It is Friday, it is scorching and we have one other large round-up of recent music for you – welcome again to Steel Hammer’s Tracks Of The Week!
Kicking us off this week are the outcomes of final week’s vote. Brazilian thrashers Nervosa took a wholesome third place within the ballot with the livid Smashing Heads, however had been finally surpassed by euro metallic sensations Past The Black. Far and away our winner for the week although was the team-up between The Yagas and Gogol Bordello, Chervona Ruta serving to to lift funds for Ukrainian medics by way of the UNITED24 platform.
Onto this week’s choice! We have some heavy hitters again within the working with Papa Roach, Lorna Shore, Halestorm and Hollywood Undead all providing up new music, in addition to extra underground picks with Sinsaenum, Manegarm and Witch Membership Devil protecting varied facets of the acute metallic spectrum. As ever, we’d like you to inform us which tune excites you most, so remember to forged your vote within the ballot under – and have an incredible weekend!
Papa Roach – Braindead (ft. Toby Morse)
In just some weeks, Papa Roach will be a part of Korn as freshly annointed pageant headliners after they prime the invoice at Wacken 2025. Very similar to their nu metallic friends, the query is not how they acquired right here however why it is taken so lengthy, the band having quite a lot of large anthems of their arsenal. We’re not simply speaking old fashioned cuts, both; latest single Braindead sees them draft in H20’s Toby Morse for a straight-up hardcore-tinged anthem that has a killer hook.
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Witch Membership Devil – You Wildflower
“You do not quit.” Invoking the spirit of fierce resistance, Witch Membership Devil are again with a menacing new single in You Wildfire. With a video that bridges Midsomar and Cannibal Holocaust, the Norwegian black metallers are as incendiary and menacing as ever on this newest single, our first style of recent materials since their explosive self-titled debut in 2024. Set to make their UK debut at this 12 months’s Supersonic Pageant, we will solely hope the brand new file is simply across the nook.
Lorna Shore – Unbreakable
With large crowds turning out all over the place from Copenhell and Obtain to Hellfest, Lorna Shore have been affirming themselves because the heavyweight contenders for the deathcore crown. Newest single Unbreakable amps that sense up a hundredfold, fairly presumably the grandest single the band have put out to this point (and that is actually saying one thing) taking some large lead guitar traces and symphonic underpinnings and assembly them with unrelenting brutality. With new album I Really feel The Everblack Festering Inside Me out on September 12, the world may properly be of their sights.
Increased Energy – All The Rage
It is a ballsy transfer surprise-dropping your new album, significantly when there’s been a five-year wait for the reason that final file. However Leeds hardcore heavy-hitters Increased Energy don’t have any concern as they introduced the discharge of There’s Love In This World If You Need It right this moment, lead single All The Rage exhibiting the large stylistic leaps they’ve revamped the previous decade. The fuzzy 90s nostalgia that crept in on 2020’s 27 Miles Underwater has been expanded, shifting the band away from their Cro-Mags roots in the direction of a extra Smashing Pumpkins/shoegaze sound that also clatters the mind like a brick.
Fireplace From The Gods – Incinerate
Incinerate may properly be the heaviest single Fireplace From The Gods have ever put out. The debut of recent vocalist Myke Terry after the departure of AJ Channer final 12 months, the US rap metallers appear to be pushing in a extra visceral, much less melodically inclined course with harsh, guttural howls and whining, electronica-enhanced notes making a nerve-raising sense of discordance. We’ll be keen to listen to extra of what they have within the pipeline, that is for certain.
Halestorm – Darkness At all times Wins
Lzzy Hale has a critically large week forward. On Saturday June 28 Halestorm will help Iron Maiden on their largest ever UK headline present at London Stadium, then the next Saturday she’ll be in Birmingham’s Villa Park for the massive Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne farewell efficiency. Fortunately, Halestorm have proven they’re greater than as much as the stress. Darkness At all times Wins, the newest single from new album Everest, due August 8, may dip into energy ballad territory, but it surely’s finished with the power and power of traditional 80s balladeers like Lita Ford or Doro Pesch.
Sinsaenum – Final Goodbye
With their first two information, Sinsaeunum confirmed they had been a band eager to evolve their sound, shifting from an inspiration properly of late-80s and early-90s demise metallic to a groovier, extra nu metallic inflected sound. That evolution has seemingly continued on new album In Devastation – due August 8 – new single Final Goodbye taking over an nearly demise/doom or gothic metallic edge with its incorporation of morose melodies and cello alongside some critically ferocious breakouts.
Manegarm – I Skogsfruns Famn
Now of their thirtieth 12 months, Sweden’s Manegarm stay as charming as ever. Hanging a steadiness between frost-tipped black metallic and stirring, nearly Celtic people metallic melody, I Skogsfruns Famn is exemplar of the band’s multifaceted enchantment, chucking out riffs that might come from a Satyricon file alongside swaying melodies you may think about coming from an Ensiferum or extra folk-inclined Borknagar.
Hollywood Undead – Savior
It appears Hollywood Undead are stepping it up as they eye up a follow-up to 2022’s Resort Kalifornia. After final 12 months’s Hollywood Endlessly, the LA rap metallers are embracing their extra emotional aspect on new Savior. There’s an plain spectre of the weighty angst of Linkin Park to the monitor, but it surely additionally serves a reminder that there was a lot extra to nu metallic than thunking riffs and masks, HU retaining the spirit alive lengthy earlier than the nu metallic renaissance.
Scene Queen – L-Formed Sofa
Scene Queen has by no means cared for style gatekeepers. No large shock then she’s pushing boundaries once more on newest single L-Formed Sofa. Drawing on pop-style melodies and hooks, disco beats and the occasional crunching riff, the only is indicative of the playful, unpredictable strategy SQ takes with every new launch. There is not any phrase on a follow-up to final 12 months’s Scorching Singles In Your Space but, however with a UK and European tour coming in September it is honest to say she’ll be lively in the direction of the tip of this 12 months.
Fates Messenger – Everlasting Conflict (ft. Tim Williams)
Apocalyptic and apoplectic from the south of England, Fates Messenger go for a full blitz on the senses with newest single Everlasting Conflict. Taken from their new EP of the identical identify, which comes August 22. Edging in the direction of the extra epic, traditional heavy metallic inclined sides of metalcore (suppose early Trivium however heavier), it is an explosive introduction to their visceral sound. Hold your eyes out for this lot.
Melancolia – Spit (ft. Christopher Mackertich)
Drawing on the more durable edges of nu metallic, Melbourne’s Mélancolia are at full frenzy on new single Spit. Taken from new album random.entry.distress, out August 29, it is a clattering and skittering beast that throws severe beatdowns and shredded-throat vocals out with glee.
