METAL

“Fire and Tears” by Fire and Tears wastes no time making its mark. Off the band’s self-titled debut, Fire and Tears, this is a statement piece, in-between gothic anthem, battle hymn, and all heart-pounding metal fury. The record as a whole is an epic saga, but this track feels like…

Cotswolds-born rock outfit THIEVES dropped their new single “Ascension” on June 27th, 2025, recorded at the legendary Treehouse Studios—a space that has hosted everyone from Bullet for My Valentine and Busted to Sleep Token, Elbow, and The Maccabees. Formed back in 2014 by guitarist Conor Robertson, vocalist Matthew Cooper, and…

Heavy hitting truths, loud guitars and an infectious energy make up the DNA of Phoenix, AZ’s modern rock band, Jane N’ The Jungle, formed as a garage rock band in 2013 with childhood friends Jordan White and Brian Dellis. The band has an unquenched thirst for communication that demands attention…

“Das Geisterschiff” by Nordstahl is a storm-worn vessel drifting straight into your gut. From the first gentle, flowing piano notes, there’s a deceptive calm, like the glassy surface before the squall. Then the drums roll in, slow but heavy, pounding like distant thunder, while distorted guitars blaze and buzz, dragging…

Nordstahl’s latest release, Ragnarök in Berlin, rips the attention from your hands and shoves it into the smoldering wreckage of a civilization asleep at the wheel. The album kicks off with “Midgards Schlaf,” a haunting, slow-burn opener where strings swell like a storm on the horizon and the vocals creep…

Four years after #Resist, the politically supercharged U.K. duo Calling All Astronauts is back with a vengeance, and their latest album, Noise Against Tyranny, is as raw, genre-blending, and confrontational as you’d expect, maybe even more. David B’s gravelly vocals paired with Paul McCrudden’s dense, dystopian soundscapes make for an…

Leave it to Alex Haines to throw out the rulebook and shred a new one from scratch. With her latest album, The Instrumental Sessions, the New York-based melodic metal artist shows that vocals aren’t the only way to scream from the soul. This background music is so emotionally layered as…

Nordstahl’s “Mjölnir” is a thunderous, unapologetically aggressive metal anthem that utilizes the primal rage of a warrior’s chant and the smoldering energy of defiance to charge forward like an avalanche of iron and fire. Right out of the gate, distorted guitar riffs grind like chainsaws through bone, while the beats…

Electron’s newest single, “You Betray,” is a visceral plunge into the chaotic duality of rage and vulnerability, seizes attention with both hands and refuses to let go. Hailing from London’s raw and rising metalcore scene, the band has already turned heads with support from Kerrang!, Notion, BraveWords, and more, but…

Max Chaos crashes onto the metal scene like a storm surge with his debut single “Ride The Wave,” released on June 13, 2025—because what better day to unleash mayhem than Friday the 13th? The song is the first lick of Order of Mayhem, the upcoming album bringing all of nu-metal,…