New Music Friday: September 23rd, 2022

Welcome to September’s penultimate New Music Friday, with our wrap-up all the new metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative, and indie releases, as well as picks from our staff. Check out our release calendar to keep an eye on this year’s upcoming releases!

STAFF PICKS

Pincer+ – Angeldust (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dallis recommends: Pincer+ storms out the gates with their debut single “Angeldust“, a raging single that encapsulates pain, loss, hatred, heartbreak, and betrayal. With the sheer talent in this line-up, there can only be exciting things to come from this new Aussie unit.

L.S. Dunes – 2022 (Single)
Label – Fantasy Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Harry recommends: Punky and energetic, post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes refashion vocalist Anthony Green’s solo song “2022”, injecting new life into an already mature and emotionally charged song.

Love Is Noise – Euphoria (where were you?) (Single)
Label – 333 Wreckords Crew
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Contrasting their ferocious lead single “Movement,” UK duo Love Is Noise demonstrate their refined melodic sound with a serene rock soundscape on their brand new EP’s title track “Euphoria (Where Were You?).

Scarlet Sun – Scarlet Sun (EP)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Scarlet Sun return with their self-titled EP that sees them deliver some of their best and most forceful work, with tracks “Until I Sleep” and “Lavender Water” being the highlights of the record.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Novelists FR – Déjà Vu: Première Partie [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Out of Line

Space Of Variations – IMAGO
Label – Napalm Records

Gaerea – Mirage
Label –  Season of Mist

Stratovarius – Survive
Label – Edel Music 

Mo’ynoq – A Place for Ash
Label – Indepedent

As Paradise Falls – Madness / Medicine (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Eclipse Records

Dayseeker – Dreamstate (Single)
Label – Spinefarm Records

SOMN – Fracture (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Termina – Take Flight (Single)
Label – Independent

Outline in Color – Stay Away (feat. AVOID) (Single)
Label – InVogue Records

Thousand Below – face to face (Single)
Label – Shade Music Group

Within Destruction – Toxic (Single)
Label – Ultra Heavy Records

Boundaries – Burying Brightness (Single)
Label – 3DOT Recordings

Varials – Circles (Single)
Label – Fearless Records

a bitter end. – IRIDESCENT (feat. Clem Richard of ASHEN) (Single)
Label – Independent

A Wake in Providence – We Are Eternity (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records

Earth Caller – Alone (Single)
Label – Independent

Heirbloom – We Are Not the Same (Single)
Label – Independent

I Am King – Titanium (Single)
Label – King Studios

LYKOTONON – That Which Stares In Kind (Single)
Label – Profound Lore Records

Exist Immortal – Emerge (Single)
Label – Seek & Strike

Vatic – The Colour In Your Eyes (Single)
Label – Independent

Disturbed – Unstoppable (Single)
Label – Reprise Records

Despite Exile – Custodian (Single)
Label – Kontrolla Music Group

Implore – Archetype (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Avatar – Valley of Disease (Single)
Label – Black Waltz AB

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

KEN mode – NULL [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Artoffact Records

The Wonder Years – The Hum Goes on Forever [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Hopeless Records

The Rasmus – Rise
Label – Playground Music Scandinavia 

Kill Strings – LIMBO
Label – MNRK

Jesse Jo Stark – Doomed
Label – Independent

5 Seconds of Summer – 5SOS5
Label – BMG

Our Last Night – Empires Fall (Deluxe)
Label – Independent

Dead Pony – War Boys (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – LAB

Ocean Jet – Entwined (EP)
Label – Союз Мьюзик

Courting – Guitar Music
Label – Play It Again Sam

Polyphia – Ego Death (feat. Steve Vai) (Single)
Label – Rise Records

City of Caterpillar – Paranormaladies (Single)
Label – Relapse Records

Thrice – Open Your Eyes and Dream (Single)
Label – Epitaph Records

Celldweller – Blind Lead the Blind (Single)
Label – FiXT

He Is Legend – The Prowler/Lifeless Lemonade
Label – Spinefarm Records

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns – FUTUREBLIND (Aphantasia) (Single)
Label – Independent

Nerv – I Need Help (Single)
Label – Independent

Samiam – Lights Out Little Hustler (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

NateWantsToBattle – Scrap Heap (feat. Ghost Fight) (Single)
Label –  Give Heart Records

Becko – GET BE++ER (Single)
Label – IN6N

FJØRT – schrot (Single)
Label – Grand Hotel van Cleef

Alive in Barcelona – Asphyxiate (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records

Daedric – Coldharbour (Single)
Label – FiXT

Modern Day Escape – Bury the Wolf (feat. Travis Miguel of Atreyu) (Single)
Label – Independent

The Smashing Pumpkins – Beguiled (Single)
Label – Martha’s Music

Godsmack – Surrender (Single)
Label – Universal Music 

Birds In Row – Noah/Cathedrals (Single)
Label – Red Creek Recordings

Hevenshe – These Days (Single)
Label – PREMA Records

Pinkshift – in a breath (Single)
Label – Hopeless Records

Finger Tight – My Inner Child Is In Amityville (Single)
Label – Independent

Softcult – One Of A Million
Label – Easy Life Records

Waterparks – Self Sabotage (feat. Good Charlotte)
Label – Fueled By Ramen

Poppy – FYB (Single)
Label – Republic Records

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Cold Gawd – God Get Me the Fuck Out of Here [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Dais Records

Lande Hekt – House Without A View [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Prize Sunflower

Nils Frahm – Music For Animals [FULL REVIEW]
Label –  LEITER Verlag GmbH

Steve Bates – All The Things That Happen [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Constellation

Tyson Motsenbocker – Milk Teeth
Label – Tooth & Nail Records

The Soft Moon – Exister
Label – Sacred Bones Records

Magdalena Bay – Mercurial World Deluxe
Label – Luminelle Recordings

death’s dynamic shroud – Darklife
Label – Independent

The Tallest Man On Earth – Too Late For Edelweiss
Label – Gardener Songs

Editors – EBM
Label – Play It Again Sam

Sam Gellaitry – VF VOL II
Label – Parlophone Records 

Beth Orton – Weather Alive
Label – Partisan Records

Maya Hawke – MOSS
Label – Mom+Pop

Tamino – Sahar
Label – Communion Music

Arkells – Blink Twice
Label – Independent

Tim Burgess – Typical Music
Label – Bella Union

Marisa Anderson – Still, Here
Label – Thrill Jockey Records

Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio
Label – Joyful Noise Recordings 

G.E.N. – Revelation
Label – Warner Music China

Big Scary – Me And You
Label – Pieater

Talk Show – Touch the Ground
Label – Missing Piece Records

Maya Azucena – I Am Enough (Single)
Label – Azucena Songs

Emily Breeze – Ordinary Life (Single)
Label – Sugar Shack Records

Teri Gender Bender – The Get Up (Single)
Label – Clouds Hill

Mae Krell – Tooth Fairy (Single)
Label – BITCH music

Alice Glass – Lips Apart (Single)
Label – Eating Glass Records

The 1975 – All I Need to Hear (Single)
Label – Dirty Hit

Ruby Haunt – Laughing Heart (Single)
Label – Independent

We Are Scientists – Operator Error (Single)
Label – 100% Records

Wet Leg – Spotify Singles (Single)
Label – Domino Recording

Wild Pink – See You Better Now (Single)
Label – Royal Mountain Records

Björk – Ancestress (Single)
Label – One Little Independent Records

Hope Tala – Leave It On The Dancefloor (Single)
Label – Republic Records

PVA – Bad Dad (Single)
Label – Ninja Tune

The Murder Capital – A Thousand Lives (Single)
Label – Human Season Records

Mega Drive – NARC³ (Single)
Label – FiXT

Neev – Seawall (Single)
Label – Trapped Animal

Indigo Sparke – Hysteria (Single)
Label – Sacred Bones Records

Stormzy – Mel Made Me Do it (Single)
Label – Hasghtag Merky Music

Alvvays – Bleinda Says/Very Online Guy (Single)
Label – Celsius Girls