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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

Marina: Princess

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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

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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

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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


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10. Foxing – Foxing

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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…

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10 (tie). Crowning/Oaktails – Split

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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.

10 (tie). Tiny Yawn – Paddle Ship

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Oooh, this one’s pretty — like a ray of sunshine on the coldest winter afternoon. –gravityswitch

The drums on this alone are worth the price of admission. –Bilbodabag

9. Locktender – Sage: I

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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…

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30. Fit for an Autopsy – The Nothing That Is

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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

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50. Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties – In Lieu of Flowers

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This could be Soupy’s best offering yet from any of his projects. –Slothcore Sam

“Dead Leaves” absolutely destroyed me. Campbell has continued to grow this thing into an absolute juggernaut. –MaySun91

49. Better Lovers – Highly Irresponsible

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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…

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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


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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

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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

Machine Girl: MG Ultra
Genre: Electronic / Indie Pop
Label: Future Classic

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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

Envy: Eunoia
Genre: Post Hardcore / Emo
Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.

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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

Alison Moyet: Key
Genre:
Electronic/Pop
Label: Cooking Vinyl

A Place to Bury Strangers: Synthesizer
Genre: Noise Rock / Shoegaze
Label: Dedstrange

Balance and Composure: With You in Spirit
Genre:
Alternative/Post Hardcore
Label: Memory Music

Blood Incantation: Absolute Elsewhere
Genre:
Progressive Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

Coldplay: Moon Music
Genre:
Pop Rock
Label: Atlantic Records

D.A.D: Speed of Darkness
Genre:
Rock
Label: Napalm Records

Eric Clapton: Meanwhile
Genre:
Classic Rock
Label: Independent

Geordie Greep: The New Sound
Genre:
Alternative/Experimental
Label: Rough Trade Records

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: No Title as of…
Genre:
Post Rock
Label: Constellation

Half Waif: See You at the Maypole
Genre:
Indie Pop
Label: Anti Records

Leon Bridges: Leon
Genre: Soul/R&B
Label: Columbia Records

Lotte Gallagher: A Better Feeling
Genre:
Alternative
Label: Liberation Records

Michael Love Michael: Bruiser
Genre:
Experimental Pop
Label: Get Better Records

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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.

– List of Releases: August 23, 2024 –

Alleviate: DMNS
Genre:
Metalcore/Deathcore
Label: Arising Empire

Cassyette: This World Fucking Sucks
Genre:
Alternative
Label: Rough Trade

Fleshgod Apocalypse: Opera
Genre: Symphonic Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

Fontaines D.C.: Romance
Genre:
Post Punk
Label: XL Recordings

Gift: Illuminator
Genre:
Indie / Psychedelic
Label: Omnian Music

Illuminati Hotties: Power
Genre:
Lo-fi / Indie pop
Label: Hopeless Records

Kingcrow: Hopium
Genre:
Progressive Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Kishi Bashi: Kantos
Genre:
Indie Pop / Psychedelic
Label: Joyful Noise Records

Lainey Wilson: Whirlwind
Genre:
Country
Label: Broken Bow

Lisa Loeb & The Hollow Trees: That’s What It’s All About
Genre:
Folk / Alternative
Label: Independent

Meer: Wheels Within Wheels
Genre:
Alt Prog

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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

Orden Ogan: The Order of

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