Even though football isn’t coming home to England, there’s a handful of #NewMusicFriday releases to lift your spirits. For starters, there is the much-anticipated new album from Loathe. ‘A Stranger To You’ is six years in the making and promises to see the Liverpudlian quartet deliver on their ambitious genre-blurring sound. Goth metalcore mainstays Motionless In White mark their 20th anniversary with their seventh studio album, ‘Decades’. Weaving in elements of hardcore, goth, industrial, and electronic, it is considerably the most assured MIW has sounded in years. Fellow Pennsylvanians, The Menzingers return with another reliable record in the form of ‘Everything I Ever Saw’. You can read more about that in our full review.
Another band making a return this week is As It Is. The Brighton-based Transatlantic pop-rockers’ eponymous album sees them return with a newfound honesty and transparency. Meanwhile, influential post-hardcore band, Quicksand come back with ‘Bring On The Psychics’. The trio’s fifth album promises to bridge the gap between their heavy sound of the 90s and their more recent experimental material.
For those wanting something heavier, there is the new record from Boundaries. ‘Yearning: the unbeautiful after’ sees the Connecticut band live up to their potential, delivering a venomous range of beatdown, hardcore-adjacent metalcore.
When it comes to independent homegrown talent, look no further than Guillotine. Fresh off the back of appearing at the 2000trees Festival, they remerge after a six-year absence with ‘A Lesser Key’. The album is evidence of perseverance, delivering a set of stirring emotional rock songs that make up for lost time.
Among today’s other releases, you can find new music from Haken, Flesh Creep, Riley!, Red Method, and more.
What is out on #NewMusicFriday?
Albums
Alternative / Indie / Post-Rock
Cloned Apparition – Parallel to the Sun
Emo / Pop-Punk / Pop-Rock / Punk / Post-Punk
The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw
As It Is – As It Is
Guillotine – A Lesser Key
Metalcore
Loathe – A Stranger To You
Motionless In White – Decades
Boundaries – Yearning: the unbeautiful after
Hardcore / Post-Hardcore
Quicksand – Bring On The Psychics
Metal
Protest The Hero – Within
Black Sites – For Eternity
Stormhammer – Wrath Of The Hammer
Death Metal / Deathcore
Fuming Mouth – The Ringing Bell
Psycroptic – The Pulse of Annihilation
Tomb Slab – Tomb Slab
EPs
Haken – in a fever dream
Flesh Creep – Glimmer
Riley! – To Live And Die In The American South
Red Method – As In Life
Galleons & Valiant Hearts – Fables, Vol. 1
Our Chronicle – The Grey Area
MUELAS – Bellow
Poison The Preacher – Things I Want
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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