Glad Friday! We’re again this week with one other hefty round-up for the week’s largest, greatest and most enjoyable new singles, together with new tunes from the likes of Machine Head, Disturbed and Black Label Society. It is not all veteran names, nevertheless. Be it Hollywood actress Vera Farmiga dipping her toes into post-punk goth with The Yagas, Danish noisy bastards Eyes returning with the grindcore-like Higher or Harper releasing her newest metalcore-flavoured single, we have you coated throughout quite a lot of kinds and subgenres.
However first, the outcomes of final week’s vote! Ozzy Osbourne would possibly’ve popped up in a visitor characteristic for Billy Morrison in final week’s round-up, however even the Prince Of Darkness could not lay declare to one of many prime 3 spots in our fan vote. Held off third place by monstermen Lordi, the Finns have been themselves stored at bay by goth metallers Lacuna Coil. Prime spot although went to rising Norwegian star STORM, whose Strolling Lifeless confirmed Harper is not the one metallic wunderkind on the scene proper now.
As talked about up prime, we have a various choice of bands so that you can discover this week, so remember to vote to your favorite tune beneath – the highest three will make it into our huge playlist for the most effective metallic songs of 2025. In any other case, take care and have an ideal weekend!
Machine Head – Unbound
After teasing that their eleventh studio album could be with us “in April” again in November after they launched the all-star team-up These Scars Will not Outline Us, this week Machine Head formally introduced Unatoned for an April 25 launch. New single Unbound drops like a sledgehammer-turned-guillotine, all hefty riffs and big, swinging beats that, with Robb’s sometimes anthemic snarls, make us very excited to see the band stay once more this yr.
Harper – Thorn In My Facet
It has been three years since Harper first burst onto the scene, however the metallic wunderkind is selecting up some critical steam on newest single Thorn In My Facet. Explosive metalcore within the vein of Spiritbox, Harper would possibly put on her influences on her sleeves however does so with a stage of ardour and zeal that makes it undeniably thrilling. Contemplating she made Obtain historical past final yr because the youngest performer to grace its stage, we won’t wait to see what occurs subsequent.
Disturbed – I Will Not Break
Given they kicked off 2025 celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of The Illness, maybe it is not too stunning that Disturbed are going old skool on newest single I Will Not Break. From the pulsing thumps that lead into the observe to Draiman’s inimitable “Ah-Ah” vocalisations, the observe definitely appears like one thing that might’ve come from their debut, however delivered with a confidence and sleekness that’s in line with simply how far the band have come within the quarter-century since its launch.
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Home Of Safety – Afterlife
With their debut EP Galore final summer season, Home Of Safety made some critical waves with their genre-straddling model of alt. metallic/nu/hip-hop mash-up. New single Afterlife reveals they’re solely simply getting began. Taken from their upcoming EP Outrun You All, due Could 23, it is a tar-paced thumper that has surprisingly melodic vocals drifting atop a sea of fuzzy, electronica-enhanced low-end. Whether or not you catch them with Poppy after they tour the US in April, or in any other case see them this summer season at Obtain Competition, be sure you do not miss this lot.
Wednesday 13 – When The Satan Instructions
The Duke Of Spook has come a great distance from his graverobbing-in-drag lyrical roots. 20 years on from his solo debut, the punk energies that outlined early albums Transylvania 90210 and Fang Bang have been changed with a darker heft that’s entrance and centre on Wednesday’s newest single, When The Satan Instructions. It is a darkish and stormy stomper with a sometimes titillating video, an ideal reminder that Wednesday 13 stays a grasp of horrorcore.
Alien Weaponry – 1000 Mates
With just a little over a month to go till Alien Weaponry’s third album Te Rā arrives on March 28, Alien Weaponry have supplied one other glimpse of issues to return in new single 1000 Mates. Given the one’s concentrate on extra up to date points – taking goal at social media specifically – it is hardly stunning that the band have stripped away their extra people instrumentations to go proper for the neck with some clattering groove metallic riffs.
The Yagas – She’s Strolling Down
It is one thing of an open secret that The Conjuring’s Vera Farmiga loves heavy music. Together with her band The Yagas, she’s placing that love within the highlight nevertheless, her band’s newest single combining highly effective, pumping vocals with ethereal, nearly post-punk melodies that recall to mind the likes of Unto Others, Grave Pleasures with a extra fiery twist.
Black Label Society – Lord Humungus
Look, Zakk Wylde is simply a set of leather-based physique armour away from trying like he’d match into the Mad Max universe anyway, so is it any shock that Black Label Society’s newest single is an ode to the hockey masked villain from The Highway Warrior? It is a match made in heaven, BLS’ trademark motor-rumble riffs including to a gritty air of cool across the observe, getting us much more pumped up for no matter BLS is perhaps cooking up in 2025.
Urne – Throes Of Grief (ft. Tim Öhrström)
Out on the street this week with Norwegian black’n’rollers Kvelertak, Urne stunned us with a double-drop of singles. However whereas their cowl of Dio-fronted Sabbath tune I is great (and you need to undoubtedly test that out), it is unique tune Throes Of Grief that offers us our first trace of the place the band are headed stylistically now they’re signed to Spinefarm. Traditional heavy metallic structure with a recent heft and even shades of maximum metallic, Throes… is precisely the sort of tune you’d count on for a band who produced among the finest metallic debuts lately.
Rootbrain – Unawares
A collision between thrashy riffs and soulful, Alice In Chains-like vocal melodies, Rootbrain’s newest single Unawares strikes a cautious stability between basic faculties of metallic. However though Unawares evokes the anything-can-happen mindset that embodied the ultimate years of glam (earlier than Grunge formally modified the aesthetic of widespread heavy music), there is a up to date power and pressure to the German/Finnish group’s sound that brings it firmly into the twenty first Century.
RØRY – Wolves
There’s just a little over per week to go earlier than rising alt. metallic star RØRY embarks on a packed-out tour of the UK, making the right time to drop an emotive new single. Wolves is a beautiful up to date ballad within the vein of Linkin Park or Convey Me The Horizon, coping with a way of loss and grief with cathartic breakouts and hovering vocal melodies.
Eyes – Higher
In 2023, Denmark’s EYES got here out with the wildly swinging, swivel-throated mashup of noise rock and hardcore that was Congratulations. Freshly signed to Prosthetic Information, it is secure to say they’ve solely grown uglier and extra frenzied. A one-minute blast of grindcore-like fury, the observe flies by in a cacophony of howls and clattering drums. Taken from new album Spinner – out April 25 – it is a first style of some actually fantastic nastiness. Drink deep.
