In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for 10 recently announced albums and EPs.
Electron – Is This Worth Living For?
Credit: Rob Blackham
Electron will release new record Is This Worth Living For? on October 2.
Tracklist:
Trap
Lie To Me
Dying To Feel Alive
You Betray
Toxic
Echoes Of A Dying World
Taken (feat. Benji Webbe)
Insomnia
Tether
Bleeding Heart
Burning Inside (live)
Echoes Of A Dying World (live)
You Betray (live)
Any Given Sin – Until We Disappear
Credit: Until We Disappear
Any Given Sin will release new album Until We Disappear on November 20, through Mascot Records.
“The lyrics definitely happen in seclusion,” affirms guitarist Mike Connor.
“Victor and I have spent many nights in motels just writing words on paper until 3am, no matter when we need to wake up.
“He’ll write a cool line and show it to me and ask, ‘What do you think?’ I’ll share my own idea. It’s a long and meticulous process, but it’s really open. We’re speaking truthfully to one another. We’re dealing with darker subjects like sadness and depression. That’s usually what comes out in almost every song.”
“It took a long time for us to make it this far and we’re going to kick it in the ass until we can’t do it anymore. I’ve gotten a lot of messages from people who will tell us our songs got them through hard times. We hope to bring listeners comfort.”
Tracklist:
Like You
Until We Disappear
Everything Hurts
Peace of Mind
Lifeline
Down Under
All That Remains
Through Hell
Blown Away
Neverborn
Rest For The Wicked
Half Me – Dogma
Half Me will release new album Dogma on October 23 through Arising Empire.
The album sees the Germans push their sound more than ever before.
Skáld – Ørlǫg
Skáld will release new album Ørlǫg on September 25 through Napalm Records.
Hippotraktor – Annihilist
Credit: Sam Coussens
Hippotraktor will release new album Annihilist on October 2 through Pelagic Records.
Tracklist:
I Breathe, I Am
Courageous Apathy
Builder of Eden
Oblivion Walker
Annihilist
Everything Is Permissible
A Different Now
Future Static – Ornaments & Memories
Future Static will release new album Ornaments & Memories on November 6 through Wild Thing Records.
Vocalist Amariah Cook said: “I wanted this album to display growth not just as a vocalist and song-writer but also as a human being.
“Since Liminality was inspired by a stagnant lifestyle, Ornaments & Memories naturally became the musical journey of what it feels like to start setting yourself up for a life worth living – settling into core values and understanding how to handle the ever-growing emotional range that comes with caring more.
“All of these themes came through better than I could have ever hoped pouring it all into the most dramatic and genre-bending heavy music that my best friends and I could conjure.”
Tracklist:
Ephemeral
There’s Nowhere Else To Go
Swing
Dream Suite
The Picture in You
Off The Map
Closer Than You Think
Ornaments & Memories
State of Mind
Odyssey
Waterworks
Subcritical Flow
Lux
Exist Immortal – Afterglow
Exist Immortal will release new record Afterglow on September 11 through Seek & Strike.
“The opening statement and the most complete thing we’ve made to date,” the band explain of the title track.
“It sets the tone for everything the EP is about, facing the wreckage head-on and choosing to rebuild against all odds. If you want to know where we are as a band right now, start here.
“Afterglow is the sound of us finding out what this band actually is.
“We wrote and rebuilt it through a period of real upheaval, a lineup change, personal challenges, health challenges and a stretch that tested whether we’d keep going at all. Somehow it came out the most assured, most deliberate thing we’ve ever made.”
Tracklist:
Something, Somewhere
Fail To Find
Afterglow
Stuck In Motion
Shadow Work
Hector Gannet – The Great Shakedown
Hector Gannet will release new record The Great Shakedown on October 23 through Guga Records.
Skillet – After the Storm
Credit: Jimmy Fontaine
Skillet will release new EP After the Storm on October 9.
“After the Storm is special to me because it reignites what Skillet was always meant to be—which is music that helps lift people out of dark times,” says John Cooper.
“I wrote these songs because I needed to be lifted out of my own darkness.”
Tracklist:
Scream
Lift Me Up
Grave Stomper
After The Storm
Heaven Help Us
Come and Find Me
Marital Bed – Marital Bed
Credit: Ryan Roberts
Marital Bed will release their self-titled debut album on December 4.
Tracklist:
Real Life Romance
Our Favorite Game
Incompatible
Boys In the Band
Ghost
Goodbye
He or She
Simulacrum
