New Music Friday – June 12th, 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

Artifiction – BARE (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: “BARE” demonstrates sublime taste for tech metalcore from Swiss unit Artifiction. Out of the gate, we’re gripped by the production and performances, something they’ve honed since their debut album VIVA towards their upcoming second. The band keep it harsh throughout, not needing to revert to candid cleans, delivering a melodic without blunting themselves. There’s an intensification towards the track’s end that’s so much more than a breakdown – it feels like a continuous story being told, arcing towards a bad ending that leaves you decked in a wash of reverb.

Fanchon – Ghost (Single)
Label – Independent
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Dobbin recommends: The third single from Fanchon‘s most exciting release cycle yet. There are many moments in “Ghost” which are catching – the beat switches, arresting vocals, progressive tendencies, and grit of all the heavy guitars. A special quality to “Ghost” and Fanchon is how sparse they feel when it comes to the key moments of contemplation, buoyed by impeccable production that doesn’t over-do things. The resulting atmosphere makes the August Malmström album art so very fitting.

GUHTS – CURRENTS (Single)
Label – Silent Pendulum
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: Two years since the release of Regeneration, GUHTS make an emphatic return on their brand new single “CURRENTS“. It brings all the sludge and post-metal goodness that the project has made itself known for. These are riffs that rumble as they ruminate, matched with menacing vocals that have a ritualistic manner to them, all making for a mesmerising yet eerie listen.

Soulprison – Revelation of Evil (Single)
Label – BDHW Records
(Spotify/Apple Music)

Joe recommends: After being the standout act at Bristol’s Foefest last weekend, Soulprison are back with an absolute heater of a track with “Revelation of Evil“. It’s bursting with punchy metallic riffs, akin to that of the likes of Guilt Trip, yet the band have that cutting edge added to make them hit just that bit harder. Topped off with some gnarly, commanding vocals, there is a palpable brutality to Soulprison which makes it feel much closer to the UKHC of the previous decade. This will make the Stuttgart act a new favourite both in the UK and across Europe.

METAL/CORE RELEASES

A Kiss Before Dying – A Shifting Sense of Still
Label – MEMPHIS STYLE

Fires in the Distance – Circadian Promise
Label – Prosthetic Records

So Much Hope & Buried. – Wither | Grow
Label – Rose Eyes LLC

Temple Guard – Citadel In Flames
Label – Eco Defence Records

Varination & ameokama – Varination & ameokama
Label – Independent

Gideon – 4×4 (EP)
Label – Sumerian Records

Lwstndrds – Czerń / Burning Sky / LWSTNDRDS Split (EP)
Label – LWSTNDRDS

Obelizk – Pain Prodigy (EP)
Label – Independent

Seven Cities Dead – The Reckoning (EP)
Label – Seven Cities Dead

Still Remains – Spirit Breaker (EP)
Label – Independent

Devourment – Pious Impiety (EP)
Label – Relapse Records

Black Tusk – Systems of Solitude (EP)
Label – Black Tusk

Drown The Planet – The Blessed /// The Cursed (EP)
Label – JMW productions

Disfigurement – Split (feat. PREVARICATE) (EP)
Label – Crow’s Nest Records

VOWS – //Dreams.Chains.Halo// (EP)
Label – Independent

A Sight in Veracity – Split Frame (Single)
Label – Independent

Advents – Synthetic (Single)
Label – InVogue Records

Artifiction – BARE (Single)
Label – Artifiction

awaywithroses – You Will Be Killed By Me After All (Single)
Label – Independent

Beauty in a Plastic Bag – Heart Stay Quiet (Single)
Label – Outlive Records

Bring Me The Horizon – Black & Blue (2026 Repented) (Single)
Label – RCA Records Label

Chernobyl the Secret – Last Straw (Single)
Label – Independent

Chico – Blur (Single)
Label – New Morality Zine

Cult Of Luna – In the Shadow of Your Shadow (Single)
Label – SIVIANA, RED CRK AB

Deathbeds AU – Someone I Hate, Someone I Despise (Single)
Label – Independant

Dreams End – Save Yourself (Single)
Label – Independent

DUSTHOUSE – I Told You (Single)
Label – Dusthouse soundtrack

Ego Death – Atrim (Single)
Label – Independent

FINAL RESTING PLACE – ANCIENT CARNAGE (Single)
Label – Mass Casualty Recordings

Fit For A King – Blood Pact (Single)
Label – Solid State Records

MORNINGSIDE – I Don’t Care (Single)
Label – MORNINGSIDE

Null Existence – A Howl Beneath Black Skies (Single)
Label – Null Existence

Nylist – Inside (Single)
Label – Nylist Records

Sakoya – Strangers (Single)
Label – Adventure Cat Records

simvlacrvm – Upside Down Hearts (feat. Harumi2002) (Single)
Label – GlassKatsu

Sorry X – AFTERTHOUGHT (ROT) (Single)
Label – SBG Records

Staind – It’s Been Awhile (25th Anniversary Live) (Single)
Label – BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Substation – How Much Is The Fish? (feat. Screamdancer) (Single)
Label – Substation GbR

Vexatious – Paper Planes (Single)
Label – Vexatious

What Lies Below – Monolith (Single)
Label – Theoria Records

Burial Path – The Luminary (2026 Remastered) (Single)
Label – Independent

Haken – bleeding sky (Single)
Label – InsideOutMusic

Imminence – The Sword That Never Bends (Single)
Label – Sumerian Records

Mountainscape – Dune (Single)
Label – Road To Masochist

Polyphia – CAN YOU FEEL IT (Single)
Label – Rise Records

Silly Goose – Set It Off (Single)
Label – Blue Grape Music II, LLC

Rev3rent – Last One Here (Single)
Label – Deep Love/Atlantic Records

rozemary – bleed me dry (Single)
Label – Independent

To The Grave – EYESTALK ABLATIONS (Single)
Label – BLKIIBLK

UNDUSTED – Echoes of Oblivion (Single)
Label – Independent

Dead/Awake – Ghost (Single)
Label – Independent

Headstrong – Nothing Ever Changes (Single)
Label – Brock Studios

unpeople – friends (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

Awaiting Eschiel – Grace for the Hopeless (Single)
Label – Ephyra Recordings

The Unending – Desolate (Single)
Label – Independent

HARDCORE RELEASES

Take it in Blood – Exit from life
Label – Borndead Collective / Hellride Records / Burning Water

Total Wolf – DEFCON 4
Label – Sketchy Records

False Reality – FADED FEATURES (EP)
Label – Hassle Records

gimmick. – Don’t Belong To Us (EP)
Label – LCY Media

MERC – Sticks and Stones Single (EP)
Label – M3I Records

Torena – Extinction (EP)
Label – DAZE

7 Dragons – Scrolls of Severance (EP)
Label – Independent

Contrasts – the_space_between (Single)
Label – Independent

DROP OUT – BITTER END (feat. Billy Nicholls) (Single)
Label – Dision Records

Lethal Method – The Hard Way (Single)
Label – Life & Death Brigade Records

Slope – Born Low (Single)
Label – FURY FUNK Rec.

SPLIT//BITE – _Inherit: Loss (Single)
Label – Apollon Records

Fallweather – Mourn (Single)
Label – PAPERCUT

Madball – Tethered (Single)
Label – Nuclear Blast

REPEAT OFFENDER – Shit Disturber (Single)
Label – Convulse Records

Spitting Glass – Full Send (Single)
Label – Independent

POST-HARDCORE/ROCK RELEASES

COLONY·DROP – A Future Without War
Label – Motörkaos Records

Genghis Tron – Signal Fire
Label – Relapse Records

Sleeping With Sirens – An Ending In Itself
Label – Rise Records

lonelymagnolia – Isolation As a Form of Self Defence (EP)
Label – Independent

Exit Dream – by design (Single)
Label – Independent

Fallstar – Death Drive (Single)
Label – Rat Family Records

If Not For Me – Novocaine (feat. Catch Your Breath) (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Meet Me @ The Altar – Strung Out (Single)
Label – Lab Records

MERIT – GOD’S IN HIS HEAVEN (Single)
Label – MERIT

Movements – Everything Is Fine (Single)
Label – Fearless Records

Royal Hearts – Consumed (Single)
Label – Independent

Secrets – Bitter Dose (Single)
Label – SBG Records

Skating Polly – Krobus (Single)
Label – Skating Polly

Spoiler – Deadbeat (Single)
Label – Independent

Glass Tides – The Cure (Single)
Label – GLASS TIDES

Makari – Speed Freak (Single)
Label – Thriller Records

Parannoul – Remaining (Single)
Label – Parannoul

Snag – Unarrest Me (Single)
Label – Deathwish Inc.

Wayside – Invisible Strings (Single)
Label – Memory music

GILT – Trailer For A Movie That Doesn’t Exist (Single)
Label – Smartpunk Records

Lake Malice – Ghost In A Hell (Single)
Label – Independent

LUNA KILLS – LOWER (Single)
Label – SHARPTONE

Mayday Parade – Weekend Music (Single)
Label – Independent

Chat Pile – Deep Blue (Single)
Label – The Flenser

Show Me the Body – Eat For Peace (Single)
Label – Loma Vista Recordings

Cainhurst – The Final Steps of Faith (Single)
Label – Independent

ALTERNATIVE/INDIE RELEASES

BIG|BRAVE – in grief or in hope
Label – Thrill Jockey

EREX – END THE PARTY (feat. NOWHERE2RUN) (EP)
Label – NOWHERE RECORDINGS

Tuffie – Tuffie (EP)
Label – Sunday Drive

bleach.bath – Demos 2020 (EP)
Label – Independent

Carpenter Brut – Alchemised (feat. REVNOIR) (Single)
Label – Arising Empire

Mercy Girl – Punisher (Single)
Label – Descent Records

SLANDER – Under My Skin (feat. Spiritbox & Vastive) (Single)
Label – Gud Vibrations

Suki Waterhouse – When I Get Drunk (I Want You Boy) (Single)
Label – Confidence River, Inc. / Island Records

Waterbaby – Justice (feat. PYTKO) (Single)
Label – PYTKO

Dusqk – Title Screen (Single)
Label – Heaven/11

Dogs Run Free – Show Love (Single)
Label – Fever Ltd.

Million Moons – Thundering Footsteps (Single)
Label – Million Moons Music

Pastel Faces – Bellflower (Single)
Label – Independent

Wray – Sweet Sad Saint (Single)
Label – Earth Libraries