Appropriately enough for a band named New Years Day, their stunning new ‘Unbreakable’ album signifies a new outlook, as well as a high-water mark for the Cali-bred lineup. Yet it was a rocky road to ‘Unbreakable’, as singer Ash Costello explains: ‘If I had to look at my life like a timeline of colors, when I wrote our last album, ‘Malevolence’ (2015), it was pitch, charcoal black. But in the last couple years, the band cut off toxic people, built a new business team, and we’re stronger than we’ve ever been. So when we went to make ‘Unbreakable’, I wanted the process to be fun, to reflect our renewed vibe and energy,’ she says. ‘We set out to write the poppiest metal album, or the most metal pop album.’ On ‘Unbreakable’, that mission is accomplished. It’s a dozen intense, boundary-melding songs that may touch on metal or goth, but are ultimately undeniable modern rock ‘n’ roll tunes, no-holds-barred, done the New Years Day way.

Disc 1
1. Come for Me – New Years Day
2. Missunderstood – New Years Day
3. Skeletons – New Years Day
4. Unbreakable – New Years Day
5. Shut Up – New Years Day
6. Done With You – New Years Day
7. Poltergeist – New Years Day
8. Break My Body – New Years Day
9. Sorry Not Sorry – New Years Day
10. My Monsters – New Years Day
11. Nocturnal – New Years Day
12. I Survived – New Years Day