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