In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for eight albums and EPs that have recently been announced.
Great American Ghost – Tragedy in the Commons
Credit: Dominique D’Costa
Great American Ghost will release new album Tragedy in the Commons on January 31, 2025, through SharpTone Records.
Vocalist Ethan Harrison said: “We are a political band, and we always have been. We integrate ‘extreme views’ into what we do, which is ‘extreme music’. Rather than write another generally political album, we tried to play into broader themes of hopelessness.
“Normal people are losing control on a constant basis. Tragedy Of The Commons is a statement about exploitation. If two people share finite resources, one person will eventually exploit those resources and hurt the other person.
“Citizens don’t have enough money to eat and live in this country, but our government is spending billions on funding other armies around the world that are being used to kill other poor people. Tragedy Of The Commons boils down to this fundamental exploitation of the less fortunate.”
Tracklist:
Kerosene
Echoes of War
Ghost In Flesh
Writhe
Genocide
Chapel Paralysis
Reality//Relapse
God Is A Loaded Gun
HENGE – Journey to Voltus B
HENGE will release new album Journey to Voltus B on January 31, 2025, through Cosmic Dross Records.
Paradise Fell. – Songs for Ur Head
Credit: Jordan Hare
Paradise Fell. will release debut mixtape Songs for Ur Head on February 28, 2025, through Fly Tip Records.
Tracklist:
welcome to a world of beautiful chaos.
fall in // fall out
NADIYA.
(interlude)
BEAUTIFUL LIFE.
overdose.
Abduction – Existentialismus
Credit: Jack Armstrong
Abduction will release new album Existentialismus on February 21, 2025, through Candlelight.
Vocalist A/V said: “The most obvious expansion is in the voice.
“I felt that vocally, I had more freedom to express the lyrics and messages with fewer genre leashes. Given the themes of pain, frustration, and fear involved, it made sense to convey that in its most natural state rather than performing to certain expectations. The vocals and lyrics are important to me, so I let them breathe and counterpoint the bands playing.”
The album was recorded as a full band for the first time.
“It’s inspired by the juxtaposition of this horrible post-truth era with its contradictions and the simple, metaphorical truths that began in ancient religions of the crumbling past. Somewhere between a biblical gospel and a Nietzschean nightmare.
“As a father, there’s a particular terror in seeing all that our grandfathers built, physically and morally, being torn apart and reduced to a commodity and wondering what kind of world my son will inherit.”
“I am by no means a philosopher – I desperately lack the patience – but my observations of the modern Western humane race have become particularly bleak, and this informs my lyrical writing process. Art as a reaction to life and experience. This is laid out in the first track, ‘A Legacy of Sores’, which posits that most of us here, in the current year, have become an alarming pairing of being both too sensitive and yet without any core beliefs to stand on. (‘Wet skin now paper thin, reveals a core of dust’) I think this is a mixture of a post-religious society and the acceleration of technology to the point at which its claws are deeply in us. Have you tried to live without a smartphone recently?”
Tracklist:
A Legacy of Sores
Pyramidia Liberi
Truth is as Sharp a Sword as Vengeance
Blau ist die Farbe der Ewigkeit
Razors of Occam
Vomiting at Baalbek
The Night Flight Orchestra – Give us the Moon
Credit: Linda Florin
The Night Flight Orchestra will release album Give us the Moon on January 31, 2025 through Napalm Records.
The band said: “We have never worked harder on an album before and what a journey it’s been. We feel that this album has it all and there’s no way we could have done any better. It’s an explosion of emotions and cinematic landscapes where you’ll be catapulted into space and then land smoothly, while feeling right at home. It will be your haven and your grand escape all at once. We hope you will connect to this album with every fibre of your body and mind, just like we do. Please do enjoy Give Us The Moon!”
Tracklist:
Final Call (Intro)
Stratus
Shooting Velvet
Like The Beating Of A Heart
Melbourne, May I?
Miraculous
Paloma
Cosmic Tide
Give Us The Moon
A Paris Point Of View
Runaways
Way To Spend The Night
Stewardess, Empress, Hot Mess (And The Captain Of Pain)
Rum Jungle – Recency Bias
Credit: Joe Puxley
Run Jungle will release debut album Recency Bias on February 21.
Benny said: “What’s special to us is that we’ve come out the other end with something we each love and are extremely proud of.”
Tracklist:
Hi Hello
Don’t Be A Stranger
Weather’s Better
What’s It Like
Mad Man
What’s It Like
Chauffeur
Rocketship
Always on Your Good Side
Alright
Notice
Backwards
Pass You By
The Five Hundred – Ghostwriter
Credit: Shaun Hodson
The Five Hundred will release their third album Ghostwriter on February 28, 2025, through Prime Collective.
The band said: “With ‘GHOSTWRITER,’ we invite you to confront the darkest aspects of human nature and explore the depths of existential despair.
“Brace yourself for an immersive musical experience that will leave you haunted and shaken to the core, as you navigate the treacherous waters of a world on the brink of collapse.”
Tracklist:
THE DEATH OF ALL WE KNOW feat. Siamese
RAINMAKER feat. ten56.
RUIN
NEW WORLD
IN THE DARK
DRAGGED OUT feat. As Everything Unfolds
BODIES
EMPTY HOPE
20 DAYS
ECHOES
CHAOS SERMON feat. Sikth
WHERE IS OUR HUMANITY?
The Hellacopters – Overdriver
The Hellacopters will release new album Overdriver on January 31, 2025, through Nuclear Blast Records.
