Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 6th, 2025. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: June 6th, 2025 –
A-Z: A2Z2
Genre: Progressive Metal Label: Metal Blade Records
Addison Rae: Addison
Genre: Columbia Records Label: Synth-Pop / R&B
Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal
Genre: Electronic Label: Verve Records
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Soft New Magic Dream Genre: Trip Hop / Dream Pop Label: Rad Cult
Caamp: Copper Changes Color
Genre: Americana Label: Lilliput Records
Cypress Hill & London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday
Genre: Hip Hop Label: Acoustic Sound
Dawn of Ashes: Infecting the Scars
Genre: Industrial Metal Label: Metropolis Records
Death In Vegas: Death Mask
Genre: Electronic Label: Drone
For your Health: This Bitter Garden
Genre: Hardcore / Emo Label: 3Dot Records
Jimmy Barnes: Defiant
Genre: Rock / Soul Label: Mushroom Records
Katatonia: Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
Genre: Progressive Metal / Atmospheric Metal Label: Napalm Records
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI
Genre: Rap / Hip Hop Label: Young Money and Republic Records
Little Simz: Lotus Genre: Hip Hop / Experimental Label: Forever Living Originals
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 28th, 2025. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: February 28th, 2025 –
Architects: The Sky, The Earth, & All Between
Genre: Metalcore Label: Epitaph Records
Avantasia: Here Be Dragons
Genre: Power Metal Label: Napalm Records
Banks: Off With Her Head
Genre: Pop Label: ADA Worldwide
Cloakroom: Last Leg of the Human Table Genre: Shoegaze / Post Hardcore Label: Closed Casket Activities
Crown of Madness: Memories Fragmented
Genre: Death Metal Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Dark Chapel: Spirit in the Glass
Genre: Hard Rock Label: Napalm Records
Deep Sea Diver: Billboard Heart
Genre: Alternative Label: Sub Pop Records
Doves: Constellations for the Lonely
Genre: Dream Pop / Indie Rock Label: EMI
Enemy Inside: Venom
Genre: Metal Label: Napalm Records
Everon: Shells
Genre: Progressive Rock Label: Mascot Label Records
Grima: Nightside
Genre: Post Black Metal Label: Napalm Records
Hanukruunu: Tavastland
Genre: Black Metal / Folk Label: Svart Records
Hope Tala: Hope Handwritten Genre: Folk / Singer/Songwriter Label: Drift Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 14th, 2025. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: February 14th, 2025 –
Alessia Cara: Love & Hyperbole
Genre: Pop / R&B Label: Def Jam
Bartees Strange: Horror
Genre: Hip Hop / Indie Label: 4AD
Bleeding Through: Nine
Genre: Metalcore / Black Metal Label: Sharptone Records
Brother Ali & Ant: Satisfied Soul Genre: Hip Hop Label: Mello Music Group
Decline of the I: Wilhelm
Genre: Post Black Metal Label: Agonia Records
The Delines: Mr. Luck and Ms. Doom
Genre: Country / Dream Pop Label: El Cortez Records
Denison Witmer: Anything at All
Genre: Folk Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records
Hands Like Houses: Atmospherics
Genre: Alt Prog Label: Civilians
Hangman’s Chair: Saddiction
Genre: Alt Goth / Doom Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Horsegirl: Phonetics On and On
Genre: Indie Rock / Noise Rock Label: Matador Records
Lacuna Coil: Sleepless Empire
Genre: Metal Label: Century Media Records
Mallrat: Light My Face Like a Straight Right
Genre: Indie / Electronic Label: Nettwerk Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of January 17th, 2025. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: January 17th, 2025 –
Charles A.D.: Cyclone Foraging
Genre: House / Electronic Label: Independent
CkRAFT: Uncommon Grounds
Genre: Progressive Metal Label: Independent
Echos: Quiet, In Your Service
Genre: Indie Pop / Electronic / Alternative Label: Outlast Records
Eidola: Mend Genre: Post Hardcore / Progressive Label: Rise Records
Jasmine.4.t: You Are the Morning
Genre: Indie Folk Label: Saddest Factory Records
The Legendary Pink Dots: So Lonely in Heaven
Genre: Electro/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records
Luigi Tozzi: Sentient
Genre: Techno Label: Hypnus Labels
Mac Miller: Balloonerism
Genre: Hip-Hop / Psychedelic Label: Remember Music
Rebecca Black: Salvation
Genre: Pop Label: Loud Pizza Records
Sarcator: Swarming Angels & Flies
Genre: Blackened Thrash Label: Century Media Records
Sophie Jamieson: I Still Want to Share
Genre: Indie Folk Label: Bella Union
The Weather Station: Humanhood
Genre: Folk / Indie Pop Label: Fat Possum Records
Willow Avalon: Southern Belle Raisin’ Hell Genre: Country Label: Warner Music
Zora: BELLAdonna
Genre: Alternative / Hip Hop Label: Get Better Records
Foxing is exhausted, but don’t take my word for it! Their latest album’s cover depicts an over-saturated, digitized, and hollowed out close-up of the Greek bronze sculpture Boxer at Rest, originating from a period of antiquity marked by a shying away from the heroic regalia accentuated in prior generations. The actual statue survived with minimal oxidation only because it was promptly buried — an apt parallel to how this band, the emo revival’s most restless explorers, lay defeated even if their reputation seems well-preserved. Name me a more decorated, adventurous act from their scene and I’ll call you a liar, not that it seems to matter to them: here at LP #5, reinventing the wheel for the fourth time overall and the first time as their own producers and crowd-funders, a medal is chump change compared to a moment’s reprieve.
Not to bury the lede in there, but yes, Foxing have yet again willed their arc in unforeseen directions. With each release, they course-correct from a criticism of the one prior while accumulating touchstones — once a sound enters their DNA, it doesn’t escape so easily. Exhibit 4.1: observe how the tight pop songcraft of predecessor Draw Down The Moon evaporates in favor of Foxing‘s sprawling, nocturnal cynicism while the band’s comfort with electronics doesn’t just remain, but expands until it bursts — guitars and synths shriek, space age…
All four tracks here are total skramz rippers, from the Jekyll-and-Hyde fury-and-calm in Oaktails’ “Dazzling Dress” to the nihilistic sneer railing against materialistic greed and hubris in Crowning’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it “Luxor Surrealism”. Intertwining Chicago’s Crowning and Tokyo’s Oaktails throughout the tracklist, rather than compartmentalizing them in Side A/Side B fashion like in previous splits, was a sage idea — while Crowning’s mathy “Jung Money, Freud Problems” is my favorite here, Oaktails’ violence is more immediate in its fury.
By choice, Locktender’s discography has thus far been wholly devoted to the evolution of art between disciplines. The Cleveland-based quartet’s three prior LPs all lifted their names from the works of a different storied figure — for anyone interested in catching up, albums indebted to productions by Franz Kafka, Auguste Rodin, and Caspar David Friedrich await — and Sage: I, the band’s first sizable release in six years, in turn pays homage to three paintings by surrealist Kay Sage, each track sharing its title with an…
Formulas are not inherently a bad thing. That’s a statement that I don’t think should be controversial, but it’s often a commonly heard credo amongst the music community that sticking to the same sonic formula leads to albums sounding same-y, which leads to disinterest, which leads to declines in quality. Naturally, I disagree, and the reasoning behind that lies in the separation between stagnation and consistency. See, stagnation is the same thing without any minute evolutions or creative variations; it’s what happens when the same thing becomes boring. Consistency is the ability to make something that sounds similar but feels fresh upon each listen. And you might be wondering, “What the fuck does this have to do with a deathcore album?” The answer is quite simple: Fit for an Autopsy are living proof that a band can create the same general sonic concept album to album while preventing the next from sounding stagnant and stale.
The Nothing That Is is an album that, realistically, probably isn’t all that different from The Sea of Tragic Beasts and Oh What the Future Holds, putting aside the slightly increased focus on clean vocals. The same heavy djun-djuns are here, Joe Bad still growls like a beast (he is the product of his fucking environment), and the lyrics still paint grim portraits of modern
The word ‘supergroup’ tends to draw some worried glances when brought up in music discussions. It seems like, for every A Perfect Circle or Audioslave, there’s just as many where the individual talent of the group’s members never really adds up when brought together. How lucky we are, in that case, that Better Lovers, formed from former Every Time I Die members, vocalist Greg Puciato of Dillinger Escape Plan, and ultra-prolific guitarist and producer Will Putney, escapes the jaws of mediocrity to deliver one of the year’s finest metalcore efforts. Granted, the band had already proven themselves in 2023 with their debut EP, but holy crap does Highly Irresponsible ever live up to those grand expectations. Jagged riffs meet howled vocals that have somehow managed to match and even exceed the best of Puciato’s work with Dillinger. Whether it be the groovy, full-speed ahead riffs of “A White Horse Covered in Blood” or the shocking amounts of genuine emotion present in “At All Times”, there’s something here for all metalcore fans, and it promises…
This is the final week where the new release list is relatively quiet, so take that time to play catch-up while checking out the few new releases available. Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of January 10, 2025. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: January 10, 2025 –
Ethel Cain: Perverts
Genre: Dream Pop / Ambient Label: Daughters of Cain
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear
Genre: Indie / Post Punk Label: Domino Recordings
The Halo Effect: March of the Unheard
Genre: Melodic Death Metal Label: Nuclear Blast
Moonchild Sanelly: Full Moon Genre: House Label: Transgressive Records
Obscure Sphinx: Emovere
Genre: Post Metal / Prorgressive / Sludge Label: Independent
Stick to Your Guns: Keep Planting Flowers
Genre: Metalcore Label: Sharptone Records
Tremonti: The End Will Show Us How
Genre: Hard Rock / Thrash Label: Napalm Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 25th, 2024. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: October 25, 2024 –
Amyl and the Sniffers: Cartoon Darkness
Genre: Lo-Fi / Alternative Label: B2B Records
Anna Lunoe: Pearl
Genre: Electronic / Dance Label: NLV Records
Anya Marina: Asteroid
Genre: Singer/Songwriter Label: Rough Trade
Atreyu: The Pronoia Sessions Genre: Metal Label: Spinefarm
Autumn’s Grief: Dead Among the Living
Genre: Symphonic Metal Label: Inverse Records
Avishai Cohen: Brightlight
Genre: Ska / Afrobeat Label: Naive Records
Behemoth: XXX Years Ov Blasphemy
Genre: Blackened Death Metal Label: Nuclear Blast
Better Lovers: Highly Irresponsible
Genre: Math Rock / Alt Metal Label: SharpTone Records
Devin Townsend: Powernerd
Genre: Progressive Metal Label: InsideOut Music
Elke: Divine Urge
Genre: Indie Rock / Indie Pop Label: Congrats Records
Entheos: An End to Everything
Genre: Technical Death Metal Label: Metal Blade Records
Fashion Club: A Love You Cannot Shake
Genre: Electronic / Art Pop Label: Felte Records
Fit For An Autopsy: The Nothing That Is Genre: Deathcore Label: Nuclear Blast
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 18th, 2024. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: October 18, 2024 –
Bishop Briggs: Tell My Therapist I’m Fine
Genre: Singer/Songwriter Label: Terry Eighteen Inc.
Bon Iver: Sable EP
Genre: Indie Folk / Electronic Label: Jagjaguwar
Ensiferum: Winter Storm Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Power Metal Label: Metal Blade Records
Frozen Crown: War Hearts
Genre: Power Metal Label: Napalm Records
Funeral: Gospel of Bones
Genre: Doom Label: Season of Mist
Goldiie Lux: S.I.N. EP
Genre: Indie Pop / Hip Hop Label: South Coast Music Group
Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol
Genre: Indie Rock / Noise Rock Label: Anti- Records
Jerry Cantrell: I Want Blood
Genre: Alternative Label: Double J Music
Jay Oladokun: Observations From a Crowded Room
Genre: Soul / Folk Label: Republic Records
Kylie Minogue: Tension II
Genre: Electro Pop Label: Darenote
Lil Durk: Deep Thoughts
Genre: Rap Label: Alamo Records
Liv Greene: Deep Feeler
Genre: Americana Label: Free Dirt Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 11th, 2024. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: October 11, 2024 –
Ad Infinitum: Abyss
Genre: Metal / Pop Label: Napalm Records
The Blessed Madonna: Godspeed
Genre: Electro Pop Label: Warner Music
Cascada: Studio 24 Genre: Electro Pop Label: Stars By Edel
Cemetery Skyline: Nordic Gothic
Genre: Gothic Rock / Post Punk / Metal Label: Century Media Records
Charli XCX: Brat and It’s Completely Different…
Genre: Pop Label: Atlantic Recording Corporation
Chat Pile: Cool World
Genre: Noise Rock / Sludge Label: The Flenser
Chrissy Costanza: VII
Genre: Alternative / Pop Punk Label: Independent
The Crown: Crown of Thorns
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Thrash Label: Metal Blade Records
Dawes: Oh Brother
Genre: Americana Label: Dead Ringers
Dua Saleh: I Should Call Them
Genre: Hip Hop / R&B / Soul Label: Ghostly International
Eill: My Dream Box
Genre: J-Pop Label: Pony Canyon Inc.
ELUCID: Revelator
Genre: Hip Hop Label: Fat Possum Records
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of October 4th, 2024. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: October 04, 2024 –
1349: The Wolf & The King
Genre: Black Metal Label: Season of Mist
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of August 23rd, 2024. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
Happy American Independence Day. Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 5th, 2024. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.
– List of Releases: July 5, 2024 –
Aeons: The Ghosts of What We Knew
Genre: Progressive Metalcore Label: Sliptrick Records
Akhlys: House of the Black Geminus
Genre: Black Metal / Ambient Label: Debemur Morti Productions
Fink: Beauty in Your Wake
Genre: Alternative / Downtempo Label: R’COUP’D
Horned Almighty: Contagion Zero
Genre: Black Metal Label: Soulseller Records
Kasabian: Happenings
Genre: Indie / Psychedelic Label: Columbia Records
Kiasmos: II
Genre: Electronic / Ambient Label: Erased Tapes Records
Kokoko!: Butu
Genre: African / Electronic / Alternative Label: Transgressive Records
Liminal Shroud: Visions of Collapse
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal Label: Willowtip Records
Nyktophobia: To the Stars
Genre: Blackened Death Metal Label: Napalm Records
A-Z: A2Z2
Addison Rae: Addison
Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno: Luminal
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Soft New Magic Dream
Caamp: Copper Changes Color
Cypress Hill & London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday
Dawn of Ashes: Infecting the Scars
Death In Vegas: Death Mask
For your Health: This Bitter Garden
Jimmy Barnes: Defiant
Katatonia: Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter VI
Little Simz: Lotus
Marina: Princess
