New Music Friday: September 30th, 2022

Welcome to 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

Paramore – This Is Why (Single)
Label – Atlantic Recording
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Max recommends: Legendary rock outfit Paramore return after over half a decade with “This Is Why,” which sees vocalist Hayley Williams tapping further into the vocal style found on her solo material, making an equally floaty and feisty pop-rock anthem for the ages.

DARKO US – Oni
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: One of 2022’s most anticipated releases has lived up to and exceeded expectations. DARKO US offer up sheer brutality with tracks “Evolving” and “Roasaria’s Fingers” alongside absolutely gorgeous tracks in “Infinite Beauty” and “Come Home” on Oni.

Nation of Language – From The Hill (Single)
Label – PIAS
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dallis recommends: Nostalgia drenched track “From The Hill” is a synth-pop earworm from UK group Nation Of Language that will conjure daydreams of days gone by.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Escuela Grind – Memory Theater [FULL REVIEW]
Label – MNRK

Aviana – Corporation [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Arising Empire

Godeater – Vespera
Label – Independent

Slipknot – The End, So Far [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Roadrunner Records

Within Destruction – Lotus
Label – Ultra Heavy Records

Nylist – Divine Vision Torn Apart
Label – Independent

Lost Society – If The Sky Came Down
Label – Nuclear Blast

Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
Label –  Peaceville Records

Ellende – Ellenbogengesellschaft
Label – Independent

Darkest Era – Wither On The Vine
Label – Candlelight Records

Defects – Dream Awake (EP)
Label – Independent

Lunar Mercia – Leaving the Fragile Space (EP)
Label – Independent

Left to Suffer – Snake (Single)
Label – Independent

Lorna Shore – Pain Remains II: After All I’ve Done, I’ll Disappear (Single)
Label – Century Media Records

Our Hollow, Our Home – Idlewaves (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Noctem – I Am Alpha (Single)
Lael – MNRK

Wowod – Обречение: Часть 2 (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Thotcrime – This is My Breakdown, I Get to Pick the Music (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records

Boundaries – Burying Brightness (Single)
Label – 3DOT

Sharptooth – Wolves (Single)
Label – Independent

Straight Shot Home – Pendulum (Single)
Label – Independent

Diamonds to Dust – The Creed of Blasphemy (Single)
Label – Manifest Records

Downswing – Kick Rocks (Single)
Label – Blood Blast Distribution

Lost Trees – Cascade (feat. Michael Barr of Volumes) (Single)
Label – Kontrolla Music Group

Time, the Valuator – Glow (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

Tactosa – DIY Autopsy (feat. Kyle Medina) (Single)
Label – Blood Blast

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

Languish – Parasite (Single)
Label – Prosthetic Records

Alda Sky – Disintegration (Single)
Label – Independent

Sedative – Midnight Valentine (Single)
Label – Banana Skin Records

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

City of Caterpillar – Mystic Sisters [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Relapse Records

Icon For Hire – The Reckoning
Label – Independent

High Vis – Blending
Label – Dais Records

STAKE – LOVE, DEATH and DECAY
Label –  Hassle Records

Regulate – Regulate
Label – Flatspot Records

Drowning Pool – Strike A Nerve
Label – Universal Music

The Barnum Meserve – Designs
Label – 34D Records

Mamaleek – Diner Coffee
Label – The Flenser

Pulled Apart By Horses – Reality Cheques
Label – Alcopop!

No Sun – In The Interim (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Church Road Records

Oakman – SCP (EP) [FULL REVIEW]
Label – Rude Records

VRSTY – Welcome Home Pt. II (EP)
Label – Spinefarm Records

LØLØ – debbie downer (EP)
Label – Hopeless Records

Fake Lips – Echo Chamber (Single)
Label – Independent

Bilmuri – CORN-FED YETIS (feat. Knox) (Single)
Label – Independent

Hollow City – American Wasteland (Single)
Label – Pale Chord

Imminence – Ghost (Acoustic) (Single)
Label –  Arising Empire

Skyler Acord – knew it all along (Single)
Label – Independent

Acres – Hold On (Single)
Label – A Wolf At Your Door Records 

Conquer Divide – Paralyzed (Single)
Label – Mascot Records

Charlotte Sands – Tantrum (Single)
Label – CS Records

From Fall to Spring – LIGHT UP THE SKY (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Sleeping Satellite – Manifest (Single)
Label – StartUp Music

Abandoned in Destiny – When Raindrops Fall (feat. Lela Gruber of VENUES) (Single)
Label – Independent

Dr. Acula – How to Kill a Monster (Single)
Label – Silent Pendulum

Alexis in Texas – March Into Oblivion (Single)
Label – Bleeding Honey

Amarionette – Moving On (Single)
Label – Independent

Fire from the Gods – World So Cold (Single)
Label – Better Noise Music

If I Were You – Wither (Single)
Label – Independent

Mayfield – Kerosene (Single)
Label – Independent

NEON Empire – PESTILENCE (Single)
Label – Independent

Nowhere Left – Breathe Underwater (Single)
Label – Independent

Paleskin – STATIC PATTERNS (Single)
Label – Independent

The Disaster Area – Ghost (Single)
Label – Independent

Traces – Firewall (Single)
Label – Independent

Devin Townsend – Call Of The Void (Single)
Label – Hevy Devy Records

Seething Akira – Dioxide (Single)
Label – FiXT

As Sirens Fall – Heaven (Spat Us Back Out) (Single)
Label – Independent

sunbleached – Spinning Around (Single)
Label – Independent

Mimi Barks – ABYSS (Single)
Label – Silent Cult

Vukovi – QUENCY (Single)
Label – LAB Records

Father Deer Hands – For The First Time In Years (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down
Label – Secretly Canadian

Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unfold (Re-issue)
Label – Domino Recording

Björk – Fossora
Label – One Little Independent Records

bladee – spiderr
Label – YEAR0001

Pixies – Doggerel
Label – BMG

Pretty Sick – Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile
Label – Dirty Hit

Pixey – Dreams, Pains & Paper Planes
Label – Chess Club Records

The Big Pink – The Love That’s Ours
Label – Project Melody Music

Dream, Ivory – About a Boy
Label – Independent

The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore (Deluxe Edition)
Label – Atlantic Recording

Alison Sudol – Still Come The Night
Label – Kartel Music Group

Searows – Guard Dog
Label – Independent

Psyence – Lessons In Forgetting Everything
Label – Black Belt Recordings 

EKKSTACY – misery
Label – UnitedMasters

French Police – 1995 (EP)
Label – Cruel Records

dodie – Hot Mess (EP)
Label –  doddleoddle

Alice Boman – Where to Put the Pain (Single)
Label – Play It Again Sam

Cade Hoppe – Faded Love (Single)
Label – Independent

DEADLETTER – Weights (Single)
Label – So Recordings

The Psychotic Monks – Post-Post (Single)
Label – FatCat Records

Bones UK – Cheap Love (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records

Humour – Pure Misery (Single)
Label – Independent

Ellur – Best Face On (Single)
Label – Dance To The Radio

Tegan and Sara – I Can’t Grow Up (Single)
Label – Mom+Pop

Teen Daze – New Spirits (Single)
Label – Cascine

Hyd – Breaking Ground (Single)
Label – PC Music

Karin Park – Tokyo By Night (Single)
Label – Pelagic Records

comacrush. – conscious traveler. (Single)
Label – Independent

Arctic Monkeys – Body Paint (Single)
Label – Domino Recording Company

LCD – Soundsystem – new body rhumba (Single)
Label – Sony Music

Seven Lions – Stop Thinking (Single)
Label – Ophelia