In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for 10 recently announced albums and EPs.
The records – announced in the last couple of weeks – come from all areas of the alternative music genre.
Pentire – Love on TV
Credit: Colin Hawkins
Indie band Pentire will release their second EP Love on TV on January 31, 2025.
Frontman Jack Morgan said: “The creation of this EP has seen both love and loss, and so it naturally has a little piece of each of us woven between the lyrics and melodies. It represents the last 15 months of our lives, on the road and in the studio, and we couldn’t be more happy with it.”
Bradley Simpson – The Panic Years
Bradley Simpson will release debut album The Panic Years on February 28, 2025.
The album focuses on Bradley’s experiences of life, love, lust and learning.
Bradley said: “I hope these songs and stories can help them navigate those experiences. They can become the soundtrack to their lives, whether they’re dancing, crying, going out or whatever it is. It really feels like an opportunity to let them into a side of my life that I haven’t shared before.”
Tracklist:
Cry At The Moon
Picasso
Carpet Burn
Daisies
Holy Grail
Getting Clear
Not Us Anymore
Almost
Favourite Band
Always Like This
The Band’s Not Breaking Up
The Panic Years
Dark Chapel – Spirit in the Glass
Credit: Shane O’Neal
Dark Chapel will release their debut album Spirit in the Glass on February 28 through MNRK Heavy.
The band is made up of Dario Lorina (Black Label Society), Brody DeRozie, Mike Gunn and Luis Silva.
Dario said: “Spirit in The Glass, is a culmination of all artistic influence, whether musical or otherwise.”
Tracklist:
Afterglow
Hollow Smile
We Are Remade
Corpse Flower
Glass Heart
Dead Weight
Dark Waters
All That Remains
Gravestoned Humanity
Bullet in Our Chamber
Bdrmm – Microtonic
Credit: Stew Baxter
Bdrmm will release new album Microtonic on February 28 through Rock Action.
Vocalist/guitarist Ryan Smith said: “I felt very constrained writing a certain type of music to fit the genre [we were known for] but something lifted and I felt more free to create what I want.
“And what I seem to be doing at the moment is a lot of electronic music – taking influence from different spans of electronica, from dance music to ambient and more experimental sources.”
Tracklist:
goit (ft. Sydney Minsky Sargent)
John On The Ceiling
Infinity Peaking
Snares
In The Electric Field (ft. Olivesque)
Microtonic
Clarkycat
Sat in the Heat
Lake Disappointment
The Noose
Eric Bass – I Had a Name
Credit: Sanjay Parikh
Shinedown’s Eric Bass will release his debut album I Had a Name on February 21, 2025.
The record is a concept album.
Eric said: “We live in a world right now where music gets homogenized and maybe everything sounds and feels the same. I wanted to create something different and I hope listeners hear that.
“Lyrically and emotionally I hope it empowers them and they can see themselves in the characters and stories I sing about.
“We all go through dark times and hardships, but there’s always a way out. I think that’s what being a human being is about. I feel like Earth is a test and we’re here to prove ourselves, go through things and come out better on the other side.
“I’ve spoken about my struggles with depression and neurodivergent issues before.
“When I finished writing this record, I looked back at these characters I’ve created and realized I’d written the most autobiographical record of my life, which wasn’t conscious as I was writing it.
“The album is an epic odyssey. I don’t want mental health to be an ‘angle’ that obscures that.
“But I don’t mind talking about it. Anytime I talk about it, I hope it’s helpful to someone else.
Tracklist:
A World Unseen
The New Gods Of War
Azalia
We Can’t Go Home
Goodnight Goodnight
Mind Control
New Graves
All Good Children – Our Guts
Modenhardt
Dead Inside
The Churches Of The Dead
Wanna Go To Hell
Hands Like Houses – ATMOSPHERICS
Hands Like Houses will release new album ATMOSPHERICS on February 14, 2025, through Civilians!
It is a 16 track double album split into four parts – Tropo(sphere), Strato(sphere), Meso(sphere) and Thermo(sphere).
It is the first album to feature the band’s new frontman Josh Raven.
“The idea for Atmospherics came during one of the low parts of our career” say Joel Tyrrell.
“Everything we knew had been swept away, and we really didn’t know if we would continue on as a band so we had to dig deep together and talk about what we wanted. Some of our happiest moments have been with the band so we wanted to re-shape our future.
“The idea of floating through the different layers of the atmosphere to see what we could all see, hear and create together painted such a nice picture for how things were flowing with the introduction of our new singer, Josh. Volume wasn’t the goal, but the spark had been lit and the idea’s were flowing, so we just kept adding layers to the Atmosphere. We have removed the pressure we used to place on ourselves.
“The songs didn’t have to fit a sound for an album, it can just exist as a moment in time, for that particular layer of the atmosphere.”
Tracklist:
TROPO
Heaven
Better Before
bloodrush
Paradise
STRATO
24 Hours
Hollow
Panic
Wildfire
MESO
The Devil of Decisions
Hurts Like Hell (with Normandie)
Obey (Ft Kellin Quinn)
Chemicals
THERMO
Fatally Fractured
ICU
Parasite
The End
Welly – Big in the Suburbs
Welly will release debut album Big in the Suburbs on March 21, 2025.
On the titular track’s place in the album, Welly said: “This is the market stall for the album, the contents page, the intro sequence, the theme song. Think the intro to ‘Thomas The Tank Engine’. We meet our motley crew in each verse – the neighbours, the foul families, the love interests, the ugly pets.”
On the album itself, Welly said: “I could say something very clever about suburban tableaus, provincial minuets, the motifs of traffic, dead end roads and big fish in small ponds, but that would be silly. This is the child’s first painting going on the fridge. I’m very proud of this. It’s fun, and music hasn’t been fun for a long time, especially British music. This is a lob in the right direction. It took 6 years to write and 6 weeks to record. The band and I did it all ourselves at my Dad’s house in Scotland. It’s DIY and not out of choice, but out of budget. Charity shop instruments, solid gold mentalities.”
Tracklist:
Newshapes – A Conversation With Myself
Eidola – Mend
Eidola will release new album Mend on January 17, 2025, through Blue Swan Records/Rise Records.
Andrew Michael Wells said: “With Mend, we’re not holding back; we’re pushing the boundaries of what this band has always been about.
“Coming off of Eviscerate, Mend feels like the other side of the same coin – a fierce, powerful continuation of the themes that shape our work. If this track is just the beginning, we’re ready to take listeners to places they’ve never been with us before.”
Tracklist:
Brahman: Garden Of Eden
Prodigy
Empire Of Light
My Father’s House
Kaleidoscope
A Pearl In A Dead Sea
Blood In The Water
Renaissance
What It Means To Be Alone
Restore Me
The Faustian Spirit
Godhead: First Temple
Revelation: The Infinite Beauty Of Oneness
Scour – Gold
Credit: Malcolm Pugh
Scour will release new album Gold on February 21, 2025 through Nuclear Blast.
The supergroup is made up of Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), John Jarvis (Nest, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index), and Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, Lock Up).
Tracklist:
Cross
Blades
Infusorium
Ornaments
Coin
Evil
Devil
Contaminated
Hell
Invoke
Gold
Angels
Serve
