In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for nine recently announced albums and EPs.
Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea
Credit: Jonathan Weiner
Spiritbox will release new album Tsunami Sea on March 7, 2025, through Pale Chord in partnership with Rise Records.
Tracklist:
Fata Morgana
Black Rainbow
Perfect Soul
Keep Sweet
Soft Spine
Tsunami Sea
A Haven With Two Faces
No Loss, No Love
Crystal Roses
Ride The Wave
Deep End
King Kraken – March of the Gods
King Kraken will release new album March of the Gods on April 18.
The Welsh rockers worked with Romesh Dodangoda on the 10-track album.
Vukovi – My God Has Got a Gun
Vukovi will release new album My God Has Got a Gun on January 24, 2025 through SharpTone Records.
Tracklist:
THIS IS MY LIFE AND MY TRAUMA
GUNGHO
MY GOD HAS GOT A GUN
FALLEN BEYOND
FUC KIT UP
MISTY ECSTASY
Son
COWBOY
PEEL
KITTY
BLADED
FIRE KINGDOM*
* Bonus Track — LP only
Those Damn Crows – God Shaped Hole
Bridgend rockers Those Damn Crows will release new album God Shaped Hole on April 11, 2025 through Earache Records.
“I don’t know how to write any way other than being completely honest,” says frontman Shane Greenhall.
“Maybe I’m a little too honest and reveal a bit too much of myself. But I think that’s what people connect with.
“Every album, I say, ‘This one is going to be really heavy.
“But it never really works out like that, because if you go into something with a pre-conceived idea of what you want, you will fail every single time. You have to let the music choose, that’s how I see it.”
“I almost feel like this is an album of singles.
“It’s like a playlist, it shows off the range of music we love more than any album we’ve done. There’s so many different flavours, but it’s all still recognisable as us.”
Tracklist:
Dancing With The Enemy
Fake
Dreaming
No Surrender
The Night Train
Turn It Around
Spit & Choke
Still
Keg – Fun’s Over
Credit: Theo Zeal
Keg will release debut album Fun’s Over on March 14 through Alcopop! Records!
Tracklist:
Photo Day
Father Charles
I’d Fly Tip for You
Strangers
Plain Words
St. Michael
Mr and Mrs Raleigh
Giving Up Fishing
Sate The Worm
Skybather
Ferryman
Bobby
Kayaking
Coheed And Cambria – The Father of Make Believe
Credit: Jimmy Fontaine
Coheed And Cambria will release new album The Father of Make Believe on March 14, 2025, through Virgin Music Group.
Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter
Memphis May Fire will release album number nine, Shapeshifter, on March 28, 2025, through Rise Records.
“‘Shapeshifter’ reflects the struggle of wrestling with identities and the need to confront the masks we wear,” says frontman Matty Mullins.
“This track, and the entire album, is about exposing those parts of ourselves we often keep hidden. It’s a journey through the layers of deception, self-reflection, and the struggle to find what’s genuine in a world full of pretense. We wanted ‘Shapeshifter’ to embody that feeling of losing and finding yourself, over and over, until you finally see what’s real.”
Tracklist:
Chaotic
Infection
Overdose
Paralyzed
Hell Is Empty
Necessary Evil
The Other Side
Shapeshifter
Versus
Love Is War
Courting – Lust For Life Or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story
Credit: Charlie Barclay Harris
Courting will release new album Lust For Life Or: How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story on March 14, 2025, through Lower Third.
Tracklist:
Intro
Stealth Rollback
Pause At You
Namcy
Eleven Sent (This Time)
After You
Lust For Life
Likely Place
Killswitch Engage – This Consequence
Killswitch Engage will release new album This Consequence on February 21, 2025, through Metal Blade Records.
Vocalist Jesse Leach said: “‘This Consequence’, to me, is the combination of everything the past five years has thrown at us as a band, as humans, and society as a whole. This album is just as much about everybody and their stories as it is for me about my journey personally. Sonically, I love the combination of everybody’s ideas and contributions on this album. It feels more like a collaboration than the past few records have been. When all is said and done, I wouldn’t change anything about this album.”
He finishes: “I think it’s the exact record we needed to make. I’m honoured and proud of what we all were able to create and refine through this music and message.”
Tracklist:
Abandon Us
Discordant Nation
Aftermath
Forever Aligned
I Believe
Where It Dies
Collusion
The Fall of Us
Broken Glass
Requiem
