Albums in Stores – Oct 3rd, 2025

Things I’m Checking Out This Week

Taylor Swift
AFI
Thrice
Emily Ann Roberts
Good Neighbours
Carter Faith
Ole 60
Wind Walkers EP
dodie
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Deaf Havana
Lovejoy
Audien
Ash
Mayday Parade
Harrison Storm
Cody Marks
Stay Inside
Dolo Tonight

 

Rocket - R is for Rocket (alt rock)
Stay Inside - Lunger (post-hardcore/emo/indie)
AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (post punk)
dodie - Not For Lack of Trying (alt pop)
Gully Boys - Gully Boys (punk/alt rock)

 

If I can pull myself away at all from listening to Thrice on repeat, it'll be to check out Ash, AFI, and maybe Mayday, Deaf Havana, & Red Jumpsuit.

Also excited to hear new singles from my friends The Cardinal Blues & Nick Schrader

 

AFI & Taylor

edit: was hoping Taylor would be more Reputation vibes. Seems pretty traditional pop tunes. Fine but kinda bland. Bummer

 

This Ole 60 album is incredible. Not sure how my younger self would’ve reacted to Thrice and Coheed releasing same day and my go to is a country band…evolution is real I guess

 

AFI
Thrice
A Loss For Words
Templeton Pek

 

Alexisonfire single

 

AFI, Thrice, Deaf Havana, Mayday Parade

 

Alison wonderland
AFI
the red jumpsuit apparatus
mayday parade
Taylor swift

beefy release day

 

AFI - Silver Bleeds The Black Sun
Arson Charge - A Dying Light [[thrash/hardcore]]
Cal In Red - The Days EP
Glean - Worlds Apart EP
Glimmer - Get Weak
Gully Boys - Self Titled
Mask - Aggressive Contempt [[hardcore/punk]]
Money - Stovepipe
Peel Dream Magazine - Taurus
Prewn - System
Pynch - Beautiful Noise
Rocket - R is For Rocket
Say She She - Cut & Rewind
Snooper - Worldwide
SPENT - All That I Have Buried
Stay Inside - Lunger
swim school - self titled
Taylor Swift - Life Of A Showgirl
Thrice - Horizons/West
The Midnight - The Syndicate
Upchuck - I'm Nice Now

Singles:

A Loss For Words, Ace Enders, almost monday, artemas, BENEE, Ben Quad, Burial Waves, Chanel Beads, Cheekface, chokecherry, Coi Leray, Comet, Daisy Grenade, Destiny Bond, Dreamer Isioma, Dry Cleaning, Empress Of, Grade 2, Hazel English, Horse Jumper of Love, Jordana, Just Mustard, Leon Thomas, Liily, Lyn Lapid, Melody's Echo Chamber, Miami Horror, Miguel, Momma, New Found Glory, Noi!se, Pennywise, Phantogram, Present, Remember Sports, Riley!, Soul Blind, Speed, Skullcrusher, Split System, Stoke Signals, Strange Lot, The Jins, The Last Dinner Party, The Red Clay Strays, Thee Marloes, Witch Post

 

New Beauty School is so f’ing good. Feel like people are sleeping on it.

 

The stay inside record is amazing

they’ve traded in very good but a little generic (sorry) post hardcore for something so much more interesting.

 

THRIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!!! OH WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE

 

thrice, thrice, and thrice.

oh and AFI.

 

Today is a beast. I’m especially looking forward to the cover of Panic! At the Disco’s “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out” album.

Money
Reefeater EP
Everyone Dies in Utah
Vera, Forever
Beauty School
Motion Sick EP
Wind Walkers EP
Mayday Parade
Heists EP
Thrice
Totorro
Stay Inside
The Carolyn

 

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 March 2026.

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

SINGLES:
1914
408
601 (feat. Arian Malekpour)
A Cryptic Ending
A Lot Like Birds (feat. Geoff Rickley)
A Moment In Pompeii
Absent Colors
Ace Enders
Acranius
AENON
Aeveris
AFI
Alamance
Alchemize
Alexisonfire
Alive In Stone
Almost Monday
Angus McSix
Arcaeon
Ashnikko (feat. COBRAH)
Astray Valley
Atlas&i
Attention Monsters
Avatar
Aviva
Awake Past Midnight
Ax And The Hatchetmen
Babymetal (feat. Poppy) (Live)
Barren
Ben Quad
Born From Pain
Bowling For Soup
Burial Waves
The Butcher Sisters
Canyon Literature
Carrier
Caskets
Caution Thieves
Chokecherry
Chris Lake (feat. Skrillex)
Citizen Soldier
Claemus
Cold Culture
Control
Daisy Grenade
The Darkest Moment
DeadWax
Defences
Dematerialize
DemsFightinWords
Denouement Unfound
Destiny Bond (Two songs)
The Destruction Of The Cult Of The Sun
The Devil Wears Prada
Dread
Dream On Dreamer
dust
Dust In Mind
Dustin Dab Bowie (feat. lilspirit)
Dwellings
Earth Eater
Echoes Within
The Edge Of Reason
Ellende
Ellereve
Elizabeth Rose
Elwood Stray
Endera
Equilibrium
ExitWounds (feat. Left To Suffer)
Eyes Of Your Eyes
First Grade Fight Club
First To Eleven
Frontierer
Girl Tones
GLASSCULT
The Gloom In The Corner
Grade 2
Green Day (Demo)
guardin
Hands Like Houses
Happy Cry
Headwreck
HEALTH
HEAVENSGATE
Her Name Echoes
Horse Jumper Of Love
If It Kills Me
IN6N
inTENSIONS (feat. Danny Murillo)
Izzy Reign
Jacob Lizotte
January's Sanctuary
Jeen
John Harvie
Katerina Nicole
Krooked Tongue
KVDE
Lamb Of God
landless
The Last Dinner Party
Leah Kate (Two songs)
Let Me Bleed
Lil Peep
Living Dead Girl
Living Hollow
Lord Of The Lost
Love, Colette
Madame Mayhem
MAJORS (feat. We Were Sharks)
Maybsomeday
Megadeth
Melrose Avenue
Mental Cruelty (feat. Signs Of The Swarm)
Miara
Mick Gordon
mirabelle.
Momma
MONVRCHS
Murals
The Narrator
Nasty
Nate Vickers
Nathan Wagner
Nemesys
New Found Glory
New Medicine & Adelitas Way
Newspeak
Nine Treasures
No Horizon
Nocide
Nomadic Structures
Nonel
Notions
NOVACUB
Orbit Culture
Our Oceans
Outsider
Pale Blue Eyes
Paleface Swiss (feat. Stick To Your Guns)
Phantogram
Premier Jester
PREYRS
Projector
PROTOGONOS
Pupil Slicer
Pyro, Ohio
Red Vanilla
Remember The Monsters
Resistor
Royals (feat. Enrose)
Sarayasign
Scent Of Surface
Seas On The Moon
Secrets
Semper Acerbus
September Mourning
Severals
Shapethrower
Show Me The Body
Silence Reigns
Silver Fang
Sixty Lumens
Sleeping Wolf
Soul Blind
Speed
Stillbirth
Stories Of Solitude
Stories Through Storms
Story Untold
Subject
The Tale Untold
Ten Eighty Trees
Theftuous
Thrice (Two songs)
Thunderhead
To Octavia
Twin Skeletons
Undawn
Unto Others
Unvow
Unwell
Upchuck
Vienna Vienna
Von Welt
We Are The Empty
Wiltwither (feat. Johnny Booth)
Wires
Wither To Nothing
Words From Aztecs

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.

 

Anyone else's release radar on Spotify reduced to like 5 songs?

 

Big day:

Thrice
AFI
Mayday Parade
Coheed
A Loss For Words

 

Thrice
AFI
The Penske File
The Carolyn
Het Zesde Metaal

 

Checking out a lot today

AFI
Thrice
Mayday Parade
The Midnight
Wind Walkers
The Comfort
Stay Inside
Deaf Havana
Beauty School

My daughters will definitely make me check out Taylor Swift at some point.

 

I'd strongly recommend people check out the new Post Heaven EP if you haven't already.

FFO: Fleshwater / Glassjaw / Deftones / From Autumn To Ashes

 

Thrice
Fatal Realm single
Hooded Menace
Agriculture
Deathwinds
Wode
Suffering Hour

 

New dragon inn 3 out on the 13th

‘send your love’ out today