New Hope for the Wretched is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Plasmatics.

Stiff Records fired Miller, and the album was finished by engineer Ed Stasium and manager Rod Swenson over in England.

In addition to songs like "Corruption" and "Living Dead", linked to TV smashing and automobile destruction, the song "Butcher Baby" featured, as with the live shows, a chainsaw sawing through a guitar in place of a guitar solo.

The album was re-released in 2001 by Plasmatics Media, Inc. with bonus tracks and the Metal Priestess EP on the same disc.

In 2014, Let Them Eat Viny] re-released the album (including the 2002 CD bonus tracks) as two coloured discs.