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#NewMusicFriday: April 18th 2025

NewMusicFriday April 18th

It may be Easter weekend, but that doesn’t stop an abundance of new music releases from seeing the light of day. The site’s analytics tells me the average engagement for these weekly posts is just 20 seconds, So I won’t keep you waiting.

Mayday Parade release ‘Sweet’, the first instalment of a three-part album
– As It Is mark their return with a re-recorded version of their debut album, ‘Never Happy, Ever After’, with a whole bunch of guests. Read my thoughts here.
Superheaven‘s eponymous full-length is their first album in ten years.
– Last week’s Record Store Day release from Black Stone Cherry hits digital streaming platforms.
Julien Baker & Torres flex their alt-country muscles on ‘A Prayer My Way’.
– 
Melvins add to their extensive discography with their 28th album – ‘Thunderball’.
– Montreal, Quebec experimental musician Eric Quach, aka ThisQuietArmy, marks 20 years with his new record, ‘Langue Hybride’.
– For the metalheads, there are new releases from King KrakenFace YourselfGama Bomb, and Exterminatus
– There are  also new releases from Heavy LungsnewshapesPackers, and Icosandria / Treewax.


What is out on #NewMusicFriday?

Mayday Parade – Sweet
As It Is – Never Happy, Ever After X
Superheaven – Superheaven
Black Stone Cherry – This is Black Stone Cherry’s RSD album. The band really likes it.
Cassyette – This World Still Fucking Sucks
Julien Baker and Torres – A Prayer My Way
King Kraken – March of the Gods
Melvins – Thunderball
Hawkwind – There Is No Space For Us
Heavy Lungs – Caviar
ThisQuietArmy – Langue Hybride
newshapes – a conversation with myself
Face Yourself – Martyr
Gama Bomb – Necronomicon Automaton
Divide And Dissolve – Insatiable
Icosandria / Treewax – Void Intention (Split EP)
Packers – Summer Nights Secrets
Exterminatus – Echoes From A Distant Star Part 1
Fractured Fairytales – Parasomnia
Collapsed Vein – Pain Communion
Daavar – State of Feeling
SVNTH – Pink Noise Youth
Teramaze – The Harmony Machine
Pearl Handled Revolver – Tales You Lose
Fools Game – Something For The Pain
Funeral Commercial – Dead Before I Die
Black Band Shirt – You Will Never Know Me

If you think I’ve missed something or have a new album/EP/song to tell us about, tell us about it here.

If you’re looking for the latest tracks focusing on rock, punk, hardcore, metal, emo, and everything in between, then check out our ‘Newish Music’ playlist on Spotify or Apple Music.

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