In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for nine recently announced alternative albums and EPs.
Anxious – Bambi
Credit: Rebecca Lader
Punk band Anxious will release second album Bambi on February 21, 2025 through Run For Cover Records.
Tracklist:
Never Said
Bambi’s Theme
Some Girls
Counting Sheep
Audrey Go Again
Head & Spine
Tell Me Why
Sunder
Next Big Star
Jacy
I’ll Be Around
Silverstein – Antibloom/Pink Moon
Credit: Wyatt Cloguh
Silverstein – celebrating 25 years as a band – have announced a double album Antibloom/Pink Moon!
Antibloom will be released on February 21, 2025 through UNFD and Pink Moon will follow later in the year.
“In 2025 we will be celebrating 25 years as band. For a milestone this large, we felt it deserved the largest campaign of our career,” the band said.
“We felt incredibly inspired, and put everything we’ve learned / felt / experienced into this double-album. They say it takes an artist their whole life to write their debut album, but with starting this band so young, it felt like it took 25 years to write Antibloom / Pink Moon – the absolute collection of our musical style and ideas we’ve pioneered over these years.”
Antibloom Tracklist:
Mercy Mercy
Don’t Let Me Get Too Low
Confession
A Little Fight
Skin & Bones
I Will Destroy This
Stress
Cherry Coke
Obeyer – Chemical Well
Credit: Kieran Gallop
Obeyer will release debut album Chemical Well on November 15 through 3DOT Recordings!
Chemical Well was recorded at Lower Lane Studios with producer Sam Bloor (Graphic Nature, Black Coast). The band praised Bloor’s “innate ability to draw the very best from a performance created an environment that allowed us to achieve a sound that felt both authentic and true to our vision.
“We wanted to ensure the album acknowledged our influences but also pushed our own boundaries both musically and lyrically. Chemical Well explores the impact technology has on our day to day lives, having the world at your fingertips is both a blessing and a curse.”
Tracklist:
A Momentary Death
With Nothing
All Sullen
Immaculate
Dripfed
Brand New Damage
A Slow Shift to a Cold Shiver
L.S. Dunes – Violet
L.S. Dunes will release new album Violet on January 31, 2025, through Fantasy Records.
Travis Stever said: “‘Violet’ is a sonic journey into the depths of every band member of L.S. Dunes. The collaborative efforts to bring each song to a full potential came naturally.
“It’s the album that has always lived in us individually but could only be made together. It has melodies that have lived within me since I was a child. It was only with this band I would be able to find a place where they could find a home in song.”
Wilder – Better Days
Wilder will release debut album Better Days on May 2, 2025 through Rude Records.
Tracklist:
Young
Burnover
Feeling Fine
Dial Tone
Drifting
Best Wishes
Rinse, Repeat
The Nightmares – Fire in Heaven
The Nightmares will release album Fire in Heaven on February 14, 2025, through Venn Records.
The Welsh rockers’ vocalist and guitarist Adam Parslow said: “The name for the album is taken from a quote from Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke – who was speaking glowingly of the sound produced by the late great guitarist Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker. The quote really resonated with us as a band and we felt it perfectly captured the mood of the new songs.
“This record explores the curiosity between the struggles of human existence on Earth, and the weight of what else might be out there in the wider universe…”
Tracklist:
Siren Song
Letting It All Go
Hell Is Gonna Happen
Beneath Your Name
Blood On Your Hands
Run Away
Winterlude
Heaven Won’t Hold Me
Melancholy Waltz
Jinjer – Duél
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Jinjer will release their fifth album Duél on February 7, 2025, through Napalm Records.
Eugene Abdukhanov, JINJER bassist said of the new album: “First of all, it‘s hard to believe that we’re about to release our fifth full length album! After all the releases we’ve made, finally having Duél in our hands and ready to be shared with the world, makes us very proud that our band still hasn’t run out of creativity and inspiration.
“The fact that we still challenge ourselves to release the best music we have ever made with each new release, is what keeps JINJER moving forward.
“This upcoming album was the longest songwriting process we’ve ever had and it took almost two years to complete.
“We worked very hard with every free minute we weren’t on tour, recording demos over and over again and always searching for the perfect sound for guitars, bass and drums. It was also the first time that Tatiana did vocal pre-productions, so it’s safe to say that none of our releases were so well thought out and calculated as this one.
“It pulverises the boundaries of the modern progressive metal genre but still remains sophisticated, exciting and extreme all at the same time. We took up the challenge to expand our musical horizons even wider than before in order to cement Duél to be the next step in JINJER‘s musical growth and hopefully the evolution of metal music in general.”
Tracklist:
Tantrum
Hedonist
Rogue
Tumbleweed
Green Serpent
Kafka
Dark Bile
Fast Draw
Someone’s Daughter
A Tongue So Sly
Duél
Abdomen – Yes, I Don’t Know
Credit: Alwin Sinnem
Abdomen will release their new album Yes, I Don’t Know on February 21 through FatCat Records.
Tracklist:
Damage Tool
Numbers
Dazed
Weird Shapes
Neurotic
Fish I
Yes, I Don’t Know
Good Vibes
Salmon
Exhale
Das Kapital
Fish II
State Of You – On a Knife’s Edge
State Of You will release new record On a Knife’s Edge on January 24, 2025, through Silent Cult.
Tracklist:
Cut The Rope
To The Core
Under the Wire
Double Barrelled
Two Of A Kind
Which Way The Water Flows
