Albums in Stores – Sep 26th, 2025 • Page 2

is geese like a grassroots cult thing? Never heard of them and i am seeing them everywhere

 

Acres
Hardy
From Fall to Spring
Slothrust
The Cab
White Reaper

 

Yes, confirmed grassroots cult.

 

doja cat

 

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:
5 Seconds Of Summer
93FEETOFSMOKE (feat. fats'e)
The Acacia Strain
Adept
Agnostic Front
Alexisonfire (Live)
Amanaki
Amulet (Two songs)
Anberlin
Ankor
Another Now
As December Falls (feat. Slowly Slowly)
Asleep At The Helm
Atlas
Author & Punisher
Aviana (feat. Eddie Berg)
Believe In Nothing
Blight Town
Born In Dissonance
Bowling For Soup
Brutus (Live)
Burial Waves
Carcosa
Catch Your Breath
Charlotte Sands
Chat Pile (feat. Hayden Pedigo)
Chiefland (feat. EMMERICH)
Chlorine
Chroma
Coilguns
Coldrain
Corrosion Of Conformity
Creeper
Daedric
Dark Divine
The Dark.FM
Dayseeker
Dear Me (feat. Woven In Hiatus)
The Devil's Trade
Downpour
Downswing (feat. Chris Roetter)
Dream Nails
Dream State
Eihwar
Ends In Tragedy
Everlyne
Excide
familypet
Florence + The Machine
Gasket
Godseyes
happydaze
Hate9Ten
Hell Can Wait
Hive
I Am King (feat. Laz The Vampire)
If I Were You
IOTA
Jackson Rose (feat. Kill Dyll)
L.S. Dunes
Lucifena
Luna Falling (feat. The Bunny The Bear)
Maggie Lindemann (feat. Julia Wolf)
male//gaze
Meet Me @ The Altar
Metrik (feat. Rou Reynolds)
Moonspell
Naked Identity Created By King
Negative Love
Nemophila
Novelty Island
Omnium Gatherum
Out Of Vision
Ov Sulfur
PINKNOISE
P.O.D.
Portugal. The Man (Two songs)
Profiler
Queen Of Nothing
Ratboys
Raw Brigade (Three songs)
Relentless 3
Reliqa
sadeyes
Shelf Lives
SIFYN
Silly Goose
Skorn
Smote
Sophie Powers
Spaced
Sparta
Spite
Stay Inside
Stellar Circuits
Straylight Run
The Subways
Sugar Smile
sunbleached
Twin Skeletons
TX2 (feat. Ekoh)
Valiant Hearts (feat. Trenton Woodley)
Versus Me
The Vintage Caravan
Vower (ex-Palm Reader, ex-Black Peaks)
Waste (feat. Late 9)
Wave Break
Written By Wolves
The Wytches

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.

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The Starting Line
Doja Cat (very 80s pop on this album, and it rules)

 

WHITE REAPER

 

Is Anberlin just going to keep rerecording their older material with Matty? Ready Fuels is one of my favorite songs and the new version is fine, but doesn't compare to when Stephen sings. I'm OK with the new arrangement they have with Matty if it's what Stephen needs, but just make new songs. The last new one they did with Matty was actually pretty good. I don't want these rehashed versions of my favorites.

 

Also, pop punk/emo fans should check out Equipment. More in the vein of modern bands like Ben Quad and Anxious.

happydaze is also great if you like the power pop leaning side. New song is poppier than their last release which was one of my favorites of 2024.

 

The Starting Line ALL day. Saw them a few weeks ago, absolutely incredible.

 

Really enjoying the new Abandcalledlove. EP today. The touring guitarist for Adjy also plays in this band, and it reminds me of the big sweeping pop rock stuff I loved in high school. I think it would have a lot of fans here.

 

You had me at Adjy. Will check this out.

 

No mention of the new Shiner record yet? Holy moly it’s a banger.

 

I love Ben Quad and Anxious…nice!

 

Wow that new EP from The Cab is BAD. The last song is decent but the rest is just not good.

 

New Sydney Sprague is indeed incredible! I’ve liked her stuff before, but this one feels like a big step up to me.

 

@CapnJazzHandz recs plz

 

• The Starting Line (Eternal Youth) — Whoa.
• Elder (Liminality/Dream State Return) — Perfect stoner prog rock.
• Revocation (New Gods, New Masters) — Tech-death that doesn’t sound like it’s made by machines.
• Sydney Sprague (Peak Experience) — Beautiful, indie-ish, grunge-y alt-rock with such good cover art.
• Royal Sorrow (Innerdeeps) — Djent-y prog that is super catchy. Rare combination of getting melodies burrowed into your brain, while you still find something new every time you listen.
• Amorphis (Borderland) — These guys are like the perfect melodeath band to me.
• Dying Wish (Flesh Stays Together) — Metalcore. Love the emotion that pours out of these songs.
• White Reaper (Only Slightly Empty) — Catchy, punk-y alt-rock. Kind of like The Dirty Nil.
• Mors Principium Est (Darkness Invisible) — Really, really good symphonic melodeath.
• Words of Recollection (I Found the Love…) — Hopeful, atmospheric post-black metal.
• Whiskey Myers (Whomp Whack Thunder) — Competent southern rock.
• Colbie Caillat (This Time Around) — An album mostly of reinterpretations of past songs as duets. Didn’t hit me.

 

Sorry, it was a busy day!

 

I'm not gonna lie, I was super skeptical about this new Starting Line album from the first single. It didn't really grab me, plus Kenny's aged voice felt jarring. I wasn't sure what they were going to be able to pull off.

But holy moly, Eternal Youth freaking rules! I should've never doubted them