In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for 10 recently announced albums and EPs.
All Time Low – Everyone’s Talking
All Time Low will release new album Everyone’s Talking on October 17.
It is their 10th full-length album, which comes as the band celebrates 20 years in the business, and will be released on their own Basement Noise Records, in partnership with Photo Finish Records/Virgin Music Group.
The Vintage Caravan – Portals
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The Vintage Caravan will release new album Portals on September 26 through Napalm Records.
The Icelandic prog rockers said: “We proudly present our sixth studio album, Portals. It’s our most diverse, dynamic, experimental album and in our opinion, our best effort yet.
“Portals was recorded at Arda Recorders in Porto, Portugal in October 2024 with Axel ‘Flexi’ Árnason, with whom we worked on Voyage (2012), Arrival (2015) and the Monuments Tour (2023). This is the first time we recorded on tape and we are so happy with the results. We feel that this time we really managed to capture our live energy.
“The title of the album is a nod to the city of Porto and connecting the songs are a series of interludes which we call “Portals” that set the mood and bring you to the next track. We can’t wait for you to experience the journey that is Portals!”
Tracklist:
Philosopher (ft. Mikael Åkerfeldt)
Portal I
Days Go By
Portal II
Here You Come Again
Current
Give and Take
Portal III
Crossroads
Alone
Portal IV
Freedom
Riot
Electrified
Portal V
My Aurora
This Road
Surfaced – Where Angels Fear to Tread
Surfaced will release new EP Where Angels Fear to Tread on August 15 through 1126 Records.
On signing to the label, the band said: “We’re stoked to be signed with 1126, the family there is great to work with, especially for a small upcoming band like us. They have faith in SURFACED as a whole.”
Tracklist:
Wasted In Hatred (Feat. Serration)
Safe In The Presence of Evil
Buried In…
…The Weight You Chose To Carry (Feat. Mauled)
A Petal Of Ash
Another Mistake
Ray Hawthorne – Ray Hawthorne Isn’t Real
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Ray Hawthorne will release his second album Ray Hawthorne Isn’t Real on August 14.
Ray said: “Have you ever been so pissed off that you wrote a whole series of songs and then deleted most of them because they included too much personal information about the person you were pissed off at but then one of them was actually pretty fun so you released it? No? Just me? Cool.
“Well. That’s my story. Listen to it if you want a first hand perspective on feeling like you’re getting back at someone but in all actuality you’re just pretending you’re both still cool with each other for some reason. Or just like… turn your brain off and have fun because I say the F word a lot in the chorus.”
Tracklist:
Come Ruin My Life Real Quick
Giving a Duck
Bath Salt Cigarettes
Call This Quits
Lately
I Don’t Hate You
Real to You
Shake
Tell Me You’re Okay
Do Something
And the Horse You Rode in On
The Girl With the Fake Hair
About Last Night
Melt Down
The Reel You
Igorrr – Amen
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Igorrr will release new album Amen on September 19 through Blade!
Gautier Serre said: “This album is definitely darker than its predecessors, it has such a very weighty and solemn vibe that has never been reached before in Igorrr.
“The fact that I recorded a real choir in a church helped this a lot, but above all there has been very long and meticulous work on the sound and the choice of instruments, and deep experimental research to create a unique sound design.
“Of course, because it’s an Igorrr album, there are some more colorful tracks, like ‘Blastbeat Falafel,’ ‘ADHD…’ They contrast very much with the ambient heaviness. I need tracks like these on an album, it helps to really get through it fully focused, like a shot of limoncello before the next meal.”
“It’s always difficult for me to know from where the inspiration comes.
“Music is an expression of life, and I would say everything, even what seems the most insignificant thing, can be a source of inspiration. I would say there hasn’t been one event or one experience that has lead me on a creative process, it’s more like a cumulation of everything. I love making music, my brain processes music all the time.
“You cannot imagine the amount of albums and concertos I create during my sleep. The challenge is more how to sort these ideas to keep the ones with the best potential, the ones that I won’t get bored of, the ones that I really Love — with a big letter L.”
Tracklist:
Daemoni
Headbutt
Limbo
Blastbeat Falafel
ADHD
2020
Mustard Mucous
Infestis
Ancient Sun
Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism
Étude n°120
Silence
Indecent Behaviour – Sick
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Indecent Behaviour will release new record Sick on September 26 through Long Branch Records!
Tracklist:
Grown Up
Not In A Lifetime
Chaos
Sick
Give Me Everything (Feat. Air Drawn Dagger)
I Fell In Love Every Weekend
Shoot
Pointless
Black Water
No Direction
If I Had Two Lives
The Story Never Ends (Ft. All To Get Her)
Kingdom Of Giants – Burning Chrome
Kingdom Of Giants will release new EP Burning Chrome on August 29 through SharpTone Records.
“We are so excited to share our new single ‘Collide’ with you all and also announce our new EP Burning Chrome,” the band said.
“You waited four years for our last release and we vow to never do you like that again.“
Tracklist:
Tune Me Out
Collide
Lead Me Back
Cold Burn
Taste Of Poision
Digital Hell
FAUN – Hex
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Pagan folk rockers FAUN will release new album Hex on September 5 through Pagan Folk Records.
The new album sees FAUN return to their musical roots with mystical, archaic folk and enchanted ballads.
Tracklist:
Belladonna
Lament
Nimue (feat. Chelsea Wolfe)
Blot
Zauberin
Lady Isobel
Black Eyed Dog
Vals
Ylfa Spere
Hare Spell
Umay (feat. Fatma Turgut)
Alfar
RIPE – Play the Game
RIPE will release new album Play the Game on September 19 through Glassnote Records!
The band said: “This album is about the games we are all constantly playing to try and make the most of our lives.
“These moments that are both playful and stressful, the wins and losses always collapsing into each other so quickly that it all starts to feel like one long river ride. Somehow RIPE is lucky enough to have built an entire world out of a group of friends making noise in a basement, and ‘Play the Game’ is RIPE shooting from the basement to the stars, hoping to be its own footnote in the lineage of all our favorite bands.”
Arrows In Action – I Think I’ve Been Here Before
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Arrows In Action will release new album I Think I’ve Been Here Before on September 19 through Nettwerk!
The band said: “The second half of I Think I’ve Been Here Before will lead you into a groovier, sexier, sleeker vibe with a splash of sentiment. With ‘Cheekbones’ leading the charge for this new feel for the band, Side B explores attraction, longing, desperation, and the fear of loss, all packaged in a shiny pop-rock sound.”
Tracklist:
Celebration
Feel It Again
Hello Sunlight!
Light Like You
Lost in The Moment
Déjà Vu
Empty Canvas
Cheekbones
Corner of Your Mind
Nobody Told Me
Stay Awake
