New Music Friday – November 28th, 2025

Welcome to New Music Friday where we round-up all the week’s releases from metalcore, hardcore, alternative and indie. For a full view of what’s coming up, check out our release calendar a look to see what other releases are coming up. The NMF playlist can be found here or at the bottom of the page.

STAFF PICKS

Ashes At Last – Johnnie Guilbert Stole My Flow (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Shane recommends: Ashes At Last continue to unleash their crabcore recollections of yesteryear with “Johnnie Guilbert Stole My Flow”. Synths, deathcore drops, and an emo-tive chorus span a four-minute treasure trove of nostalgic expression. It’s starting to seem as though Ashes At Last have acquired a time machine or have been unfrozen from cryogenic chambers; this is the closest thing to old-school Asking Alexandria, Upon This Dawning, and Misery Signals mashed into a beast of a track.

Daria Arkova – What I’m Not (feat. Cage Fight) (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Daria Arkova first dropped this track a few months ago, breaking open the doors of autumn in sombre style. The stripped back riffing gives Arkova’s vocals and poetry the space to chill you to the core, becoming a relentless storm by its end. This redux edition features Rachel Aspe of Cage Fight yielding brutal gutturals and screams to take it to a new dimension.

Starved – Feed Your Head (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Nick recommends: Right as the sun begins to set on 2025, Starved have finally returned to the fold with “Feed Your Head“, a 3 minute affair that sees the hardcore underdogs at the top of their game. Erratic hardcore vocals and riffs laid atop frenetic drumming and flavourful industrial elements, Starved successfully retain every aspect of their highly addicting sound, and we can only hope even greater things are on the horizon for 2026.

Upsetter – Best years of my life (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: Mall slowcore? It sounds crazy, but maybe that’s what Upsetter are doing. Beefy, fuzzy guitars prowl beneath essential emo choruses across Upsetter’s “Best years of my life”. Their dual vocals work so well, leaving you feeling woozy and a bit depressed.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Excide – Bastard Hymns
Label – SHARPTONE

Struck A Nerve – Struck A Nerve
Label – Listenable records

Valiant Hearts – Hidden Realms
Label – Independent

Paledusk – PALEDUSK
Label – A.S.A.B

Broken Calling – Echoes In Absence (EP)
Label – Independent

Fallweather – You For Life (EP)
Label – Independent

Godeater – ALVORECER (EP)
Label – Independent

GRAY STATE – Gray State (EP)
Label – 931 HQ

gloom.tx – Veiled In Velvet (EP)
Label – Independent

Pitch Black Tomb – II : AMENHOTEP (EP)
Label – Independent

Slaughtercult – Demo 2025 (EP)
Label – Independent

SUFFERING – THERE IS NOTHING IN NORTHWEST INDIANA (EP)
Label – Fix My Face Records

7eventh Sea – Stare At The Sun (Single)
Label – Independent

Above & Below – Soothsayer (Single)
Label – Independent

Bury Tomorrow – Bury Tomorrow (Live in Cologne) (Single)
Label – Music For Nations

D-Mad Devil – Grace (Single)
Label – SHINOREI

Erase The Day – Distant Within (Single)
Label – Independent

Future Palace – Deep Blue (Single)
Label – Century Media

Ice Sealed Eyes – Winter (Single)
Label – Independent

InRetrospect – TOXIC (Single)
Label – Independent

Lionheart – Roll Call (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Nameless Planet – Entombed (Single)
Label – Independent

Sickrecy – First World Anxiety (Single)
Label – Independent

Harbinger – A Thousand Faces (Single)
Label – Heavy Collective

The Brave – Take It All Away (Single)
Label – Independent

The Hirsch Effekt – Das Nachsehen (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

Earthbound – Separate Existence (Single)
Label – Independent

Houses We Die In – i’ll stay as long as you do (Single)
Label – Independent

IMMERSE – Resonate (Single)
Label – Common Outcast

Lintworm – Ungoliant (Single)
Label – Independent

Nylist – The Reaper’s Purgatory (Single)
Label – Independent

Pincer+ – Yours To Erase (Single)
Label – Greyscale Records

Sylosis – The New Flesh (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

Utsu-P – トリカブト (Single)
Label – KARENT

Crown Magnetar – Desecrate Infinite (Single)
Label – Unique Leader Records

Sanity Slip – Vision of Desire (Single)
Label – Bayway Records

The Raven Age – Visions (Single)
Label – Independent

Rotten Sound – Idealist (Single)
Label – Season of Mist

HARDCORE RELEASES

Forward To Eden & xEdenisgonex – xforwardtoedenisgonex
Label – BBMA Records

Sore Teeth – Sore Teeth
Label – Cleveland Records

VEXHC – Death And A Soldier
Label – Independent

Amanaki – Vices (EP)
Label – North Supply Co.

Grim Reality – Crush Ya Bones (EP)
Label – Life.lair.regret. Records

Knives Chau Fan Club – promo 2025 (EP)
Label – Independent

Liberate – Promo 2025 (EP)
Label – Independent

Lost To Life – No Peace For Me (EP)
Label – Independent

ChainMail – Yield Or Die (Single)
Label – Fuckshit Records

Cober Mouth – PAIN PUSHER (Single)
Label – Independent

DFL – WATCH YOUR STEP (Single)
Label – SBÄM

EMPTY THREAT – WARRANT TO SUFFER (Single)
Label – Independent

SURGE HC – SALVATION THROUGH PAIN (Single)
Label – Independent

Conservative Military Image – Legs Feed The Wolf (Single)
Label – Lionheart Records

Risk – Unstoppable (feat. Death Before Dishonor) (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Brutus – Live in Brussels
Label – Hassle Records

Citizen – Everybody is Going to Heaven (Live in Detroit)
Label – Run For Cover

Centralia – Vol 1: Cut The Cord (EP)
Label – Independent

Harpy – VII (EP)
Label – Independent

itoldyouiwouldeatyou – We Were Having Such a Nice Day (EP)
Label – FULL FORCE THOUGHT

Ruena – why heal when you can repress (EP)
Label – AUTONOMY

South Arcade – PLAY! (EP)
Label – Lab Records

Alera – CITC: a demonstration (EP)
Label – Independent

Blight Town – World Speed Ravine (Single)
Label – Independent

Chiefland & Watch Me Rise – Crashing Out (Single)
Label – Uncle M Music

Cold Culture – Chemicals (Single)
Label – Heavy Collective

LOVELETTER – Bleach (Single)
Label – Independent

never easy – forever jaded (Single)
Label – prettyugly records

rosecoloredworld – rock bottom has a basement (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group

Slope – Just Do You (Single)
Label – FURY FUNK Rec.

The All-American Rejects – Get This (Single)
Label – Slick Shoes

YONAKA – Hit Me When I’m Sore (Single)
Label – Distiller Records

Youth Novel – Blood in the Sand (Single)
Label – Diaryland Records

FOXHAUNT – Gasoline (Single)
Label – Independent

Hamartia – Synthetica (Single)
Label – Independent

Hell Hotel – saviour complex. (Single)
Label – Independent

Watch Me Rise – Strength In You (Single)
Label – Uncle M Music

Artio – Seven Suns (feat. kahal) (Single)
Label – Lab Records

Intohimo – HONESTY; In the Light of the Dead (Single)
Label – Bergslagen Records

Sawtega – Revenge (Single)
Label – Independent

death_on_impact – Take Me: Silent (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

City and Colour – Sometimes Lullaby
Label – Dine Alone Music Inc.

E_DEATH – My Closest Friend
Label – Independent

Mathbonus – Thorn (EP)
Label – Independent

bleach.bath – HEXED (Single)
Label – bleach.FM

Enabling Behaviour – Electric Pop Songs (EP)
Label – Krautpop!

HUNNY BUZZ – Car Collision (Single)
Label – Independent

j1nabae – DA GRIND (Single)
Label – Independent

Killgurls – Please Kill Me (Single)
Label – Adventure Cat Records

Lucinda Chua – mmMMmmmm/The World Around Me Is Working Against My Memory) (Single)
Label – ambient tweets

Mercy Girl – Closer (Single)
Label – Descent Records

Sullii – Careful With The Ground (Single)
Label – Independent

Death Bells – Shiver (Single)
Label – William J. Canning

heelenyum – Slowly (feat. Sxnctuary) (Single)
Label – Sonic Vortex Records

Street Lamp – 2k (Single)
Label – Independent

Airline – Bliss (Single)
Label – Airline

Flowerbabe – eternal fog (Single)
Label – Mr. D’s Magic Records