Another packed #NewMusicFriday sees nearly 70 releases spanning rock, emo, metalcore, hardcore, metal, and beyond.
Among today’s releases is the impressive second album from “post-emo” outfit Ben Quad. You can read more about ‘Wisher’ here. While a pair of emo “godfathers” deliver new releases. First, The Get Up Kids‘ Matt Pryor returns with a vulnerable solo record in ‘The Salton Sea’. It sees him candidly document his realisation of addiction and the recovery. Meanwhile, Jimmy Eat World‘s ‘Something(s) Loud’ compiles their sporadic single releases since 2019’s ‘Surviving‘ album onto vinyl.
Two of metalcore’s established heavyweights, Of Mice & Men and The Devil Wears Prada, deliver new albums with ‘Another Miracle’ and ‘Flowers’ respectively. Meanwhile, up-and-coming Germans Avralize fuse metacore hooks, electronic textures, and tech metal on their debut album, ‘Liminal’. Fellow Europeans, Parisian crossover mob Rise of the Northstar, mash together metal, hardcore, rap and hip-hop with ‘Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!!’
When it comes to homegrown UK releases, there are a handful of notable releases. Vower‘s second EP, ‘A Storm Lined With Silver’ picks up where last year’s debut outing left off (review here). Hotly tipped hardcore outfit False Reality look set to continue to ride a wave of momentum with debut album, ‘Faded Intentions’. There is also new music from The Hunna, The Hyena Kill, and versatile alt-metal newcomers, PREYRS. A special mention has to be given to Small Pond Records’ ‘Emerging Vol. V’ compilation. It sees the Brighton-based label highlight young bands and artists from the surrounding errors with a versatile mix of sounds and styles.
Elsewhere, you can find:
- Green Day celebrates 25 years of the often under-appreciated ‘Warning’
- Mike Patton (Faith No More and Mr. Bungle) collaborates with folk duo The Avett Brothers on the self-titled AVTT/PTTN
- Canada’s Home Front provide a rousing, neon-lit collection of post-punk on ‘Watch It Die’.
- Emerging San Francisco duo chokecherry and their debut album, ‘Ripe Fruit Rots and Fall’ , admirably stir up an introspective and layered set of lush soundscapes.
- There are also new releases from 5 Seconds of Summer, The Neighbourhood, Blackberry Smoke, Ghold, and much more.
What is out on #NewMusicFriday?
Albums
Rock / Alternative Rock / Hard Rock
AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN
PREYRS – The Wounded Healer
The Hyena Kill – The Process
Cheap Trick – All Washed Up
Winterpills – This Is How We Dance
House & Home – I Won’t Look For You
Curious Volume – Nothing Is Good
Murals – Murals
The Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear
Alternative / Indie
Matt Pryor – The Salton Sea
The Neighbourhood – (((((ultraSOUND)))))
chokecherry – Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls
Hotel Lux – The Bitter Cup
Violent Vira – Lover Of A Ghost
Tiberius – Troubadour
Emo / Pop-Punk / Pop-Rock / Punk / Post-Punk
Ben Quad – Wisher
5 Seconds Of Summer – Everyone’s A Star!
Cheem – Power Move
Home Front – Watch It Die
Mini Skirt – All That We Know
Dick Move – Dream, Believe, Achieve
Metalcore
Of Mice & Men – Another Miracle
The Devil Wears Prada – Flowers
Avralize – Liminal
Devil May Care – Limit
ONE CHiN – Self-Transformation
Hardcore
False Reality – Faded Intentions
Rise of the Northstar – CHAPTER 04: RED FALCON SUPER BATTLE! NEO PARIS WAR!!
Living End – Perish
Raw Brigade – 100%
So Far So Good – So Far So Good
Pintglass – Pintglass
Negative Blast – Destroy Myself For Fun
Metal
Vower – A Storm Lined With Silver
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations
Ragana + Drowse – Ash Souvenir
Stellar Circuits – Phantom :: Phoenix
Mourn The Light – Sorrow Feeds The Silence
Eld Varg – Destroyer
Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass
Änterbila – Avart
Death Metal / Deathcore
1914 – Viribus Unitis
Seek Misery – Everyone You Love Will Leave
Bookburner! – Volume I: In Preparation For Cemeteries
Primordial Rites – Contemplation Scriptures & The Swallowing Void
Degraved – Spectral Realm Of Ruin
Demon King – Death Knell
Season Of The Dead – Zombie Chronicles, Vol. 1
Voidceremony – Abditum
Nuclear Dudes – Skeletal Blasphemy
Osiah – Aion
EPs
Jimmy Eat World – Something(s) Loud (vinyl only)
Vower – A Storm Lined With Silver
The Hunna – blue transitions
Ab-Natural – Catabase
AVOID – Creature Of Habit
HollowKin – Decrepit Nature
Monograf – Occultation
Kylver – The Gobi
Forever Ends Here – I’m Still Trying to Find Myself
Dematerialize – In Time We Will All Be Dust
Berthold City – No Brotherhood
Peach Blush – Eradication Of The Mind
HolyName – Three Bar Cross
One Last Day – Eyes Like Glass // Thoughts Like Fuel
Reissues and Compilations
Green Day – Warning (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible (Deluxe Edition)
Small Pond Records – Emerging Vol. V
Blackberry Smoke – Rattle, Ramble & Roll: The Best of Blackberry Smoke – Volume One
Various / Compilation – No Life ‘Til Leather – A Tribute to Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All
Deep Elm Records – The Emo Diaries, Chapter 13: Confessions of a Broken Man
Mötley Crüe – Theatre Of Pain (40th Anniversary)
Emery – White Line Fever (2025 Remaster)
Circle Jerks – Golden Shower Of Hits (Deluxe Edition)
Coffin Society – The Prelude (A Remaster)
If you think I’ve missed something or have a new album/EP/song to tell us about, tell us about it here.
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