Welcome to New Music Friday, with our round-up all the new metalcore, hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff. Check out our release calendar to keep track with all of the year’s upcoming releases!
STAFF PICKS
Fever Cult – Joyride (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: Fever Cult are back with another absolutely joyous track, in what will hopefully be the first of many, that is addictive with its heartful nature and sweet melodies.
Graphic Nature – White Noise (Single)
Label – Rude Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Dallis recommends: Graphic Nature find new ways to push the limits with their visceral sound and sheer rage on their latest track “White Noise“. With the next chapter for the unit on the horizon, the anticipation builds with each release.
Oversize – Taste (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)
Joe recommends: After a busy summer which saw them perform at Outbreak Festival, Oversize are back with an earworm of a track that makes them an even more exciting prospect going forward.
Blackpink – Born Pink
Label – YG Entertainment
Max recommends: BLACKPINK deliver a solid second full-length with Born Pink, producing a more lyrically forward and sonically diverse outing for the world’s biggest K-Pop group.
METAL/CORE RELEASES
The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Solid State Records
Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Nuclear Blast
Electric Callboy – Tekkno [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Century Media Records
Confessions of a Traitor – Punishing Myself Before God Does [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Facedown Records
Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Prosthetic Records
Destrage – So Much. Too Much.
Label – 3DOT Recordings
Harmed – THE EVERCHANGING GAP BETWEEN LIFE AND LOSS
Label – Independent
Massface – Inequable
Label – Independent
Mycelia – In A Late Country
Label – Eclipse Records
Irist – Gloria (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Nuclear Blast
Weeping Wound – idontbelonghere (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Blood Blast
Reliqa – I Don’t Know Who I Am (EP)
Label – Independent
Lorna Shore – Pain Remains I: Dancing Like Flames (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Rotnest – Chimera (feat. Desolate) (Single)
Label – Independent
Circles – Dig (Single)
Label – Wild Thing Records
Cloud Rat – Corset (Single)
Label – Artoffact Records
Kingsmen – Dead Letter (Single)
Label – Sharptone
Show Me The Body – We Came To Play (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings
The Gloom in the Corner – New Order (feat. Taylor Barber) (Single)
Label – Sharptone Records
Interloper – Bear the Weight (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
In Flames – Foregone Pt. 1 (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast
As Hell Retreats – Dissent (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Lacuna Coil – Swamped XX (Single)
Label – Century Media Records
Shaam Larein – Murderer (Single)
Label – Svart Records
Designer Disguise – Lifeline (Single)
Label – InVogue Records
Wowod – Обречение: Часть 1 (Single)
Label – Church Road Records
Lionheart – DEATH COMES IN 3’S (feat. Jasta of Hatebreed) (Single)
Label – Fast Break! Records
Tariot – Alas (feat. Tobias Rische of Novelists FR) (Single)
Label – Independent
Skin Failure – Meat Pond (Single)
Label – Small Pond Recordings
POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES
Maggie Lindemann – Suckerpunch [FULL REVIEW]
Label – swixxzaudio
The Darling Fires – Distortions [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Iodine Recordings
The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Clouds Hill
No Devotion – No Oblivion [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Velocity Records
Death Cab For Cutie – Asphalt Meadows
Label – Atlantic Recording
Loveless – End of an Era
Label – Independent
The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors
Label – Partisan Records
Clutch – Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
Label – Weathermaker
The Murlocs – Rapscallion
Label – ATO Records
noyou – This Game We Started (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Indepedent
Emarosa – Stay (Single)
Label – Out Of Line Music
Landon Tewers – Sink With Me (feat. blanket) (Single)
Label – Independent
Gatherers – gift horse (feat. Geoff Rickly) (Single)
Label – No Sleep Records
Sleeping With Sirens – Complete Collapse (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records
Evol Walks – Back Where You Belong (Single)
Label – Ionoff Music
Little Thief – Lost in Love (Single)
Label – Bad Sandy Records
Asuna – Passerby (Single)
Label – Independent
Algiers – Bite Back (feat. billy woods & Backxwash) (Single)
Label – Matador Records
The Early November – Five Years (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records
NOAHFINNCE – LaLaLa (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records
Young Culture – Kinda Over It (Single)
Label – Rude Records
Ronins – 17teen (Single)
Label – Independent
Terra – Perfect Crime (Single)
Label – Welfare Sounds & Records
Sincerely – That’s What You Said Last Time (feat. Adventurer) (Single)
Label – Independent
Balboa Son – Hiding Zone (Single)
Label – Soundhill Oy
Archetypes Collide – My Own Device (Single)
Label – Independent
She Must Burn – Eulogy (Single)
Label – Grey Rock Records
ChuggaBoom – No Rules, No Limits (Single)
Label – Dead Serious Recordings
ISOTOPES – I Don’t Feel Anything Now (Single)
Label – Independent
Widow7 – Fire (Single)
Label – Alchemy Recordings
PSTCRDS – What We Dwell On (Single)
Label – Independent
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES
The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field
Label – Carpark Records
Rina Sawayama – Hold The Girl
Label – Dirty Hit
Suede – Autofiction
Label – BMG
Musa Masa – demon time
Label – Universal Music
No Age – People Helping People
Label – Drag City
Jesca Hoop – Order of Romance
Label – Memphis Industries
Bazzi – Infinite Dream
Label – Atlantic Records
Jessie Reyez – YESSIE
Label – Island Records
Crack Cloud – Tough Baby
Label – Meat Machine
Noah Cyrus – The Hardest Part
Label – Columbia
Lissie – Carving Canyons
Label – Lionboy Records
Fletcher – Girl Of My Dreams
Label – Capitol
The Driver Era – Summer Mixtape
Label – TOO Records
Michelle Branch – The Trouble With Fever
Label – Nonesuch Records
ELIZA – Sky Without Stars
Label – Different Recordings
Meg Mac – Matter of Time
Label – Venice Music
Daya – In Between Dreams (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Sandlot Records
Blood Orange – Four Songs (EP)
Label – RCA
Hedda Mae – This Might Get Loud (EP)
Label – Warner Music Group
Loose Articles – Chaos (EP)
Label – Alcopop Records
Susan O’Neil – Now You See It? (EP)
Label – Star House Collective
Weyes Blood – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records
Etta Marcus – Crown (Single)
Label – Universal Music Operations
PVA – Bunker (Single)
Label – Ninja Tune
Angel Olsen and Sturgill Simpson – Big time (Single)
Label – Jagjaguwar
Bee Arnold – Crossed The Line (Single)
Label – Independent
Boy Harsher – Burn It Down (Single)
Label – NUDE CLUB
A.O. Gerber – Only Mystery (Single)
Label – Hand In Hive & Father/Daughter
Breanna Barbara – Landslide (Single)
Label – Fuzz Club Records
blackswan – Drowned by Lies (Single)
Label – Jagged Wire Entertainment
SFXCBRNX – REVENGEANCE (Single)
Label – STRADA Music