New Music Friday – February 6th, 2026

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

bottom surgery – glassing (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Shane recommends:  Powerhouse duo bottom surgery are beginning to align with every characteristic of technological singularity in terms of both output and quality. Their latest single, “glassing, incorporates a slew of post-hardcore subprocesses over the familiar cybergrind elements we’ve come to expect.

fakeyourdeath – Shapeshifter (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: The world of fakeyourdeath makes its electrifying return, as their frenzied sound of drum grooves, dancing synths and passion-filled vocals, make for another captivating single in “Shapeshifter“. The duo once again showing their penchant for their electronic-come-alternative sound, and it’s still one that is some of the best across the UK, and deserves to be bouncing off the walls of venues much more in 2025.

Healing Wound – Purging Visions (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: A delicious drop from Brighton’s most irreverent and aggressive band, Healing Wound returned on Monday with a truly addictive single. Hitting all the marks of quality for grindcore, powerviolence, and hardcore at once, it’s also unreasonably catchy for such a cacophony. An incredibly promising start to their debut album cycle.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

Before I Turn – Immoral and Malevolent Happenings
Label – Independent

parapariah – Whispers in the Dark
Label – Independent

Capsize – Under a Hollow Sky (EP)
Label – Roux & Ruin Records

Chaver – Cruzifiction (EP)
Label – BDHW Records

Federal Death Alliance – Ashen Paradise (EP)
Label – Independent

Infinite Misery – Altar of Extracted Teeth (EP)
Label – Iron Fortress Records

Predatory Void – Atoned In Metamorphosis (EP)
Label – Pelagic Records

Granite State – PROPER FORMS OF PROTEST (EP)
Label – Independent

Dance & Ends In Tragedy – A Dance; a Tragedy (EP)
Label – Kingpin Melbourne Records & Uzis Akimbo

Attila – ATL (Single)
Label – Duetti

Brains Outward – Death Sentence & Bloodbath (First Ultra True Slam Version) (Single)
Label – Independent

Caro Tere – River Of Ejaculate (Single)
Label – KlotKorp Promotions

False Thoughts – I’ve Got Friends (Single)
Label – GBU Independent

Haste The Day – Shallows (Single)
Label – Solid State Records

Hollow God – R.T.S.G (Single)
Label – Independent

Olhava – The River Wakes (Single)
Label – Avantgarde Music

PARAMENA – MISTHAVEN.exe (Single)
Label – PRMN Records

Turmoil – Commander & Thieves (Single)
Label – Independent

Cissné – Water Lily (Single)
Label – Lauren Records

Nailed Shut MA – Heaven Below Earth (Single)
Label – Promised Death Records

Sovereign – Desperate Place (Single)
Label – MLVTD

The Amity Affliction – House Of Cards (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Armed For Apocalypse – FISTS LIKE FEATHERS (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Digustingest – Digital Cyst (Single)
Label – Independent

Only Pain – Bled Out (Single)
Label – Independent

Snake Father – Slithering Too Much To Keep Track Of (Single)
Label – Independent

Wielded Steel – In The Line Of Fire (Single)
Label – 1126 Records

Mauled – Drop Dead Gorgeous (feat. Surfaced) (Single)
Label – Independent

Midwinter – Champagne (Single)
Label – PAPERCUT

Sylosis – Lacerations (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

UnityTX – BODY ROC (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Poison Ruïn – Eidolon (Single)
Label – Relapse Records

Gutvoid – Spell Reliquary (Single)
Label – Profound Lore

ZERRE – Deception of the Weak (Single)
Label – Dying Victims Productions

Kicked in the Head by a Horse – Memento mori (Single)
Label – Horse inflicted head injury records

Era’s End – Scream (Single)
Label – Independent

HARDCORE RELEASES

TUMOUR – Human Salvage
Label – B.I.G Records

Burning Lord & Collateral – Burning Lord Split EP (EP)
Label – STREETS OF HATE/FORTRESS

Backlash – Bacllash A.D. (EP)
Label – FINDPEACE

Bayway NJ – World of Bayway, Vol. III (EP)
Label – New Trustkill Records

Emergency Broadcast – Make Them Pay (EP)
Label – Independent

IMPERTINENCE – Awaiting Waste (EP)
Label – Last Rites Records

INVASIONHC – Matricide for a pockets weight (EP)
Label – 1782 promotions.

Next Objective – Trinity Test (EP)
Label – NWHC

Broken Lungs – No Remedy (Single)
Label – Independent

Final Words – Dogs Get Put Down (Single)
Label – Independent

Truth Grip – Chain Of Command (Single)
Label – Independent

xEIGHTY-SIXEDx – Sharp/Behind Pt. I (Single)
Label – Independent

Mizery – The Weapon Pt. II (Single)
Label – Flatspot Records

Defective Chain – Winter Promo (Single)
Label – Defective Chain

Dropkick Murphys – Citizen I.C.E. (feat. Haywire 617) (Single)
Label – Play It Again Sam

FLESH CREEP – KING OF THE HILL (Single)
Label – Music For Nations

JEWELTONE – LOVE TOO GREAT (Single)
Label – Triple Hammer Records

Bad Move – Never A Victim (Single)
Label – Lewganistan Street Slam

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

Dear Seattle – TOY
Label – Domestic La La

Dream Nails – You Wish
Label – Marshall Records

Bilmuri – TWICE (Single)
Label – Columbia

Chat Pile – Masks (Single)
Label – Sub Pop Records

Good Tiger – When Death First Appeared (Single)
Label – Independent

LEVELS – Fume / Death Dance (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

falselove – blurb (Single)
Label – Independent

never easy – perfect hell (Single)
Label – prettyugly records

Starling – 571 (Single)
Label – Independent

Bitter Branches – Pity Party (Single)
Label – Equal Vision Records

Bridget. – FOR THE HELL OF IT (Single)
Label – Independent

Cruel Queen – The Fly (Single)
Label – Independent

Palette Knife – Sleep Paralysis (Single)
Label – Take This To Heart Records

VRSTY – qué pasaría (Single)
Label – Spinefarm

WIN BIG – Pack It In (Single)
Label – Short Corner Records

Charlotte Sands – back to you (Single)
Label – Independent

Matador – Glitter Skin (Single)
Label – Church Road Records

Napoleon – No Victory (Single)
Label – Independent

Koyo – Irreversible (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Safeguard – You Will Reappear (Single)
Label – Independent

Shoreline – Youthfully Naive (Single)
Label – Pure Noise Records

Waterparks – ICE (Single)
Label – BMG

thoughtcrimes – The Violent Garden (Single)
Label – Independent

Jawless – (I Just Want To) Skate (Single)
Label – iMD-london hc

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/SHOEGAZE RELEASES

Danz CM – MYTHS
Label – Computer Magic Music

Mandy, Indiana – URGH
Label – Sacred Bones Records

stripmallravestarrr – halo
Label – Sunday Drive

E_DEATH – PTSD
Label – Eternal Life

Cathedral Bells – stray (Single)
Label – Artoffact Records

Ladytron – A Death in London (Single)
Label – Nettwerk Music Group

PhaseOne – DISAPPEAR (feat. Kompany) (Single)
Label – Sounds Of Mayhem

SAFIRE – DIGITAL FREAK (Single)
Label – Independent

Sxnctuary – Shift (Single)
Label – Independent

dead fave – Half Awake (Single)
Label – dead fave

ILLENIUM – Slave to the Rithm (feat. Bring Me The Horizon) (Single)
Label – Independent

Play Fair – Time It! (Single)
Label – Miss That Feeling

A.A. Williams – Wolves (Single)
Label – Reigning Phoenix Music

Art School Girlfriend – Doing Laps (Single)
Label – Fiction Records

Exploring Birdsong – 42 (Single)
Label – Long Branch Records

Hystria – Angela (Single)
Label – Independent

Strange Futures – Scrap Metal (Single)
Label – Independent

cruush – Great Dane (Single)
Label – Heist Or Hit Records

Cult Objects – Diamond Dust (Single)
Label – Cult Objects

Echos – CAROUSEL (RE-IMAGINED) (Single)
Label – ETERNAL SUFFERING RECORDS