softspoken – Throw Me Your Roses (Single)
Label –
Theoria Records

Underoath – Survivor’s Guilt (Single)
Label –
MNRK

WARGASM (UK) – Circle Pit // Bad Seed (Single)
Label –
Slow Play

&TEAM – Feel the Pulse (Single)
Label –
HYBE Labels Japan

Cold Culture – Deep End (feat. Siamese) (Single)
Label –
Heavy Collective

Fallweather – Bathe in Blood (Single)
Label –
Independent

Breaking Benjamin – Awaken (Single)
Label –
BMG

Dead Icarus – 1 Million Days (Single)
Label –
MNRL

Lambrini Girls – Big Dick Energy (Single)
Label –
City Slang

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Home Improvements (Single)
Label –
Better Noise Music

anomic333 – where our hearts meet (Single)
Label –
Independent

Clearbody – In Another Life (Single)
Label –
Static Era Records

North Atlas – Dead Tree (Single)
Label –
Independent

Poppy – the cost of giving up (Single)
Label –
Sumerian Records

unpeople – the garden (Single)
Label –
SHARPTONE

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

American Football – American Football (Covers)
Label –
Polyvinyl

Batts – Just My Luck
Label –
I Feel Fine Records

Lisel – The Vanishing Point
Label –
Ba Da Bing!

Machine Girl – MG Ultra
Label –
Future Classic

The Jackets – Intuition
Label –
Capital Records

W.H. Lung – Every Inch Of Earth Pulsates
Label –
Melodic

Bon Iver – SABLE (EP)
Label –
Jagjaguwar

Cold Cave – Passion Depression (EP)
Label –
Heartworm Press

Sxnctuary – Underground (EP)
Label –
Independent

airshade – silent steps (feat. Mouren) (Single)
Label –
from heart to heart

bosses – Dogwoods / Siren (Single)
Label –
Independent

Daisy Grenade – How to Hide a Body (Single)
Label –
Pub Consumption

DUMB POSH HIPPIES – Scrunched Up Fist (Single)
Label –
Independent

Echos – PAPERCUTS (Single)
Label –
Outlast Records

Ever Elysian – Fool in Love (Single)
Label –
Independent

Eville – Leech (Toronto Is Broken Remix) (Single)
Label –
DRPFED Music

Last Days of Heaven – Nothing Left to Torture (Single)
Label – NEW MORALTY ZINE

Lucky Iris – something to believe in (Single)
Label –
A Launchpad+

Matilda Mann – Everything I’m Not (Single)
Label –
7476

The New Violence – caught up (Single)
Label –
Independent

Anxious – Counting Sheep (Single)
Label –
Run For Cover

Exploring Birdsong – Weight in Gold (Single)
Label –
Long Branch Records

F5ve – UFO (Single)
Label –
LDH Records

Leaving Time – Arm’s Length (Single)
Label –
Sunday Drive

Gleemer – The Body’s Worth (Single)
Label –
Other People Records

LIFTER – October (Single)
Label –
Independent

Pale Blue Eyes – How Long Is Now (Single)
Label –
Broadcast Recordings

Chelsea Wolfe – Place In The Sun (Single)
Label –
Loma Vista Recordings

DITZ – Space/Smile (Single)
Label –
Independent