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Feuerschwanz recasts “Gangnam Style” in folk-metal armor with violin and bagpipes, while Shadow Of Intent teams with Corpsegrinder for “Feeding The Meatgrinder”—a track steeped in deathcore heft and post-2014 ferocity. Epica’s “Aspiral” receives a symphonic live treatment, Warkings’ “Armageddon” revisits Viking raids through martial riffs, and Heaven Shall Burn issues dissent in “My Revocation Of Compliance.” Knosis, H.E.A.T, Ultra Vomit, and House Of Protection round out April 2025 with sharp entries in metal, parody, and hybrid punk. Here are the brand new hard rock, metal…. songs that caught, these past days, our aural interest and visual liking. Beware (possibly) NSFW |
53 . Feuerschwanz – Gangnam Style
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
Feuerschwanz reimagine “Gangnam Style” through their folk-metal prism, layering PSY’s viral anthem with violin, bagpipes, and electric grit. They approach the track as a “ritual,” welding comedic choreography—honed via dedicated dance lessons—to martial sonics and theatrics. Presented as the sole cover on their twelfth studio album, this version reframes the original’s satire with medieval pageantry and distorted riffs. 
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52 . Shadow Of Intent – Feeding The Meatgrinder (w/ Corpsegrinder)
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
“Feeding The Meatgrinder” pairs deathcore outfit Shadow Of Intent with George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher of Cannibal Corpse, a fixture of death metal’s blunt-force aesthetics. The track delivers pulverizing precision, shaped by Shadow Of Intent’s post-2014 approach that veers between sci-fi theatrics and grim realism. The collaboration taps into the band’s darker leanings, a tonal lineage traceable from “Primordial” through “Melancholy.”
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51 . Epica – Aspiral [Live At The Symphonic Synergy]
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
“Aspiral [Live At The Symphonic Synergy]” unfolds with Epica backed by a full orchestra and choir at AFAS Live in Amsterdam. The track serves as the title piece of their ninth studio album, drawing influence from the sculptural concepts of Stanisław Szukalski. Guest vocalists Marcela Bovio, Linda Janssen, and Marjan Welman reinforce Simone Simons’ lead vocals, underpinning the dense choral textures arranged by Maria van Nieukerken. Music video directed by : Jens De Vos – Song featured on the album : Aspiral
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50 . Warkings – Armageddon
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
“Armageddon” recounts the 793 Viking assault on the Lindisfarne monastery, a coastal raid that leaves England’s defenses exposed and monastic walls in ruin. Warkings channel the chaos through pounding riffs and martial rhythms, reconstructing a historical fracture point with all the subtlety of an axe through vellum. Released in 2025, the song lends its name to the album, staying faithful to the band’s chronicle of bloodstained legends.
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49 . Heaven Shall Burn – My Revocation Of Compliance
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
Heaven Shall Burn returns with “My Revocation Of Compliance,” a jagged manifesto from their forthcoming tenth album. Framed by the serrated riffs of Maik Weichert and Marcus Bischoff’s uncompromising vocal grit, the track severs ties with what the band calls “candy-coated speeches.” It issues a terse warning rather than an invitation, channeling a mood less about plea, more about precision-guided dissent.
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48 . Knosis – Shinmon
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
“Shinmon” serves as Knosis’ industrial-metalcore entry, where Ryo Kinoshita alternates between throat-scorching howls and near-angelic melodics, as if auditioning for two bands at once. Released in April 2025, the track rides the momentum of their debut album campaign, pairing sonic aggression with deliberate precision. Formed in 2023, Knosis blends the sensibilities of Kinoshita and Yosh Morita, bridging Crystal Lake’s fury with The Hide Out’s polish. |
47 . H.E.A.T – Running To You
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
“Running To You” pairs H.E.A.T’s taste for melodic hard rock with a galloping urgency that leans heavily into 80s aesthetics, equal parts arena ambition and vintage synthesizer polish. Kenny Leckremo’s vocals channel a strident theatricality that gestures unapologetically at his rock forebears without slipping into pure pastiche. Dave Dalone laces the track with flashy, tightly wound guitar lines that favor precision over excess. Song featured on the album : Welcome To The Future
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46 . Ultra Vomit – Tikawahukwa
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
“Tikawahukwa” is a caffeinated burst from French parody metal band Ultra Vomit, blending absurd humor with aggressive riffs in an ode to atomic coffee beans and insomniac nights. Infused with jittery enthusiasm, the video gathers Andréas Martin, GRU, Nagisa Morimoto, and Freaky Hoody around a brew-fueled spectacle. True to their roots since “M. Patate,” the band serves what they call a “massive dose of sonic caffeine.” Music video directed by : Julien Josselin – Song featured on the album : Ultra Vomit Et Le Pouvoir De La Puissance
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45 . House Of Protection – Fire
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Date Added : Apr 19,2025
In “Fire,” House Of Protection pairs thrashing punk guitars with piercing sirens, a sonic signature that refuses subtlety. The track echoes the aggressive experimentalism of the duo’s former band, FEVER 333, without replicating it. Produced with Jordan Fish—once of Bring Me the Horizon—”Fire” plays like a controlled detonation, part of the EP “It’s Supposed to Hurt,” where electronica, hardcore, and punk collide with little interest in genre etiquette.
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44 . Ghost – Lachryma
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
“Lachryma” marks Ghost’s second single from their upcoming sixth album *Skeletá*, introducing new frontman Papa V Perpetua with a carefully peeled-back theatrical mask. Titled after the Latin word for “tear,” the track traces the aftermath of a decaying relationship through lyrics soaked in gothic melancholy and barbed romanticism. Lines like “ripping through every poem like a vampire should” offer a poetic bite to the ruins of intimacy. The accompanying video mirrors the song’s emotional desolation with a woman pursued by a vampiric figure, only to flip the narrative and reclaim her ground. Ghost, the Grammy-winning band from Linköping, debuted with “Opus Eponymous” in 2010 and later saw “Cirice” from *Meliora* earn a Grammy in 2016. Song featured on the album : Skeletá
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43 . Epica – Fight To Survive
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
“Fight to Survive” by Epica melds cinematic textures with dense guitar work, channeling a sensory response rooted in the Overview Effect—an existential vertigo triggered by glimpsing Earth from orbit. Lyrically, it parses chaos and unity in lines like “Peace exists in chaos; our hearts should trust we can turn the tide.” The video pairs sci-fi imagery with human fragility, underscoring the band’s leaning into cosmological musings without abandoning terrestrial angst. Music video directed by : Remko Tielemans – Song featured on the album : Aspiral
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42 . Behemoth – Lvciferaeon
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
Released in April 2025 on Nuclear Blast, “Lvciferaeon” sees Behemoth fusing their raw black metal origins with orchestral flourishes under the direction of producer Nergal. The track leans into themes of rebellion and emancipation, casting Lucifer not as villain but as insurgent, rising from Eden’s ashes with blade in hand. The video matches this tone, staging celestial warfare through ritual and imagery soaked in symbolic defiance. Music video directed by : Grupa 13 – Song featured on the album : The Shit Ov God
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41 . Katatonia – Lilac
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
“Lilac” pivots between distorted churn and brooding melody, as Jonas Renkse delivers a vocal performance equal parts restraint and grit. Progressive metal structures intertwine with gothic textures, underpinned by shifting tempos and atmospheric weight. Newcomers Nico Elgstrand and Sebastian Svalland inject fresh guitar layers, marking the band’s post-Nyström recalibration. Production credit lands with Renkse, engineering by Lawrence Mackrory, mixed by Adam Noble and mastered by Robin Schmidt. Song featured on the album : Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
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40 . Warkings – Armageddon
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
“Armageddon” by Warkings channels the 793 AD Viking raid on Lindisfarne, tracing the ash-streaked chaos left by axes and fire. The track, released via Napalm Records, presents the assault not just as carnage, but as an epochal shift—the curtain rise of the Viking Age. The bassist, credited as The Viking, frames the attack as apocalyptic through monastic eyes: their world ending under northern steel. Performing in medieval cosplay, the quartet—The Tribune, The Crusader, The Viking, and The Spartan—operate under warrior aliases borrowed more from fantasy than footnotes. Since 2018, they channel historic conflicts into metal albums like “Reborn” and “Morgana,” trading subtlety for scale and narrative force.
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39 . Ghost Bath – Well. I Tried Drowning
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
Ghost Bath’s “Well, I Tried Drowning,” released via Nuclear Blast in April 2025, filters depressive black metal through a post-metal haze dense with reverb and anguish. Produced by Dennis Mikula, the track pairs wailing guitars with verses steeped in morbid poetry, where throats are slit in dreams and lungs flood in silence. The video’s slow-burning visuals of shadowy silhouettes echo the song’s fixation on despair, futility, and failed transcendence. Music video directed by : Claudio Marino – Song featured on the album : Rose Thorn Necklace
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38 . Phantom Elite – Slow Burn (w/ Jules Mitch)
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
With “Slow Burn,” Phantom Elite taps into brooding modern metal, pairing Marina La Torraca’s commanding delivery with Jules Mitch of SETYØURSAILS, whose vocal agility complements the track’s emotional intensity. Recorded at Treehouse Studio, the song trades in heavy riffs and lyrical friction, channeling personal chaos through tightly-wound composition. Their interplay reads less like a duet, more like a psychological standoff set to progressive alt-metal.
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37 . Before The Dawn – As Above. So Below
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
“As Above, So Below” marks Before The Dawn’s return to single releases after their 2023 comeback with “Stormbringers.” Released in April 2025, the track walks a sharp line between melodic death metal and gothic gloom, led by Tuomas Saukkonen’s multi-instrumental handiwork. Recorded at guitarist Juho Räihä’s studio, the song threads Hermetic duality through layers of aggression and somber hooks. New vocalist Paavo Laapotti steps in following the band’s 11-year hiatus.
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36 . Crematory – My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend (w/ Michelle Darkness)
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
Crematory reimagines “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend,” Type O Negative’s mischievous ode to polyamory, adding Michelle Darkness of End Of Green for a duet that leans into somber theatrics. With industrial flourishes and a vocal delivery nodding to Pete Steele’s infamous baritone, the cover toes the line between homage and reinvention. The video pairs gothic neon, vintage cars, and retro noir visuals with the song’s tongue-in-cheek sensuality. Music video directed by : Ingo Spörl – Song featured on the album : Destination
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35 . Luna Kills – Love U
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
Luna Kills’ “Love U,” released March 2025 under Out of Line Music, dissects modern heartbreak with a taste for emotional contradictions and pop-rock melancholia. The Finnish alt-metal quartet leans into raw lyricism—”I love you but I hate myself for it” hits like a note passed in class no one was meant to read aloud. Distorted guitars shimmer beneath confessions of codependency, striking a balance between self-loathing and devotion with calculated poise. Song featured on the album : Grit
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34 . Moonlight Haze – Tame The Storm
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
Released via Scarlet Records in March 2025, “Tame The Storm” sees Moonlight Haze diving headfirst into heavier sonic territories, with producer Sascha Paeth at the helm. Chiara Tricarico delivers layered vocal work that oscillates between operatic precision and rock grit, all set against sweeping symphonic power metal arrangements. Lyrically, the track chronicles a defiant reckoning with one’s demons, laced with lines about reclaiming agency and brushing off the darkness like lint on velvet. Music video directed by : Marco Falanga & Beatrice Demori – Song featured on the album : Beyond
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33 . Stateside – Stay Sweet (w/ Knuckle Puck)
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Date Added : Apr 14,2025
“Stay Sweet” pairs Stateside’s harsh-edged pop-punk with Joe Taylor of Knuckle Puck, resulting in a track that wades through the debris of youth with flannel-clad nostalgia. The lyrics flirt with the myth of teenage permanence, only to undercut it with a wink and a bruise. Backed by guitars that alternate between sugar-rush and sandpaper, the song nods toward The Wonder Years and The Story So Far without imitating either. Song featured on the album : Where You Found Me
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32 . Machine Head – Bønescraper
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
“Bønescraper,” the second single off Machine Head’s eleventh album via Nuclear Blast Records, navigates love’s aftermath under a haze of grief and grit. The band frames it as a descent into inner darkness, pairing anguish with defiance in under four minutes of groove-drenched precision and unexpected key shifts. Its music video layers fire, water, and nightmarish fauna to echo the track’s brooding intensity. Music video directed by : Mike Sloat – Song featured on the album : Unatøned,
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31 . Shinedown – Dance. Kid. Dance
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
“Dance, Kid, Dance” critiques the pharmaceutical quick-fix culture targeting childhood behavior, offering Shinedown’s sharpest side-eye to medicated obedience. With lyrics that jab at prescribed normality and toe-tapping rebellion, the track retools their hard rock sensibilities into something closer to a shot of irony with a post-grunge chaser. Shinedown, founded in Jacksonville in 2001, built early success with “Leave a Whisper” and the double-platinum “The Sound of Madness.”
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30 . Volbeat – In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan’S Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
Volbeat‘s “In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan’s Spawn in a Dying World of Doom” fuses heavy metal and rockabilly into a theatrical tale of ritual, exile, and scorched prophecy. With imagery of fallen angels, fevered minds, and blood red skies, the lyrics lean into the grotesque with tongue planted firmly in cheek. “I got a bloody appetite,” the narrator quips, somewhere between a preacher and a revenant in cowboy boots. Music video directed by : Shan Dan Horan – Song featured on the album : God Of Angels Trust
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29 . Skynd – Aileen Wuornos
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
“Aileen Wuornos,” SKYND’s March 2025 release, peers into the fractured psyche of a serial killer through industrial beats and macabre lyrics. Produced by Father, the track traces Wuornos’ path from abused child to convicted murderer, capturing the dissonance between victimhood and culpability. The lyrics toy with poison and penance, stitching despair into refrains like “be a horrible warning.” The video contrasts SKYND’s scarlet attire with her grayscale visage, mirroring Wuornos’ slide into violence. Music video directed by : P.R. Brown
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28 . Babymetal – From Me To U (w/ Poppy)
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
“From Me To U” pairs Babymetal’s sharp-edged kawaii metal with Poppy’s clipped shouts and alt-metal brushstrokes. Set in a hyper-stylized Neo Tokyo, the video’s choreography teeters between synchronized precision and chaos under glittering LEDs and grayscale skylines. Both acts comment on mutual artistic interest, with the collaboration balancing pop theatrics and guitar-driven abrasion without picking a side. Music video directed by : Takuya Oyama – Song featured on the album : Metal Forth
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27 . Gates To Hell – 21 Sacraments
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
“21 Sacraments” by Gates To Hell emerges from their March 2025 release via Nuclear Blast Records, channeling inspiration from the unsettling narrative of Silent Hill’s survival horror universe. The track merges hardcore’s percussive force with the dense textures of death metal, offering a sonic assault described by Ryan Storey as “hard” and primed for mosh pits. Produced by Randy LeBoeuf, it reflects the Louisville band’s continued evolution in both structure and intensity. Music video directed by : Errick Easterday – Song featured on the album : Death Comes To All
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26 . Kardashev – Seed Of The Night
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
Blending shoegaze textures with progressive death metal grit, Kardashev’s “Seed of the Night” follows a cosmic surrogate sent to jumpstart life on a remote world. Positioned between solemn mandate and ontological doubt, the track raises questions like “Is my code all I am?” while instructing the being to “show your face to the setting sun.” The video threads live performance with a narrative featuring Pathfinder (Atlas) and The Traveler (Sky-Brother). Music video directed by : Nico Mirolla & Felix Ruldolph – Song featured on the album : Alunea
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25 . Onslaught – Iron Fist
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Date Added : Apr 7,2025
“Iron Fist” sees Onslaught filtering Motörhead’s 1982 original through their own thrash-hardened lens, a nod less nostalgic than guttural. Onslaught’s guitarist Nige Rockett credits Motörhead for nudging the band from punk aggression into metal’s sharper edges—an influence forged during their shared 1987 *Orgasmatron* tour. This version aligns Onslaught’s intensity with the track’s innate brutality, now reissued under Reigning Phoenix Music. The timing coincides with the 40th anniversary of *Power From Hell*, a full-circle moment for the Bristol outfit now fronted by David Garnett, with Rockett, Wayne Dorman, Jeff Williams, and James Perry completing the lineup. Music video directed by : Richard Oakes – Song featured on the album : Origins Of Aggression
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24 . Wucan – Irons In The Fire
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Irons in the Fire” marks Wucan’s return following a three-year silence, reviving their fusion of hard rock riffs, heavy-handed grooves, and Francis Tobolsky’s arresting vocals. Developed around a riff by guitarist Tim George, the track’s genesis helped define their next album’s tone, with recording sessions held in Berlin in 2024 under producer Max Power’s watch. Lyrically, it nods to resilience clichés, reworking “diamonds under pressure” into a call for weary creatives to keep going. The video, set in a defunct glassworks and a Saxon brewery, leans into industrial bleakness, punctuated by object-smashing theatrics and cold cement backdrops matching the song’s grinding edge. Music video directed by : Armin Riedel
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23 . Cabal – Snake Tongues
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
Released via Nuclear Blast Records, “Snake Tongues” sets Cabal’s blunt-force brand of deathcore against industrial textures, forming a dense, acidic wall of sound. The Danish outfit, active since 2015, channels themes of betrayal and manipulation through metaphor-laden lyrics, where deceit is both serpentine and systemic. Echoing the sonic brutality of their albums “Mark of Rot” and “Drag Me Down,” this track bites harder than it warns. Song featured on the album : Everything Rots
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22 . The Funeral Portrait – Holy Water (w/ Ivan Moody)
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Holy Water” pairs The Funeral Portrait with Ivan Moody, casting emo rock in baroque shadows of temptation and moral compromise. Spinning a Faustian fable in metal-tinged tones, the lyrics flirt with blasphemy—“I traded my name to indulge a snake”—while slipping into theatrical defiance. The video wraps Moody in monkish robes, his spectral presence summoned amid a cavernous Arizona canyon and a crumbling Pennsylvanian church. Music video directed by : Michael Lombardi – Song featured on the album : Greetings From Suffocate City
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21 . Mob Rules – Back To Savage Land
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Back To Savage Land” traces a return to a parched homeland first introduced in Mob Rules‘ 1999 debut. The track resurrects their post-apocalyptic saga, revisiting themes of survival amid dwindling resources and looming threats. Musically, it tightropes between speed and melody, blending classic heavy metal influences with NWOBHM flair and hints of progressive textures. This release resumes a conceptual arc the band first outlined over two decades ago. Music video directed by : Rainer Zipp Fränzen – Song featured on the album :
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20 . Wednesday 13 – In Misery
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
In “In Misery,” Wednesday 13 flips the typical love ballad into a snarling meditation on self-inflicted heartbreak. He trades tenderness for theatrical gloom, narrating the irony of clinging to toxic affection with morbid resolve. Fusing goth-punk grit and sleaze metal swagger, the track grinds through a shifting structure that mirrors emotional chaos. As the former Murderdolls frontman, Wednesday 13 draws from a career steeped in horror punk lore. Music video directed by : Vicente Cordero – Song featured on the album : Mid Death Crisis
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19 . Annisokay – Inner Sanctum
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Inner Sanctum” by Annisokay navigates inner turmoil and quiet defiance, threading melodic metalcore with a lyrical nod to buried memories and emotional refuge. Lines like “Precious moments passed by without a sound” suggest a discreet archiving of the past, while “My inner sanctum / Somewhere within the clouds” alludes to a mental no-fly zone, inaccessible and intact. The video pairs cinematic narrative with tight performance shots, sculpting a visual echo of the song’s brooding introspection. Song featured on the album : Abyss Pt. Ii (Ep)
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18 . Nothing More – Freefall (w/ Chris Daughtry)
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Freefall” pairs Nothing More‘s alt-metal tension with Chris Daughtry’s rock grit on a track tracing the blur of grief, doubt, and self-confrontation. Lyrics tumble from existential dread—“I’m in a freefall… is anybody out there?”—to numbed survival, masked by forced smiles and unnamed pain. The video shadows a firefighter unraveling inwardly, finding unspoken solace in an abandoned dog somewhere off a backroad in Clifton, Tennessee. Music video directed by : Stephen Wayne Mallett – Song featured on the album : Carnal
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17 . Kyle Gordon – Crawl To Me (w/ Stool Sample)
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
Kyle Gordon’s “Crawl to Me,” performed with his fictional outfit Stool Sample, sends up nu-metal’s theatrical angst with a straight face and a smirk. The track leans into distorted guitars, overwrought fury, and aggressively absurd lyrics that flirt with provocation for parody’s sake. This satirical pastiche follows Gordon’s viral Eurodance spoof “Planet of the Bass,” extending his character-driven critique of genre excess. Song featured on the album : Kyle Gordon Is Wonderful
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16 . Arch Enemy – A Million Suns
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“A Million Suns” tilts Arch Enemy’s melodic death metal edge toward an atmospheric register, trading sheer force for layered distortion and eerie restraint. Released in March 2025, the track wades through dense textures, its guitars less about assault, more about tension with occasional flashes of menace. Formed in Sweden in 1995, the band morphs its sound with each lineup shift, from Carcass ties to The Agonist echoes. The group’s arc spirals through “Black Earth” to “Rise of the Tyrant,” each version of itself whispering through this track like a ghost in reverb. Music video directed by : Mirko Witzki – Song featured on the album : Blood Dynasty
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15 . The Down Troddence – Ejjathi
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Ejjathi” is the second track from The Down Troddence’s 2025 release under Think Music. Combining thrash metal with Kerala folk rhythms, the song scrutinizes casteism, colorism, and entrenched gender expectations in Indian society. Its lyrics echo personal experiences of caste bias, with lines like “Colour Venam, Height Venam, PhD Padanam Venam” satirizing the matrimonial checklist. The video stages the band in ’80s glam gear invading a marriage bureau, with an animated nod to the caste-centered Parayi Petta Panthirukulam tale. Music video directed by : Chidambaram – Song featured on the album : Ayaktihis (As You All Know, This Is How It Is)
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14 . Allegaeon – The Swarm
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“The Swarm” signals Ezra Haynes’ return to Allegaeon after a decade-long absence since *Elements of the Infinite*. Taken from the upcoming *The Ossuary Lens* via Metal Blade Records, the track leans into the band’s signature collision of technical and melodic death metal. Its opening riff, written aboard a boat in Bristol by guitarist Michael Stancel, channels the chaos of a UK tour mishap involving water-damaged gear and an ill-timed disco event. Music video directed by : K. Hunter Lamar
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13 . Deep Sun – Storyteller
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Date Added : Apr 4,2025
“Storyteller,” the 2025 single by Swiss symphonic metal act Deep Sun, offers a theatrical ride through fantasy tropes and nostalgic quests, all filtered through sweeping orchestral layers. Produced by Frank Pitters and released via Power Blast Records, it pairs epic arrangements with lyrics such as “Come on in and take a seat, it’s time for fairytales.” The track toys with identity and escapism, conjuring dragons, childhood heroes, and self-discovery through mythic flair. Song featured on the album : Storyteller
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12 . The Rasmus – Creatures Of Chaos
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
Released in March 2025 via Better Noise Music and Playground Music, “Creatures of Chaos” finds The Rasmus leaning into the shadows with production by Marti Fredriksen and Desmond Child, and an assist from Joseph McQueen at Sienna Studios in Nashville. The track poses as an anthem for misfits, a riff-heavy salute to those more likely to be found outside the velvet rope than inside the VIP room. Formed in 1994 in Helsinki, The Rasmus reached Billboard 100 with “In the Shadows” in 2003, before guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi exited in 2022 and Emilia “Emppu” Suhonen stepped in. Music video directed by : Aleksei Kulikov
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11 . Rotting Christ – Sorrowful Farewell + Among Two Storms [Live]
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
Blending “Sorrowful Farewell” and “Among Two Storms,” Rotting Christ crafts a live medley that slips between blackened roots and melodic inflections. Drawn from their 1997 album “A Dead Poem,” both tracks trace the band’s pivot into more atmospheric territory. Spearheaded by brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis, joined by Kostas and Kostis, the performance nods to the group’s early grindcore days without sentimental detours. Song featured on the album : 35 Years Of Evil Existence-Live In Lycabettus
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10 . dead7 – Blur
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
dead7’s debut single “Blur” arrives via SharpTone Records, a marker of the band’s latest chapter since signing in late 2024. The St. Louis five-piece—Kozik on vocals, Greer and Quinn on guitars, Salyer on bass, Guinn on drums—filters metalcore through electronic textures with strategically deployed quiet-loud shifts. A synth-led intro gives way to pulverizing guitars, as Kozik parses personal chaos and relational turbulence in an unstable world. Music video directed by : Spencer Peck
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9 . Messa – The Dress
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
“The Dress” is a doom metal single by Messa, released March 2025 via Metal Blade Records. Calling their sound “scarlet doom,” the Italian band leans into a dense sonic murk enriched by ambient textures, jazz inflections, and drone-laced tension. The track features a trumpet solo by Michele Tedesco, cutting through the gloom with unhurried menace. Haunted lyrics conjure a personal crucifix of self-hatred, with the titular dress as both altar and wound. The video, filmed at Hotel Due Mori in Cittadella, reflects the emotional architecture of despair and psychological ruin from which the song emerges. Music video directed by : Marco Zanin – Song featured on the album : The Spin
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8 . Underoath – All The Love Is Gone
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
Fusing metalcore grit with a twitchy undercurrent of drum-and-bass, “All The Love Is Gone” delivers a jittery nod to The Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers. Underoath swaps solace for static, channeling personal unrest into a soundtrack for emotional disarray where affection has clocked out indefinitely. The Tampa outfit—first noticed in 2004 with “They’re Only Chasing Safety”—continues their sonic detour post-hiatus with a calculated kind of chaos. Music video directed by : Caleb Mallery – Song featured on the album : The Place After This One
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7 . Lik – War Praise
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
Released in March 2025 via Metal Blade Records, “War Praise” is Swedish band Lik’s unflinching glance at global unrest. Set against a backdrop of their familiar brutal-meets-melodic death metal blueprint, the track neither soothes nor reconciles—preferring scorched riffs and percussive violence to diplomacy. Vocalist Tomas Åkvik dryly notes the world’s enduring fondness for conflict, making war not just history, but content. Song featured on the album : Necro
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6 . coldrain – Incomplete
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
“Incomplete” marks coldrain’s first release under Century Media Records, arriving March 2025 with a mix of melodic highs and post-hardcore grit. The track circles the disorientation of modern chaos, shaping its turbulence into an oddly hopeful ode to imperfection. It reminds us—with zero subtlety—that chasing flawlessness might cost more than it’s worth, like forgetting to be decent while trying to be divine. Music video directed by : Margt
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5 . Blackbriar – I Buried Us
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
“I Buried Us” marks Blackbriar’s latest foray into symphonic metal, layering distorted guitars with lush orchestral swells and Zora Cock’s remarkably plaintive voice. The lyrics sketch a cinematic post-mortem of a failed relationship, where the couple lies metaphorically interred, still waltzing through memories and regrets in their imagined afterlife. Founded in 2012, the Dutch band merges gothic themes with dramatic arrangements, now under Nuclear Blast. Song featured on the album : A Thousand Little Deaths
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4 . Walk In Darkness – Chasing The Horizon
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
Released in October 2024, “Chasing the Horizon” pairs lyrics and music by guitarist Shaman with the layered, brooding vocals of Nicoletta Rosellini. Italian band Walk In Darkness filters symphonic gothic metal through a cinematic lens, where grandeur and gloom coexist without apology. The track extends the thematic line traced through their earlier works “In the Shadows of Things” and “On the Road to Babylon.” Music video directed by : Shaman & Lorenzo Avanz
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3 . Pop Evil – Side Effects
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
“Side Effects” by Pop Evil, released via MNRK Heavy, pieces together heavy riffs and anthemic choruses to sketch a portrait of toxicity’s lingering aftertaste. Leigh Kakaty muses that “every action causes a reaction, a side effect,” as the track leans into the band’s shift toward a more metal-inflected sound. Formed in 2001 in North Muskegon, Michigan, Pop Evil’s trajectory includes albums like “Onyx” and “Versatile,” with singles such as “Trenches” and “Waking Lions.” Music video directed by : Samuel Shapiro – Song featured on the album : What Remains
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2 . Buckcherry – Roar Like Thunder
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
“Roar Like Thunder” sets the tone for Buckcherry’s eleventh album, produced by Marti Frederiksen at Sienna Studios in Nashville. Trading subtlety for stomp, the track lurches forward with hard rock swagger, punctuated by Josh Todd’s unapologetic vocal grit. The song, as Todd claims, “rocks from beginning to end”—and delivers enough groove and thump to satisfy longtime listeners and nostalgic skeptics alike. Music video directed by : Tom Flynn & Mike Watts – Song featured on the album : Roar Like Thunder
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1 . Malevolence – If It’s All The Same To You
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Date Added : Mar 29,2025
“If It’s All The Same To You” opens with a gravelly spoken word intro from Alan Ford, lending the track a dose of cinematic grit straight from British crime cinema. The video takes the DIY route: 1,175 photos, 15 liters of paint, 7 spray cans, one box of fireworks, two fire extinguishers, and seven days of unapologetically manual labor. Malevolence, rooted in Sheffield since 2010, self-financed their album through MLVLTD Music, their label founded in 2019. Music video directed by : Donprod – Song featured on the album : Where Only The Truth Is Spoken
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(*) According to our own statistics, updated on April 20, 2025