Albums in Stores – Aug 8th, 2025

Ada Lea - when i paint my masterpiece (folk)
Lydia Night (ex-The Regrettes) - Parody of Pleasure (pop)
Gordi - Like Plasticine (alt pop)
kennedy mann (ex-Highnoon) - dupes of nobody EP (indie)
Greta Isaac - Dolly Zoom EP (pop)

 

Teethe
Hibou

 

There’s a lot here that at the very least I’ll be checking out:

Thousand Below
Dance Gavin Dance
Good Charlotte - edit - listened to a couple songs and didn’t like it so far
MGK - edit - listened through a few songs and didn’t like it so far even tho MGK is a guilty pleasure of sorts usually.
Dropout Kings
Halestorm

 

Dark Thoughts - HIGHWAY TO THE END [[egg punk]] the name for this genre always makes me laugh
Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
Good Charlotte - Motel Du Cap
Gordi - Like Plasticine [[indie/chill pop]]
Humour - Learning Greek [[ a lil post punk/ a lil post hardcore]]
Jenevieve - CRYSALIS [[r&b]]
Luna Li - When A Thought Grows (reimagined)
No Joy - Bugland
Osees - Abomination Revealed at Last
The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers


Singles:

AFI, Algernon Cadwallader, almost monday, Babebee, BEL, Big Thief, Color Green, Courting, Cut Copy, Danger Mouse, Deftones, Die Spitz, Disclosure/Anderson Paak, Flight Facilities, Glass Animals, Goose, Grave Flowers Bongo Band, Hunx and His Punx, Laufey, Lucy Dacus, Luna Luna, Modern Nature, NewDad, Night Tapes, Pinkshift, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Saint Seneca, Sangre, Secret World, Slothrust, swim school, Tape Trash, Teenage Dads, Tuxedo, Wolf Alice

 

Not a genre I'm big into (Trap Metal) but the Dropout King's album is a big one. Adam Ramey who does the cleans/screams committed suicide in May just a few weeks after finishing up the vocals for the album. I've always been a fan of theirs and the album goes hard enough as it is but even more-so being his last one ever

Editing to add my favorite track from them for anyone who is mildly interested in the genre

 

Hurula
Ethel Cain
The Black Keys
Osees

 

VIOLET NIGHT
Neutral Snap EP
Thousand Below
Attack Attack!
Bad Suns
Bored as Hell EP
La Dispute EP
Julius Myth

 

I think my picture gives it away. Great album!

 

Bad Suns and Black Keys alllll day!


Oh and new Deftones song!

 

Bailey Zimmerman - Different Night Same Rodeo
Will still check out the Black Keys even though I haven't liked anything since Brothers.

 

I have high hopes for this new album. Ohio Players is my favorite since El Camino.

 

Things I’m Checking Out This Week

Bailey Zimmerman
mgk
Halestorm
Jonas Brothers
Thousand Below
Good Charlotte
Chase Wright EP
Attack Attack! (US)
Craig David
Bad Suns
Amaarae
Shadow Academy
Anamanaguchi
Gordi
Yves EP
LUNAX
Dropout Kings
Conor Matthews
Deadmau EP
Dylan Dunlap

 

Julius Myth?!?

I went to high school with him, did we go to the same high school?

 

Just checked it. I really dig "Man On a Mission".

 

Not sure where I started following him from. Maybe from a rec on here. For some reason I thought he had a feature on another artist but not sure.

 

• Asunojokei (Think of You) -- Bright, happy-sounding, Japanese post-black metal. Think Deafheaven but not depressing and substitute post-rock for the shoegaze. Love these dudes.
• Blackbraid (Blackbraid III) -- Native American-themed black metal. Dude is great at crafting songs with beautiful indigenous instrumentation interwoven with traditional black metal.
• Dreamwake (The Lost Years) -- Super catchy metalcore with some sax & 80's synths. So fun! Vocalists kind of sound like old The Amity Affliction.
• Babymetal (Metal Forth) -- This is a weird one. There are so many guest artists, but it often feels like it's Babymetal who are being featured, not the other way around. Some pretty good songs, but a disparate and disjointed album.
• Crypt Sermon (Saturnian Appendices) -- Doom with some trad heavy metal and a dash of thrash influence.
• Sinsaenum (In Devastation) -- Joey Jordison may be gone, but these guys are still pretty good and fun. Blackened death metal with just a sprinkle of nu-metal influence.
• Thousand Below (Buried in Jade) -- Catchy post-hardcore where I can feel the emotion really come through.
• Jonas Brothers (Greetings From Your Hometown) -- I liked their last one. I'm hoping this is catchy and fun.
• Good Charlotte (Motel Du Cap) -- Man, it's been a minute for these dudes.
• Ashley Monroe (Tennessee Lightning) -- Country. I hate these newer pop albums with no real throughline and large track counts. I haven't listened to this completely yet, but I doubt it needed to be 17 tracks.

 

albums by:
Ethel Cain
Babymetal

singles by:
Deftones
Creeper
Saturdays at your place
Retirement Party

 

Thousand Below
Dreamwake / remind me a lot of Dayseeker (in a good way)
Bad Suns / really liking this one

will also check out
Good Charlotte
mgk
The Black Keys
Anamanaguchi

Lots of good singles out today too

 

Happy Friday folks! Plenty of new stuff out today to enjoy.

For a more extensive list of new albums and EPs than what's already listed in the main post, you can check out my release schedule spreadsheet which includes stuff released so far in 2025 and currently beyond as far as February 2026.

It also includes stuff that's expected and/or speculated for release with a supporting source link where available.

SINGLES:
408
6 Months To Live
A Story Told
Above Snakes
Aconite
AFI
Alexodus
Alles mit Stil
Almost Monday
Ambers Wake
Amorphis
Anamanaguchi
Arrows In Action
Ashes In The Ocean
Asleep At The Helm
aurorawave
Author & Punisher
Autolytic Exsanguination (Two songs)
Aviana
AVRALIZE
Bad Wolves (feat. The Rasmus)
Barrens
Bassault US
Battle Beast
Bearpit
Beauty School Dropout
Belphegor
Berried Alive
Break My Fucking Sky (feat. StrongFigures)
Bridges Ablaze
Cage Fight
Cause For Conflict
Chaosbay
Code: Pandorum
Coldrain
ColdWards (feat. Silent Theory)
Coma Waves
Cory Marks
Creeper
Crystal Lake
Dance In Disarray
Death Goals
Deceptions
Defier
Deftones
Demon Hunter
Despised Icon (feat. Matt Honeycutt)
Diamante
Die Spitz
Distressor
Divine Fallacy
Dyas Code
Etterna
Evergreen Terrace (Dead Kennedys cover)
Face Yourself
First To Eleven
Fit For Treason
Foxblood
Frayle (Lana Del Rey cover)
Friends Of Friends
Glass Animals
God Alone
Grailknights
Great American Ghost (Deftones cover)
Grim Nocturne
Guiltera
Gutter King
Halestorm
Harker
Heartsick
Ho99o9
Hooded Menace
Hot Mulligan (feat. Cory Castro)
Humour
Hyro The Hero
I, Cursed
I, The Oracle
Influence
KennyHoopla
Kid Kapichi
King 810
Kite Thief
Krooked Tongue
LaLion
The Lemonheads
LEVELS
Like We Are
Lonesome
Lord Of The Lost
Lucifena
MANICORE
Marlhy
MNYS
Muse
My Ticket Home
Nerves
New Medicine
Next To Eternity
Not Enough Space
Of Monsters And Men
Omnium Gatherum
ONE CHiN
Ousted
Parma Violence
Pentastone
Perceptions
Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies
Pinkshift (Two songs)
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Reformed
Retirement Party
Revocation
Revoid
rouri404
Royal Republic
Rozemary
RVN//NT
sadeyes
SAFEHXEN
Saturdays At Your Place
Scarfold
Shell Of Me
shinigami
Sick Joy
Silver Fang
Slothrust
Slowly Slowly
Small Gods
Softspoken & VRSTY
Solstafir
Someone New (Two songs)
Stoneside.
Surrender The Crown
Take The Name (feat. Softspoken)
Teenage Joans
Ticket To Nowhere
TNL VZN
Trivium
VAELE
Vicious Rain
Villain Of The Story
The Vision Ablaze
Vurtist
We Are The Empty
Weakened Friends (feat. Buckethead)
Wind Walkers
Winona Fighter (Acoustic)
Wolf Alice
Wucan
You Were Never Lovelier
Your Last Breath
Youth Killed It

As always, all of the above singles are available to stream from my #NewMusicFriday playlist (below) which gets completely updated every single Friday, so feel free to follow/like it and you're all set.

If you don't want to risk missing it, you can also sign up to my mailing list and I'll email it out to you every Friday along with a list of that week's new album and EP releases.

 

Okay I fuck with this. Vocals don’t do much for me so far but in for the synth, sax and heavy grooves.

 

I was just about to mention Blackbraid! I don't listen to a ton of black metal but I got into his work with the first album and I've been hooked ever since. The new one doesn't miss and might even be the best of the 3 so far.

 

Awesome seeing the love for Blackbraid. Dude is amazing.

 

Guess I am clearing my schedule to only listen to music this week. Sheesh there's a lot of good stuff!
(In order of excitement)
Thousand Below
Dreamwake
Bad Suns
Good Charlotte
The Black Keys
Dropout Kings
Halestorm
mgk
Babymetal-curious about a couple of the features
Field Medic
Kip Moore (Deluxe version)