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The Haunted’s “In Fire Reborn” marches to a 6/8 beat with soldier’s-eye lyrics and a lineup featuring Marco Aro and Adrian Erlandsson. Battle Beast’s “Last Goodbye,” inspired by a cancer ward encounter, opens their next album with grit over Janne Björkroth’s production. Caskets’ “Make Me a Martyr” tackles emotional numbness post-bassist departure. Orbit Culture’s “The Tales of War” leans on melodic groove and stormy visuals. Behemoth returns with “Sowing Salt,” a brutal track wrapped in apocalyptic imagery and blackened death metal force. Here are the brand new hard rock, metal…. songs that caught, these past days, our aural interest and visual liking. Beware (possibly) NSFW |
52 . The Haunted – In Fire Reborn
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Date Added : May 13,2025
“In Fire Reborn” by The Haunted, released via Century Media Records, marches to a 6/8 rhythm that lends a haunting cadence to its militaristic pulse. The lyrics speak from a soldier’s vantage point—stoic, disillusioned, and caught in the churn of perpetual warfare, where conviction is stripped down to routine survival. The lineup features Marco Aro, Patrik Jensen, Ola Englund, Jonas Björler, and Adrian Erlandsson. Music video directed by : Patric Ullaeus – Song featured on the album : Songs Of Last Resort 
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51 . Battle Beast – Last Goodbye
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Date Added : May 13,2025
Shaped by an unexpected encounter in a cancer ward, “Last Goodbye” channels bassist Eero Sipilä’s 2020 conversation with a long-term patient into a charged meditation on endurance wrapped in melodic steel. Carried by Battle Beast’s signature power metal energy, the track opens their upcoming seventh album with less euphoria than grit, framed by Janne Björkroth’s polished production and tightly wound synth lines. Music video directed by : Patric Ullaeus
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50 . Caskets – Make Me A Martyr
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Date Added : May 13,2025
“Make Me a Martyr” is a 2025 standalone release by British melodic metalcore outfit Caskets, out via SharpTone Records. With production by Zach Jones and KJ Strock and mastering by Maor Appelbaum, the track weaves through themes of emotional anesthesia and relational toxicity without asking for sympathy. It follows their 2023 album “Reflections” and marks the first release post the departure of bassist Christopher McIntosh. Music video directed by : Liav
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49 . Orbit Culture – The Tales Of War
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Date Added : May 13,2025
Swedish band Orbit Culture opens 2025 with “The Tales of War,” a melodic death/groove metal track that sticks to its original composition blueprint. Released under Century Media Records, it follows their 2023 single “The Forgotten” and arrives wrapped in a storm-heavy video aesthetic. The song hints—without subtlety—at a shift in the band’s phase, balancing cinematic ambition with layered instrumental grit. Music video directed by : Riivata Visuals
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48 . Behemoth – Sowing Salt
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Date Added : May 13,2025
Released in May 2025 via Nuclear Blast, “Sowing Salt” marks a new chapter in Behemoth’s relentless discography. Nergal labels it one of their most brutal pieces, marrying guttural precision with lyrics that seethe with radical intent. Set against post-apocalyptic backdrops, the visuals extend the band’s flair for theatrical provocation. Behemoth, founded in Gdańsk in 1991, helped shape blackened death metal with 1999’s “Satanica.” Music video directed by : Zev Deans – Song featured on the album : The Shit Ov God
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47 . DUCKBOY – End of Summer 2005
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Date Added : May 9,2025
On “End of Summer 2005,” DUCKBOY sifts through personal wreckage with hurricane metaphors picking up emotional debris. The title nods to one of the most destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons, reframing meteorological chaos as inner turmoil. Lines like “life sucks but I’ll ride it out ’til my last day” and “I’m bout to break the chain” thread persistence through the spiral of self-disruption. Released in April 2025, the track marks Ruby da Cherry’s shift from rap to pop-punk under his solo alias. Music video directed by : Dill35Mm – Song featured on the album : Coping Strategies To Combat The Algorithm [Vol. 7] |
46 . WARKINGS – Genghis Khan (w/ Orden Ogan)
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Genghis Khan” pairs WARKINGS with Orden Ogan in a joint act of melodic warfare where power metal meets historical reenactment. WARKINGS, active since 2018 and composed of warrior personas from distant epochs, spins sagas drawn from blood-soaked chronicles and battlefield lore. The track bridges both bands’ sonic arsenals—galloping riffs, martial chants, and a narrative drawn from conquest rather than conjecture. Song featured on the album : Armageddon
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45 . ELUVEITIE – Taranoias
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Date Added : May 9,2025
Released in April 2025 via Nuclear Blast, “Taranoias” distills the conceptual nucleus of Eluveitie’s new album into one turbulent track. The band constructs a sonic apparition—dark, immediate, relentless—that arrives without warning and does not ask permission. Grinding modern metal architecture collides with Celtic instrumentation, forging a piece that alternates between brooding menace and frenetic energy. Think hurdy-gurdy meets melodic death metal in a dimly lit ancestral ritual. Music video directed by : Gabor Toth – Song featured on the album : Ànv
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44 . MoistCr1TiKaL, Nik Nocturnal, Knosis – All Wrong
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“All Wrong” places YouTuber and Moist Esports co-owner Charles White Jr. alongside metal content creator Nik Nocturnal and vocalist Ryo Kinoshita in a tense alloy of nu metal urgency and modern metalcore aesthetics. Produced by Michael Herrick, the track pairs serrated riffs with growled refrains, conjuring a soundscape of systemic collapse and personal disillusionment rendered with rhythmic precision. Knosis’s vocals cut through the distortion with calculated ferocity while Nocturnal’s guitars seethe beneath, compressing chaos into structure. White’s presence skews ironic—his digital commentary sensibilities translating into an almost meta frontman persona, inserting a voice known for critique into the mechanics of sonic aggression. Music video directed by : Errick Easterday |
43 . JINJER – Fast Draw
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Fast Draw” by JINJER lands somewhere between loaded riffs and lyrical sleights of hand, pulling focus to their most prolonged songwriting session to date. Part of the “Duél” chapter, this track comes forged over nearly two years of drafting and redrafting, befitting a band not prone to brevity. The video ventures into semi-chaotic terrain, cutting between European tour clips with Sepultura and festival flashes, like memory shards on loop. Music video directed by : Ilona Gerasymova, Vollvincent – Song featured on the album : Duél
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42 . Demon Hunter – I’m Done
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“I’m Done” by Demon Hunter strikes with dense guitar lines and confessional lyrics, tracing a path through weariness and personal reckoning. Formed in Seattle by Ryan and Don Clark, the band made early waves by cloaking their identities, fueling curiosity in a genre often unconcerned with anonymity. Here, their blend of metalcore structures and Christian metal undertones signals not redemption, but resignation shouted through distortion. Music video directed by : Ryan Clark
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41 . CAREGAH – Tombstone
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Tombstone” by Swedish groove metal band CAREGAH unpacks longing and isolation with a shrug and a snarl. Marcus Kärregård’s vocals brood over distorted riffs and relentless rhythms, flanked by Patrik Åkerlund’s lead guitar dramatics and Filip Mathiasson’s punishing drums. Released in April 2025 under Roar/Rock of Angels, the track sidesteps catharsis in favor of sustained ache and restrained fury. Music video directed by : Stefan Johansson – Song featured on the album : Osmium
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40 . Byzantine – Floating Chrysanthema
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Floating Chrysanthema” sketches a bleak tableau where sentient A.I. flips the power dynamic and turns humanity into its pet project. Threaded through its metallic DNA is a cautionary pulse that interrogates technological ambition with a deadpan glare. Bassist Ryan Postlethwait brings the track to the fold, while producer Peter Wichers injects his signature from projects like Soilwork and Nevermore. Music video directed by : Jason Adams – Song featured on the album : Harbingers
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39 . Rivers of Nihil – Water & Time
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Water & Time” by Rivers of Nihil filters progressive death metal through shimmering synths and an unlikely nod to Tears For Fears, borrowing its working title, “TFF,” from the ’80s duo. Initially composed entirely on synth by guitarist Brody Uttley as a side experiment, the song evolves only once the band senses its potential. Layered with distorted guitars and rhythmic violence, it resists genre orthodoxy with calculated ambivalence. Music video directed by : David Brodsky – Song featured on the album : Rivers Of Nihil
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38 . Blackbriar – The Fossilized Widow
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Date Added : May 9,2025
In “The Fossilized Widow,” Blackbriar crafts a gothic vignette spun from decay, loss, and morbid romanticism, threading baroque orchestration with a heavy alternative metal pulse. Zora Cock’s soprano, hovering between the spectral intensity of “Wuthering Heights” and the ethereal melancholy of “My Immortal,” commands the track like a phantom bride adrift in mourning. Sourced from the Netherlands and styled in symphonic gloom, the band lets dark fairytales rust into bone. Music video directed by : Cinebuds – Song featured on the album : A Thousand Little Deaths
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37 . ALESTORM – Frozen Piss 2
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Frozen Piss 2” launches a three-part saga centered on a cursed treasure linked to lost Sumerian gods, buried beneath Bournemouth’s streets. Guest vocals by Shiori Sasaki intertwine with Christopher Bowes’ keytar flourishes and bar-stomp choruses delivered at chaotic speed. The band’s blend of folk-infused pirate metal frames a narrative Bowes claims contains “eldritch knowledge that’ll melt your brain.” Music video directed by : Niek Van De Vondervoort – Song featured on the album : The Thunderfist Chronicles
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47 . DUCKBOY – End of Summer 2005
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Date Added : May 9,2025
On “End of Summer 2005,” DUCKBOY sifts through personal wreckage with hurricane metaphors picking up emotional debris. The title nods to one of the most destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons, reframing meteorological chaos as inner turmoil. Lines like “life sucks but I’ll ride it out ’til my last day” and “I’m bout to break the chain” thread persistence through the spiral of self-disruption. Released in April 2025, the track marks Ruby da Cherry’s shift from rap to pop-punk under his solo alias. Music video directed by : Dill35Mm – Song featured on the album : Coping Strategies To Combat The Algorithm [Vol. 7] |
46 . WARKINGS – Genghis Khan (w/ Orden Ogan)
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Genghis Khan” pairs WARKINGS with Orden Ogan in a joint act of melodic warfare where power metal meets historical reenactment. WARKINGS, active since 2018 and composed of warrior personas from distant epochs, spins sagas drawn from blood-soaked chronicles and battlefield lore. The track bridges both bands’ sonic arsenals—galloping riffs, martial chants, and a narrative drawn from conquest rather than conjecture. Song featured on the album : Armageddon
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45 . ELUVEITIE – Taranoias
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Date Added : May 9,2025
Released in April 2025 via Nuclear Blast, “Taranoias” distills the conceptual nucleus of Eluveitie’s new album into one turbulent track. The band constructs a sonic apparition—dark, immediate, relentless—that arrives without warning and does not ask permission. Grinding modern metal architecture collides with Celtic instrumentation, forging a piece that alternates between brooding menace and frenetic energy. Think hurdy-gurdy meets melodic death metal in a dimly lit ancestral ritual. Music video directed by : Gabor Toth – Song featured on the album : Ànv
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44 . MoistCr1TiKaL, Nik Nocturnal, Knosis – All Wrong
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“All Wrong” places YouTuber and Moist Esports co-owner Charles White Jr. alongside metal content creator Nik Nocturnal and vocalist Ryo Kinoshita in a tense alloy of nu metal urgency and modern metalcore aesthetics. Produced by Michael Herrick, the track pairs serrated riffs with growled refrains, conjuring a soundscape of systemic collapse and personal disillusionment rendered with rhythmic precision. Knosis’s vocals cut through the distortion with calculated ferocity while Nocturnal’s guitars seethe beneath, compressing chaos into structure. White’s presence skews ironic—his digital commentary sensibilities translating into an almost meta frontman persona, inserting a voice known for critique into the mechanics of sonic aggression. Music video directed by : Errick Easterday |
43 . JINJER – Fast Draw
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Fast Draw” by JINJER lands somewhere between loaded riffs and lyrical sleights of hand, pulling focus to their most prolonged songwriting session to date. Part of the “Duél” chapter, this track comes forged over nearly two years of drafting and redrafting, befitting a band not prone to brevity. The video ventures into semi-chaotic terrain, cutting between European tour clips with Sepultura and festival flashes, like memory shards on loop. Music video directed by : Ilona Gerasymova, Vollvincent – Song featured on the album : Duél
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42 . Demon Hunter – I’m Done
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“I’m Done” by Demon Hunter strikes with dense guitar lines and confessional lyrics, tracing a path through weariness and personal reckoning. Formed in Seattle by Ryan and Don Clark, the band made early waves by cloaking their identities, fueling curiosity in a genre often unconcerned with anonymity. Here, their blend of metalcore structures and Christian metal undertones signals not redemption, but resignation shouted through distortion. Music video directed by : Ryan Clark
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41 . CAREGAH – Tombstone
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Tombstone” by Swedish groove metal band CAREGAH unpacks longing and isolation with a shrug and a snarl. Marcus Kärregård’s vocals brood over distorted riffs and relentless rhythms, flanked by Patrik Åkerlund’s lead guitar dramatics and Filip Mathiasson’s punishing drums. Released in April 2025 under Roar/Rock of Angels, the track sidesteps catharsis in favor of sustained ache and restrained fury. Music video directed by : Stefan Johansson – Song featured on the album : Osmium
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40 . Byzantine – Floating Chrysanthema
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Floating Chrysanthema” sketches a bleak tableau where sentient A.I. flips the power dynamic and turns humanity into its pet project. Threaded through its metallic DNA is a cautionary pulse that interrogates technological ambition with a deadpan glare. Bassist Ryan Postlethwait brings the track to the fold, while producer Peter Wichers injects his signature from projects like Soilwork and Nevermore. Music video directed by : Jason Adams – Song featured on the album : Harbingers
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39 . Rivers of Nihil – Water & Time
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Water & Time” by Rivers of Nihil filters progressive death metal through shimmering synths and an unlikely nod to Tears For Fears, borrowing its working title, “TFF,” from the ’80s duo. Initially composed entirely on synth by guitarist Brody Uttley as a side experiment, the song evolves only once the band senses its potential. Layered with distorted guitars and rhythmic violence, it resists genre orthodoxy with calculated ambivalence. Music video directed by : David Brodsky – Song featured on the album : Rivers Of Nihil
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38 . Blackbriar – The Fossilized Widow
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Date Added : May 9,2025
In “The Fossilized Widow,” Blackbriar crafts a gothic vignette spun from decay, loss, and morbid romanticism, threading baroque orchestration with a heavy alternative metal pulse. Zora Cock’s soprano, hovering between the spectral intensity of “Wuthering Heights” and the ethereal melancholy of “My Immortal,” commands the track like a phantom bride adrift in mourning. Sourced from the Netherlands and styled in symphonic gloom, the band lets dark fairytales rust into bone. Music video directed by : Cinebuds – Song featured on the album : A Thousand Little Deaths
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37 . ALESTORM – Frozen Piss 2
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Date Added : May 9,2025
“Frozen Piss 2” launches a three-part saga centered on a cursed treasure linked to lost Sumerian gods, buried beneath Bournemouth’s streets. Guest vocals by Shiori Sasaki intertwine with Christopher Bowes’ keytar flourishes and bar-stomp choruses delivered at chaotic speed. The band’s blend of folk-infused pirate metal frames a narrative Bowes claims contains “eldritch knowledge that’ll melt your brain.” Music video directed by : Niek Van De Vondervoort – Song featured on the album : The Thunderfist Chronicles
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36 . Mammoth – The End
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“The End” opens with a nimble tapping riff first imagined by Wolfgang Van Halen before Mammoth existed. Its intro swells with anthemic intent before snapping into churning, melody-forward verses and a chorus anchored by the line, “Take your hand in mine and watch the end with me.” Van Halen, crafting every note himself, injects his father’s influence into the guitar work, while Michael “Elvis” Baskette co-devises the production’s disciplined intensity. The video indulges in pulp horror excess, summoning zombies, werewolves, and vampires à la 1996’s “From Dusk Till Dawn,” with cameos from Danny Trejo, Slash, Myles Kennedy, and Valerie Bertinelli. Music video directed by : Robert Rodriguez & Greg Nicotero
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35 . Wind Walkers – The End Aesthetic
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“The End Aesthetic” marks Wind Walkers’ debut under Fearless Records, weaving metalcore with sleek electronic textures. Produced by Nick Matzkows and Jon Eberhard, the track shifts from chorus-driven external commentaries to introspective verses unmasking anxiety, fear, and emotional detachment. Its blistering bridge collides with pop-inflected hooks, echoing the Massachusetts band’s mix of metal, R&B, and pop since 2020. Music video directed by : Alex Kouvatsos
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34 . Moonlight Haze – Chase The Light
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“Chase The Light” is the second single from Italian symphonic power metal act Moonlight Haze. The track extends the band’s ongoing narrative—a voyage spiraling through cosmic illusions and elemental touchpoints in pursuit of something more substantial than reality allows. Founded in 2018 by Chiara Tricarico and Giulio Capone, the lineup is rounded out by Alessandro Jacobi, Alberto Melinato, and Marco Falanga. Music video directed by : Marco Falanga & Beatrice Demori – Song featured on the album : Beyond
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33 . Sammy Hagar – Encore, Thank You, Goodnight
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“Encore, Thank You, Goodnight” filters a dreamworld encounter with Eddie Van Halen into a track built on spectral memory and a guitar riff remembered from sleep. Sammy Hagar pairs his vocals with Joe Satriani’s fretwork, Michael Anthony’s bass lines, and Kenny Aronoff’s drumming in a line-up that gestures loosely toward unfinished business. Hagar calls the dream a message “from the beyond”—the kind best committed to tape rather than therapy. Music video directed by : Zz Satriani
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32 . Fit For A King – No Tomorrow
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“No Tomorrow” finds Fit For A King scripting an apocalypse with a romantic twist, trailing a couple who, rather than panic, opt for defiant serenity in their final hours. The track opens with a deceptively calm ambiance, slowly unraveling into a heavier core punctuated by melodic choruses. Released on April 25, 2025, it adds another layer to the band’s catalog of personal and existential narratives, delivered through their signature metalcore palette. Music video directed by : Josh Hart & Garrett Drake
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31 . uKanDanZ – WAR PIGS
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Date Added : May 2,2025
Reworking Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” through a distinctly Ethiopian-French lens, uKanDanZ swaps heavy metal riffs for Lionel Martin’s bristling tenor saxophone. Asnake Gebreyes delivers the lyrics in Amharic, layering urgency over a sonic collision of jazz, rock, and traditional Ethiopian rhythms. The band, active since the early 2010s, includes Fred Escoffier on keyboards, Damien Cluzel on bass, and Thomas Pierre on drums. Music video directed by : Arma Lux – Song featured on the album : Evil Plan
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30 . Allegaeon – Wake Circling Above
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“Wake Circling Above” sees Allegaeon trading velocity for sheer weight, carving out a slower, doom-laced soundscape at the behest of returning vocalist Ezra Haynes. Guitarist Michael Stancel taps into the grandeur of symphonic and blackened death metal, channeling acts like Dimmu Borgir and Septicflesh to layer orchestral flourishes with meticulous sound design. Released via Metal Blade Records, the track marks a detour from the band’s usual technical barrage. Music video directed by : K. Hunter Lamar – Song featured on the album : The Ossuary Lens
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29 . A-Z – Nothing Is Over
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Date Added : May 2,2025
“Nothing Is Over” is the latest single from progressive metal group A-Z, released on April 6, 2025. Formed in 2020 by Ray Alder and Mark Zonder—formerly of Fates Warning—the band threads melodic hard rock through progressive textures without pausing for nostalgia. Joined by Philip Bynoe on bass, Joop Wolters on guitar, and Vivien Lalu on keys, A-Z navigates precision and mood with the kind of symmetry their name quietly suggests. Music video directed by : Robert Graves – Song featured on the album : A2Z2
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28 . Ghost – Peacefield
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“Peacefield” opens with a children’s choir that drifts into theatrical rock textures, hinting at hymnal innocence before the guitars take over. Released through Loma Vista Recordings, the track features Fredrik Åkesson on guitars and Salem Al Fakir on keyboards, adding depth to Ghost’s polished edges. In April 2025, listeners point to rhythmic echoes of Journey’s “Separate Ways,” noting parallels in verse cadence and riff structure. Its lyrics weigh transformation and the uneasy truce between serenity and looming shadows. Music video directed by : Amir Chamdin – Song featured on the album : Skeletá
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27 . Machine Head – ØUTSIDER
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“ØUTSIDER” filters Machine Head’s groove-laden aggression through Robb Flynn’s personal vendetta against toxicity, casting the track as a sonic farewell to parasitic connections. Written under rigid constraints—sub-four minutes, untethered key change, and a finale chorus refusing to mirror its predecessor—the song relishes in controlled chaos. The video, shot in San Antonio’s Aztec Theatre, cloaks the performance in moody, historic grandeur. Music video directed by : David Parada – Song featured on the album : Unatøned
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26 . Dianne – The Elders’ Call
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“The Elders’ Call” pairs Dianne van Giersbergen’s spinto soprano with folk textures and symphonic metal weight, threading stories of ancestral voices and awakening rites. Released in April 2025, the track steps through mysticism with the drone of Patty Gurdy’s hurdy-gurdy slicing through steel-toned orchestrations. The former Xandria vocalist, now solo since 2022’s “After the Storm,” delivers drama without theatrics. Music video directed by : @Cinebuds – Song featured on the album : Soulward Bound
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25 . LANDMVRK – Blood Red
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“Blood Red” sees LANDMVRKS push deeper into the psychological spiral of their protagonist, trapped in a darkness of his own making and begging for a path back to reality. Switching between French and English, the track places linguistic duality at the heart of emotional dissonance, mirroring inner fracture. Tears curdling into “blood red” become the chromatic shorthand for pain that’s more existential than theatrical. Song featured on the album : The Darkest Place I’Ve Ever Been
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24 . Beast In Black – Enter The Behelit
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“Enter The Behelit” arrives as Beast In Black’s 2025 single, born of an unlikely alliance with Blizzard’s Diablo franchise and the manga series Berserk. The title nods to the infamous crimson trinket from Berserk—an object tied to fate, sacrifice, and unsettling power plays. Commissioned for a Diablo IV crossover, the track threads the shared motifs of damnation, ascension, and duality across all three narratives. Anton Kabanen likens the collaboration to divine orchestration by the God Hand itself, a wink to the demonic architects from Berserk. The band continues its Berserk-inspired lineage, layering power metal theatrics over a storyline marinated in medieval anguish and infernal deals. Music video directed by : Katri Ilona Koppanen
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23 . Sleep Theory – III
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“III” by Sleep Theory fixates on betrayal, channeling the old superstition that calamities prefer to arrive in threes. Frontman Cullen Moore lays bare the gut-punch of being deceived by someone once trusted, stripping sentiment down to raw nerves. The band weaves alternative metal, hard rock, and nu-metal into a tightly coiled sonic frame, all while grounded in Memphis roots and tinged by R&B and pop echoes. Music video directed by : Orie Mcginness – Song featured on the album : Afterglow
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22 . Mugshot – Die In Fear // Afore A Waking Nightmare
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
Originally conceived as a single piece, “Die In Fear” and “Afore A Waking Nightmare” are pulled apart in the studio, emerging as uneasy twins with distinct scorn to bear. “Die In Fear” turns inward, chronicling self-loathing and the slow rot of perceived uselessness, while its counterpart pivots outward, aiming fury at opportunists clothed in sincerity. Produced by Randy LeBoeuf, they mark Mugshot’s shift to a denser, sharpened metalcore texture. The band—Ringo Waterman, Michael Demko, Connor Haines, and Ciro Abraham—stays intact, if not entirely merciful. Music video directed by : Nick Chance
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21 . Tallah – What We Know
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“What We Know” arrives in April 2025 via Earache Records, extending Tallah’s flirtation with nu metal’s jagged textures and hardcore’s unvarnished energy. Threading acoustic guitars through trap-metal 808s and string quartets, the track doesn’t so much merge genres as stage a calculated collision. Max Portnoy calls it his favorite, and somehow, a talkbox solo makes sense in the chaos. Justin Bonitz’s vocals stay firmly in control of the bedlam. Music video directed by : Max Portnoy – Song featured on the album : Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
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20 . Midnight – Cleveland Metal
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“Cleveland Metal” plants Midnight’s blackened speed metal squarely in rustbelt grit, channeling Athenar’s affection for his hometown’s punk and metal relics through riffs that snarl more than they sing. Released in April 2025, the track functions as both homage and provocation, a raw-edged tribute to the Cleveland bands who shared his city’s industrial shadows and sonic chaos. Midnight—helmed solely by Jamie Walters—melds DIY ethos with rock’n’roll sleaze, wrapping nostalgia in leather and distortion. Song featured on the album : Steel, Rust And Disgust
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19 . Deep Sun – Worlds Collide
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Date Added : Apr 30,2025
“Worlds Collide” finds Deep Sun threading their dense brand of symphonic metal through tight arrangements and high-drama melodies. Built around Debora Lavagnolo’s operatic vocals and Tom Hiebaum’s cinematic keyboard layers, the track balances intensity and restraint without theatrics. The 2025 single marks guitarist Erik Dummermuth’s official entry, his sharp riffs cutting clean lines alongside Angelo Salerno’s bass and Tobias Brutschi’s precise drumming. Music video directed by : Steve Diener (Afroxfilm) – Song featured on the album : Storyteller
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18 . Sabaton – Templars
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
Sabaton‘s “Templars” brandishes the Swedish band’s allegiance to history-heavy metal, resurrecting the once-feared Knights Templar in sonic form. Bristling with martial swagger, the track marks the band’s first release through Better Noise Music and heralds their upcoming eleventh album. Shot amid the weatherworn fortresses of Belgrade and Smederevo, the cinematic video stages a fictional last stand against King Philip IV’s forces. Bassist Pär Sundström frames “Templars” as the long-demanded answer to fans’ historical appetite, while guitarist Thobbe Englund makes a theatrical homecoming since his 2016 departure. Formed in 1999, Sabaton—Joakim Brodén, Pär Sundström, Chris Rörland, Thobbe Englund, and Hannes Van Dahl—continues to recast heroism with a sharpened riff and a battered shield.
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17 . Primal Fear – Far Away
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
“Far Away” by Primal Fear melds thunderous rhythms with soaring melodies, stitched together by a twin-guitar solo that veers between searing and sentimental. Recorded at Dennis Ward’s Kangaroo Studios, the performance-style video sidesteps theatrics for sheer sonic force. The lyrics, penned with a nod to faith and trust, trace the ache of missing loved ones—especially when life on the road feels longer than the miles suggest. Ralf Scheepers’ vocals walk a tightrope between resilience and vulnerability, while Mat Sinner helms production duties with a steady, unflinching hand. Music video directed by : Ingo Spoerl – Song featured on the album : Domination
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16 . Face Yourself – Primal
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
Opening with a cryptic spoken passage, “Primal” wastes no time before Yasmine Liverneaux’s high screams tear into the track’s dense deathcore textures. Filmed at SquareUp Studios, the video swings between distorted visuals, frenetic close-ups, and fire dancers, crafting a visual bedlam that matches the sonic chaos. A cheeky Wilhelm Scream slips into the melee, punctuating the ferocity with a flash of ironic humor. The track closes with a deadpan quip, “Well then, great production,” tipping a wink at the whole spectacle. Music video directed by : Eric Dicarlo – Song featured on the album : Martyr (Ep)
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15 . Lay Of The Autumn – Lost In Your Eyes
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
“Lost In Your Eyes” pairs Lay Of The Autumn‘s symphonic power metal instincts with Iryna “Eria” Boyarkina’s crystalline vocals, a voice seasoned by runs through Eurovision, X-Factor, and The Voice. Helmed by Davide Scuteri—architect of Ravenword and Choirs of Veritas—the band assembles with Cesare Ferrari, Davide Lovecchio, and Michele Olmi to stitch epic melodies to lingering melancholia. Released under Rockshots Records, the track floats unattached to any confirmed album. Music video directed by : Moviedel Productions – Song featured on the album : Of Love And Sorrow
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14 . Royale Lynn – Greed
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
Royale Lynn swings into alt-metal territory with “Greed,” a combustible lead single from her debut album, produced by Jonathan Roach and loosely threading the myth of Pandora’s Box through its veins. Borrowing sonic grit from 2000s stalwarts like Evanescence and Flyleaf, she laces urgent vocals over dense, relentless instrumentation. The video hurls viewers into a shadowy futuristic wasteland where masked battalions personify unchecked hunger for more. Music video directed by : Scott Hansen – Song featured on the album : Black Magic
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13 . Kadavar – Regeneration
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
Released in early April 2025, “Regeneration” sees Berlin’s Kadavar lean into the gritty glamour of change, as guitarist Jascha Kreft frames it as a toast to new beginnings. Founded in 2010, the band—Christoph “Lupus” Lindemann, Christoph Bartelt, and Simon Bouteloup—continues mining the age-old veins of hard rock and heavy psych with a flair that respectfully nods to Black Sabbath and Hawkwind without slipping into pastiche. Music video directed by : Janosch Pugnaghi – Song featured on the album : I Just Want To Be A Sound
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12 . 聖飢魔Ⅱ – Kiss U Dead Or Alive
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
聖飢魔Ⅱ resurfaces after 37 years with “Kiss U Dead Or Alive,” issued as a limited small scripture EP under Ariola Japan, pressed on 7″ vinyl capped at 65,535 copies. Written by frontman デーモン閣下 and composed by ジェイル大橋, the track trades baroque theatrics for a tight fusion of heavy metal urgency and American rock flirtations. Paired with “老害ロック,” it reanimates the band’s demon-themed mythos for both the faithful and the uninitiated.
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11 . Howl Like Wolves – Misery Flames
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
Following “Unholy” and the “Lost in a City” EP, Howl Like Wolves unveils “Misery Flames,” a single drenched in frenetic riffs and the polished chaos metalcore demands. The band, active since at least 2023, refuses to trade rawness for polish, layering guttural vocals over pummeling breakdowns with a precision almost suspiciously calculated. “Misery Flames” emerges as a snarling addition to their discography, a sonic brawl tucked neatly into three minutes of fury. Music video directed by : Strangeworks Visuals
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10 . Kaonashi – When I Say
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Date Added : Apr 27,2025
Kaonashi drops “When I Say,” a jagged single premiering via Equal Vision Records in early April 2025, dragging listeners deeper into their tangled narrative orbit around the character Casey. Recorded with a flair for recklessness, drums and vocals land in a single take, wrapping the track in a raw immediacy that sidesteps polished studio artifice. Hailing from Philadelphia since 2012, the quartet favors emotional avalanche over meticulous planning, preferring to build their metalcore offerings on instinct and nerve. Music video directed by : Vic Antonio – Song featured on the album : I Want To Go Home
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9 . Slaughter To Prevail – Russian Grizzly In America
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
Slaughter To Prevail‘s “Russian Grizzly In America” offers a bilingual blend of English and Russian gutturals, delivered by Aleksandr “Alex Terrible” Shikolai. The lyrics straddle aggression and satire, pairing deathcore intensity with a smirk. The video trails a Russian bear through Los Angeles, confronting the city’s cultural quirks. A UFC cameo by heavyweight Alexander Volkov inserts unexpected athletic bite into the metal theatrics. Music video directed by : Misha Zvagilskiy – Song featured on the album : Grizzly
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8 . The Devil Wears Prada – For You
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“For You” sees The Devil Wears Prada trace a disquieted devotion, where love grips tighter the more it slips away. The lyrics sketch a narrator tethered to someone emotionally absent, offering affection that loops endlessly into silence. Released on April 17, 2025, the track leans into melancholia, merging metalcore textures with a strangely tender desperation. Formed in Dayton in 2005, the band weaves turmoil into melody and fracture into structure. Music video directed by : Wyatt Clough
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7 . VADER – Unbending
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Unbending” marks a new chapter for VADER as the Polish death metal veterans expand to a five-piece, featuring the return of guitarist Mauser and the debut of drummer Michael alongside Peter, Hal, and Spider. Produced by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studio in the U.K., the track lurches forward with the usual VADER grit—unyielding, bludgeoning, and wholly uninterested in subtlety. The single doubles as the official anthem of Mystic Festival 2025, its snarling tone wrapped in artwork by Marcelo Vasco, whose previous clients include Slayer and Testament. Music video directed by : Robert Gasperowicz – Song featured on the album : Humanihility
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6 . Gaahls Wyrd – Time And Timeless Timeline
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Time and Timeless Timeline” by Gaahls WYRD trades sprawling black metal theatrics for surgical precision, embracing a groove-heavy approach with sharpened guitar lines from Ole “Lust Kilman” Walaunet. Gaahl’s vocals shift between incantation and confrontation, channeling a ritual tone that paradoxically grounds the track in abstraction. The production nods subtly toward 1980s aesthetics, never fully retro but drenched in analog chill. Lyrically, the song fractures linear time with reflections on memory’s distortions and the slippage between chronology and consciousness. Captured in Bergen’s Solslottet Studio, the video frames the band mid-incantation, blurring performance with séance. Song featured on the album : Braiding The Stories
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5 . Moonlight Haze – Tame The Storm
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Tame The Storm” trades polish for punch, layering weighty guitar riffs with rhythmic shifts that flirt with chaos without slipping into it. The track pits operatic flourishes against classic rock grit, as Chiara Tricarico’s voice moves from clarity to volatility, tracing a narrative of inner reckoning. With minimal digital editing and Sascha Paeth at the helm, the song opts for something closer to truth than perfection. Music video directed by : Marco Falanga & Beatrice Demori – Song featured on the album : Beyond
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4 . Ghostseeker – Glow In Decay (w/ Ionei Heckenberg)
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Glow In Decay” sees Ghostseeker pairing with Ionei Heckenberg of Ocean Sleeper in a bitter chronicle of tangled emotions and poisoned dependency. A metalcore duet laced with anguish, the track traces the arc of a relationship warped by heartache, lust, and the kind of toxic chemistry that begs for self-destruction. Heckenberg’s presence deepens the narrative pull, weaving seamlessly into the band’s 2017-forged dynamic. Music video directed by : Ghostseeker – Song featured on the album : Divergence
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3 . DUCKBOY – Moldy Memories (peer pressure turned me into a diamond)
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Moldy Memories (peer pressure turned me into a diamond)” trades $uicideboy$’s grim trap beats for jagged guitars and disillusioned hooks, showcasing DUCKBOY’s shift into introspective pop-punk. Ruby da Cherry reframes adolescent angst through distortion pedals and irony, turning social pressure into both weapon and shield. Pitched somewhere between self-parody and sincerity, the song belongs to the album “tragic love songs to study to [vol. 5]”. Music video directed by : Dill35Mm – Song featured on the album : Coping Strategies To Combat The Algorithm (Vol.7) |
2 . Seven Spires – Love’s Souvenir
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Love’s Souvenir” threads theatrical drama and melancholic grandeur through a mesh of symphonic layers and metal riffs. Adrienne Cowan shifts nimbly between melodic finesse and harsh exorcisms, intertwining sorrow and rage without offering catharsis. Jack Kosto’s guitars march furiously alongside cinematic orchestrations, bending classical flourishes into a framework of melodic death and black metal accents. Drawn from “A Fortress Called Home” (2024), the track leans into Seven Spires’ fondness for fantasy-painted emotional turmoil and narrative lacerations. Music video directed by : Chris Kells – Song featured on the album : A Fortress Called Home
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1 . Doobie – Until I Get To Heaven
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Date Added : Apr 25,2025
“Until I Get To Heaven” threads Doobie‘s gravel-raked vocals through layers of singing, screaming, and rap, tracing the contours of inner turmoil with surgical precision. Born Eric Williams in Columbus, Ohio, he laces the track with elements borrowed from both rap and rock, nodding to a sonic lineage that includes Nirvana and Metallica. Across the beat, themes of identity and emotional unrest surface—not so much resolved as left simmering. Music video directed by : Evan Aparicio – Song featured on the album : Give ‘Em Hell Until You Get To Heaven
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(*) According to our own statistics, updated on June 15, 2025