In this week’s New Records Round Up, we bring you teasers for 10 recently announced albums.
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – Troubled Paradise
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts will release new EP Troubled Paradise on October 16 through Gypsy Rose Records.
“I want to do something that means something to people,” Tuk says, “because a lot of shit nowadays is so disposable and so plastic. I just don’t connect with that. I’d like to do things that impact people positively.
“It’s a weird time on the planet, so to have songs about hope, but not be cheesy about it, it’s something I think we need with songwriting. That’s the kind of music I want to hear.
“Rock ’n’ roll is essentially the illusion of not giving a fuck, right? Like, you know Axl Rose was doing sit-ups and jump rope, and Paul Stanley was on a cardio machine, and they come out and act like it just happens. The point is I sit at that piano many hours, working on this stuff.”
Tracklist:
Runnin’ With The Wild Ones
Sadie Mae
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Ho99o9 – Tomorrow we Escape
Credit: Nick Fancher
Ho99o9 will release new album Tomorrow we Escape on September 9.
“When we started this process, we knew we wanted to make more relatable songs,” says theOGM.
“It was a healthy challenge to focus on emotion. In the past, a lot of our material was politically charged. That element is present to a degree, but we wanted to take a more personal route. This mindset drove how we wrote songs. Everybody has a struggle. The goal is to find motivation for preservation.”
Helloween – Giants & Monsters
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Helloween will release new album Giants & Monsters on August 29 through Reigning Phoenix.
“What keeps motivating us is the fact that we’re extremely different. It generates creative energy,” says guitarist Michael Weikath.
Kai Hansen adds: “We try not to take ourselves and everything around us too seriously.”
Deris said: “In the end, we’re just seven guys who want to make music and enjoy the incomparable force that arises when we’re together. HELLOWEEN is way more powerful than the sum of its parts.”
Tracklist:
Giants On The Run
Saviour Of The World
A Little Is A Little Too Much
We Can Be Gods
Into The Sun
This Is Tokyo
Universe (Gravity For Hearts)
Hand Of God
Under The Moonlight
Majestic
LIV SIN – Close Your Eyes
LIV SIN will release new album Close Your Eyes on August 8 through Seek and Strike!
On the title track, LIV SIN said: “We chose the album’s title track, ‘Close Your Eyes,’ as the first single/video for mainly two reasons. We got the amazing vocalist, Lars Palmqvist from Scar Symmetry, to join us, and the song has a straight up melodic chorus that everyone was instantly hooked on.
“The song also has a darker edge to it, since it covers the topic of human trafficking. Liv got the idea for the lyrics after watching a documentary about people being tricked into trafficking across eastern Europe.
“In the video, we tried to recreate the feeling of being all alone in a dark room with different strangers coming and going. Liv sings and screams out her inner frustrations reflecting on the world today with a deep longing for a better world.”
Tracklist:
Praise The Winners
Run
Close Your Eyes
Louder
It’s Not Your Life
Above The Line
The Shadow March
Shades Of The Sun
Raven
I Refuse
The Mask
Hold It Together
Hunter Oliveri – Teen Slug
Hunter Oliveri will release new album Teen Slug on August 22 through Spinefarm!
Tracklist:
DUMB
Novocain
Stranger
Spiraling Out
Get Better
Lunatics
SCUM
Queen Of The Slum
Make U Cry
Time Is Running Out
Hallelujah
My Type
Detention
Spite House – Desertion
Credit: Rose Cormier
Spite House will release new album Desertion on September 12.
The album is the band’s first on Pure Noise Records.
It focuses on grief, taking inspiration from vocalist/guitarist Max Lajoie’s grief over the loss of both of his parents.
Max said: “When I was 17, my dad passed away from suicide.
“Then 10 years later my mom called me to tell me she had cancer, and 10 days later she passed.
“Desertion is more about how these tragedies have informed so much of my life–it’s about trying to look them in the eye and reassess them as an adult. I want to move past them but I also want to take some kind of lesson from them.”
Tracklist:
Ashen Grey
Deafening Calls
Desert
Tired To The Flow
10 Days
Down The Drain
Please Know
Stale Change
Midway
Coma Dream
Safe Haven
Edenbridge – Set the Dark on Fire
Edenbridge will release new album Set the Dark on Fire on January 16, 2026, through new label Steamhammer/SPV.
Lanvall (guitar/keyboards) said: “Set The Dark On Fire sees us remain true to ourselves stylistically while making some important adjustments together with our long-standing mixing and mastering engineer Karl Groom (Threshold). The result is the most dynamic, heavy, and at the same time most melodic work to date in the history of Edenbridge.”
Greywind – Severed Heart City
Greywind will release new album Severed Heart City on September 19 through FLG.
The Irish emo duo said: “Severed Heart City is an extended allegory for the stages of trauma, and one’s inner struggle to find resolution.
“There are many roads that lead to the heart of this broken city, but there is only one bridge out – one of acceptance and hope. Our band was created after the suicide of our uncle and since then we’ve been on an intense journey of achieving some of our biggest dreams to then having everything ripped away from us.
“Severed Heart City is a place where it’s ok to be sad, depressed and feel like the whole world is against you but it’s also a place where you make sure none of those things ever make you give up on yourself or your dreams. Only you can save yourself.”
Tracklist:
Acid Rain
I.K.A.M.F.
Happy :):
Waterfall
Swerve
Make-Believe (LOVE ME)
Moon
Let’s See If You Can Float
The Scarecrow
Cope In The Coma
Hushtones – Wildflower in the Mystery
Hushtones will release new album Wildflowers in the Mystery on September 19.
The indie-poppers said the album gets its name from a Californian flower – fire poppy – and The Mystery, a park near to where the band lived in Liverpool.
The album focuses on overcoming personal issues and pushing yourself into a new phase of life.
The Youth Play – someday, forever
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The Youth Play will release new EP someday, forever on August 15.
Diego Bracho said: “The EP delves mainly into our social, environmental, and humanitarian crisis and the human experience around those. It’s a combination of frustrating and truly painful moments, and how they intersect with experiences that are hopeful and life affirming.
“It also explores self appreciation at times where you struggle to recognise your selfworth, letting go of the past and situations that are out of your reach and truly believing in yourself as the only true constant in this life. Searching for joy in times that feel joyless.”
Tracklist:
Maybe This Was All For Us
A Fair Life
If We Just Ever Were
Straight Line
Someday, Forever
Last Day On Earth
