{"id":99951,"date":"2025-08-22T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=99951"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:48:29","slug":"newmusicfriday-august-22nd-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/newmusicfriday-august-22nd-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"#NewMusicFriday: August 22nd 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto 20px auto; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #000; text-align: center;\">\r\n        <h3>Content Breakdown<\/h3><p>\n<a href=\"#list\">What is out on this #NewMusicFriday?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#playlist\">Take me to the Playlist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After a week away (don&#8217;t worry, the <strong>ArcTanGent<\/strong> review and interviews are coming)\u00a0<strong>Already Heard<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>#NewMusicFriday\u00a0<\/strong>round-up is back.<\/p>\n<p>This Bank Holiday weekend is truly stacked with new albums from\u00a0<strong>Deftones<\/strong>, <strong>Hot Mulligan<\/strong>, <strong>The World Is A Beautiful Place &amp; I Am No Longer Afraid To Die<\/strong>, <strong>Dinosaur Pile-Up<\/strong>, <strong>Three Days Grace<\/strong>, and <strong>Pendulum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also new music from <strong>We Came As Romans<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Night Verses<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Arcadea<\/strong>, <strong>Superchunk<\/strong>, S<strong>igns Of The Swarm<\/strong>, <strong>really big really clever<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Zetra<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Burp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><center><script src=\"https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">kofiwidget2.init('Support Already Heard on Ko-fi', '#29abe0', 'J3J4MX03R');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 id=\"list\">What is out on #NewMusicFriday?<\/h2>\n<p>Deftones &#8211; private music<br \/>\nHot Mulligan &#8211; The Sound a Body Makes When It\u2019s Still<br \/>\nThe World Is A Beautiful Place &amp; I Am No Longer Afraid To Die &#8211; Dreams of Being Dust<br \/>\nDinosaur Pile-Up &#8211; I\u2019ve Felt Better<br \/>\nThree Days Grace &#8211; Alienation<br \/>\nPendulum &#8211; Inertia<br \/>\nArcadea &#8211; The Exodus of Gravity<br \/>\nWe Came As Romans &#8211; All Is Beautiful\u2026 Because We&#8217;re Doomed<br \/>\nNight Verses &#8211; Live Sessions, Vol 1.<br \/>\nSuperchunk &#8211; Songs In The Key Of Yikes<br \/>\nGoo Goo Dolls &#8211; Summer Anthem<br \/>\nSTORM &#8211; Join The Storm<br \/>\nSigns Of The Swarm &#8211; To Rid Myself Of Truth<br \/>\nZetra &#8211; Believe<br \/>\nThe Warning &#8211; Live from Auditorio Nacional, CDMX<br \/>\nreally big really clever &#8211; \u2026huh<br \/>\nFates Messenger &#8211; Eternal War<br \/>\nBurning Witches &#8211; Inquisition<br \/>\nBurp. &#8211; Video Games &amp; Cartoons<br \/>\nBlackbriar &#8211; A Thousand Little Deaths<br \/>\nIron Savior &#8211; Reforged &#8211; Machine World<br \/>\nSugar Spine &#8211; Violent Heaven<br \/>\nHand Habits &#8211; Blue Reminder<br \/>\nCROP &#8211; S.S.R.I<br \/>\nMalevich &#8211; Under a Gilded Sun<br \/>\nHONK &#8211; Closing Down Sale EP<br \/>\nR\u00fan &#8211; R\u00fan<br \/>\nRNIE &#8211; Full Neptune<br \/>\nSkeetch &#8211; Sunny Side of Shitty Town<br \/>\nDog Lips &#8211; Danger Forward<br \/>\nOtherwise &#8211; Some Kind of Alchemy<br \/>\nOld Machines &#8211; The Cycles of Extinction<br \/>\nMyrath &#8211; Reflections<br \/>\nTelenova &#8211; Bitcrush<br \/>\nThe Funeral Portrait &#8211; Dark Thoughts<br \/>\nTe\u2019Jani &#8211; Life of the Party<br \/>\nForeign Air &#8211; Such That I May Glow<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"playlist\">If you think I&#8217;ve missed something or have a new album\/EP\/song to tell us about, tell us about it <a 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