With Flaunt It, City Built delivers a confident hip-hop anthem built around smooth production and a controlled, self-assured flow. The track rides a polished groove while celebrating independence, ambition, and unapologetic confidence. Anchored by the hook “She got her own and really don’t need me,” the song highlights modern empowerment with a balance of swagger and respect. Cinematic beats and motivational energy give Flaunt It a sleek, workout-ready vibe, making it a perfect fit for playlists centered on boss energy, confidence, and contemporary hip-hop attitude.
Tevral‘s Nocturne for Blue Sand unfolds like a quiet walk under moonlit skies, where stillness and reflection slowly take over the senses. The breathy tone of the ney introduces a feeling of distant landscapes, while the piano gently illuminates the emotional contours of the composition. As subtle triplet-based percussion enters, the track gains a soft pulse that feels like footsteps moving through the night. Atmospheric and contemplative, Nocturne for Blue Sand invites listeners into a dreamlike space where memory, travel, and stillness quietly intertwine.
Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each Friday we’ll round up some of the best new music available, some we’ve reviewed, some we haven’t, but all worth checking out!
Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!
Here’s what we think you should check out today!
ALBUM OF THE WEEK
LambofGod have nothing left to prove, yet ‘Into Oblivion’ shows why the modern metal veterans continue to be so popular.
“Lamb Of God are still kings of metal and will not be abdicating the throne anytime soon.”
And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include…
Rock
Asia – Live In England (Frontiers Music SRL) Bara – Mary Cry (Club Inferno Ent.) Dead Air – World Wide Villainy [EP] (Independent) Gotthard – More Stereo Crush (Reigning Phoenix Music) n0trixx – A Catalogue of Madness and Melancholia (tbc) Sweet Pill – Still There Is A Glow (Hopeless Records) The Gems – Year of The Snake (Napalm Records) To The Max! – Two The Max! (Go Down Records)
Heavy Metal
Ravenspell – Obsidian King (Fighter Records) Schattenmann – Endgegner (Perception) Senki – Szilánkok (WormholeDeath Records)
Against I – Anti Life (Twisted Flesh Records) Bras D’Honneur – Hate Speech (Primitive Reaction) Deadvoid Inc. – Chapters (Inverse Records) Gluttony – Eulogy to Blasphemy (FDA Records) Messticator – Total Mastery (Testimony Records) Monstrosity – Screams from Beneath the Surface (Metal Blade Records) Morbid Death – Veil of Ashes (Firecum Records) Mors.Void.Discipline – Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin) Protrusion – The Last Suppuration (Extremely Rotten Productions) Tragos – Bellicum (Fetzner Death Records) Vanta – Perpetual Selection (Independent) Voidstar Nocturnal – Nexus Teleport Fracture (Godz ov War Productions) Wielded Steel – Sins of Your Domain (1126 Records)
Deathcore
Bound In Fear – A Mind Too Sick To Heal (Unique Leader Records) Mauled – When Your Eyes Are Shit [EP] (Silverback gorilla Records / DS//FP Records)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
clâm – clâm (Independent) Fangus – Emerald Dream (From The urn records) Harvey Rushmore & The Octopus – Mindsuckers (Taxi Gauche Records) Kallohonka – Lazer Blood (Memory Terminal Records) Lord Centipede – Centipede II: Electric Boogaloo (Morbid And Miserable Records / Wyrd Byrd) Mammon’s Throne – My Body to the Worms (Hammerheart Records) Red Sun Atacama – Summerchild (Mrs Red Sound) Witchcraft – A Sinner’s Child [EP] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Lesotho – A Flashing On Plain Glass (Independent) Monosphere – Amnesia (Independent) Salos – A Slaughter for the Empire (Independent)
Punk
Exploding Head Syndrome – Confessions (Vestkyst Records) Instigators – Sanctus Propaganda Sessions Vol. 5 (Sanctus Propaganda)
Thrash Metal
Belith – Hounds of Hell (Godz ov War Productions) Hellfuck – 9 Nails Hammered Into The Flesh of God (Godz ov War Productions) Transilvania – Magia Posthuma (Invictus Productions)
… and the rest!
Angus McSix – Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye (Napalm Records) Power Metal Eihwart – Hugrheim (Season of Mist) Nordic Folk Fabienne Erni – Starveil (Northstar Media) Symphonic Metal Gong – Bright Spirit (Kscope) Prog Rock Hiraki / Meejah – Interwoven [SPLIT EP] (Pelagic Records) Noise/Post-Rock Mascara – Going Postal (Fever Ltd) Post-Hardcore Nest – Trail of the Unwary (Avantgarde Music) Neofolk Powerplant – Bridge of Sacrifice (Arcane Dynamics) Synth/Punk Shoreline – Is Theis The Low Point or The Moment After? (Pure Noise Records) Emo Punk/Hardcore Sunny Doom – Devotion (Independent) Dark Folk The Silence Industry – The Stars Above are Looking Down (Independent) Industrial/Goth Victious Rain – The Anatomy of Surviving (Arising Empire) Metalcore
Belgian instrumental outfit We Stood Like Kings return with Assassins, a powerful piano-driven post rock piece that blends neoclassical elegance with post-metal intensity. Romantic piano lines weave through crushing guitar riffs and explosive drums, creating a dramatic soundscape that feels both cinematic and visceral. The track serves as the opening chapter of the band’s upcoming concept album Pinocchio, reimagining the familiar tale through darker themes of betrayal and power.
Bold, dynamic, and emotionally charged, Assassins showcases the band’s unique ability to fuse classical sensibility with modern post rock weight.
With Trouble Maker, ASKAIØ delivers a sleek indie dance cut built for late-night club energy. Driven by pulsating beats, sharp synth hooks, and a steady groove, the track balances underground dancefloor tension with a polished, modern production style. Its hypnotic rhythm and infectious momentum make it an instant mover, designed for flashing lights and packed rooms. Blending indie dance attitude with club-ready precision, Trouble Maker stands as a confident electronic release that thrives on groove, atmosphere, and pure dancefloor appeal.
With BLOOD MOON, Melt Mars craft a hazy sonic atmosphere where warm synth textures meet shimmering indie guitars. The track drifts effortlessly between mellow psychedelic tones and modern indie sensibilities, carried by laid-back grooves and nostalgic melodies. Its dreamy arrangement creates a late-night mood, perfect for immersive headphone listening. Rather than chasing dramatic peaks, the song unfolds gently, letting its hypnotic textures and subtle emotional undercurrent guide the experience. BLOOD MOON feels both reflective and quietly infectious, capturing that suspended moment where indie pop and psych-tinged soundscapes beautifully collide.
With No Way To Love, Ghost Pavilion delivers a dark, cinematic indie track steeped in atmosphere and quiet emotional weight. Dreamy guitars intertwine with moody synth textures, unfolding over a slow, hypnotic groove that draws the listener into its introspective world. The song explores themes of grief, memory, and the lingering echoes of lost connections, capturing the fragile space between nostalgia and acceptance.
Subtle yet powerful, No Way To Love thrives on mood and restraint, offering a haunting late-night listening experience where every note feels suspended in reflection and unresolved emotion.
With This Is Not Fun, Filiah channels bottled-up frustration into a sharp and emotionally charged indie pop moment. The track unfolds gradually, beginning with restrained tension before erupting into a more expressive blend of atmospheric synths and edgy guitar textures. Her vocals carry both vulnerability and bite, reflecting the feeling of suppressed anger finally breaking through the surface. Balancing honesty with subtle wit, This Is Not Fun continues Filiah’s knack for turning personal turmoil into compelling, emotionally resonant songwriting.
Robben Ford returns in exceptional form withTwo Shades of Blue, a record defined by its sophistication, taste, and timeless musicality. The album will be released on 17 Aprilvia Provogue/Artone. To celebrate the news, he has revealed the first single from the album, Make My Own Weather.
The album opens exquisitely with the brittle groove of Make My Own Weather. “That’s one of my favourite straight-up, slamming blues things I’ve ever written,” says Ford. “It’s about a guy reclaiming his freedom. I tried to create the rumble of a motorcycle with the rhythm guitar.”
Robben Ford is a man in motion. Scan the five-time Grammy nominee’s back catalogue – a half-century hot-streak that darts between jazz, rock, fusion and blues – and you’ll find a musician in a constant state of metamorphosis. Spin new album Two Shades Of Blue – a transatlantic modern classic that shapeshifted as the sessions unfolded – and you’ll feel the risks taken and rules broken. “I have that curse,” smiles the 74-year-old guitarist. “I don’t have two records that sound the same…”
With a new album around the corner, Robben feels at the top of his game right now. To be released 17 April2026 on Artone/Provogue, Two Shades Of Blue is not the album Ford was planning to make – but it’s all the better for it. Tracked in the US and UK with two different crack-squad bands, this album paints with his inimitable palette, from the low-slung funk-blues of lead single Make My Own Weather to skyscraping instrumentals that even test the limits of a player ranked amongst the 100 Greatest Guitarists Of The 20th Century by Musician Magazine.
From his early days, Ford was a special talent. The 60s saw him backing Mississippi harp wizard Charlie Musselwhite and stretching those skills across Los Angeles with jazz giant Jimmy Witherspoon, before he fell in with the fearless adventurism of saxophonist Tom Scott’s esteemed ’70s fusion outfit, The L.A. Express.
That lineup’s blazing skills saw them recruited by Joni Mitchell for two classic albums (“the most formative two years of my musical life”), before Ford stepped out with rock royalty on George Harrison’s Dark Horse tour. That collaborative streak would continue throughout his career, from Bonnie Raitt to Bob Dylan. “I’m out there on the bandstand and this rocket ship takes off,” he recalls of his mid-’80s debut with jazz talisman Miles Davis. “For my solo, I put my head down and played every note I knew, as fast as I could. I look up, and Miles just goes: ‘Yeah’. And I’m like, ‘OK, he likes it’.”
Two Shades Of Blue was loosely sparked by Ford’s move to London, where his antennae picked up the echoes of a sadly departed British blues-boomer. In the same period, having launched the Robben Ford Guitar Dojo with partner Milam Kelly Roberts, he felt the burning urge to explore the instrument’s outer limits.
“The way this album started, I planned it as a tribute to Jeff Beck,” he recalls. “Meanwhile, the Guitar Dojo had reinvigorated my playing, so writing instrumental music became fresh for me again. I didn’t own a Stratocaster, so I literally went out and bought one for this project. Then Daniel Steinhardt from That Pedal Show put together a new pedalboard for me, along the lines of what Jeff Beck was using. I wanted to do something different, set myself a challenge.”
Loading into Eastcote Studios with engineer George Murphy, the chemistry is palpable, with Ford’s guitar and vocals leading a first-call band that takes in drummer Ianto Thomas (Mark Knopfler), keys man Jonny Henderson (Otis Grand), bassist Robin Mullarkey (Paloma Faith) and a brass section comprising of Paul Booth (saxophone), Ryan Quigley (trumpet) and Trevor Mires (trombone). “Great cats,” smiles Ford. “London has been incredible for finding musicians. This place is loaded, even better for me than Nashville or LA.” The album also features the incredible talents of bassist, Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones), Keyboardist Larry Goldings and Gary Husband on drums for the instrumental songs, The Fire Flute, The Light Fandango and Feeling’s Mutual.
“I still love to play,” he considers. “I’ve kept writing better music and become more acquainted with what it is to make a record. The fact that I’m all over the place musically has confused some people over the years. But I always need a change. I always want to do something different. And I’ve been that way since the very beginning…”
Track Listing
1. Make My Own Weather
2. Jealous Guy
3. Perfect Illusion
4. Black Night
5. Two Shades of Blue
6. Fire Flute
7. The Light Fandango
8. Feeling’s Mutual
North Queensland based Alt/Rock outfit Slippery Gypsy are back again with the release of their hard-hitting new single called ‘Poison Love’, which premiered exclusively via The Point Music News.
“Poison Love is about addiction in all its forms — whether that’s a relationship, a substance, or a pattern you keep running back to even when you know it’s wrecking you. It’s that space between denial and self-awareness — pretending you’re fine while quietly wondering if anyone makes it out the other side.”
Hailing from country towns across Australia, Slippery Gypsy are known for their
down-to-earth vibe, unfiltered songwriting, and passionate live shows. Their mix of Rock Grit, Pop sensibilities and musicianship creates a unique style driven by singer Luke’s distinct, powerful vocals.
Slippery Gypsy recently released their soaring single called ‘Stranger’, which premiered exclusively via AAA Backstage. The single was aired on over 100 radio stations worldwide and received coverage from the likes of Good Call Live, Australian Music Scene, HEAVY Mag, Learn Two Exist and AMNplify. With seven singles already released, the band is now sitting on three unreleased tracks that they believe are a cut above anything they’ve done before.
New single ‘Poison Love’ is available on all major online streaming services.
