We don’t know what’s in the water, but there’s a lot of new music floating around this week. Luckily, we’re looking high and low to find the best, brightest, and most exciting new songs from Steel, so think about this. like a path through the jungles of noisy anarchy.  

First, the effects of last week’s vote!The Japanese steel scene continues to thrive in terms of popularity and number of interesting bands on offer, with Bridear taking third position in the survey, while Bristol nu steelcore champions held a comfortable position. The big winner despite Band-Maid, with the new bachelor Protect You leaving the festival in dust. If you missed them, check out the singles in our huge playlist below!

We have a wonderfully varied variety of sounds to offer you this week. From Botswana’s brutal Overthrust death steel to Charlotte Wessels’ pop-steel (and some opera styles), to Nails tinkering with speed steel and new steelcore offerings, we’ve been given a clever diversity of styles and subgenres to explore. As always, we want you to tell us which songs you’re most passionate about, so don’t vote on the ballot below. Have a wonderful weekend!

Suicidal Tendencies may possibly be a crusading legend, but in those days they’re also something of a supergroup, showcasing the talents of former Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman, former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg, and prodigy bassist Tye Trujillo. The new singles Nós Somos Família gives a glimpse of what those musicians are capable of performing in combination with the well-established ST sound, thrashy releases that clash with a sense of punk zeal, and exhilarating instrumentals that capture some of the intense power the band exudes while playing live. A new album soon? We can only wait.  

While doom steel legends My Dying Bride seem to be frozen due to “unresolved rifts within the band,” frontman Aaron Stainthorpe is looking for his gothic solution with the new band High Parasite. The band’s deyet album, Forever We Burn, is due out on September 27 and the most recent single, Grave Intentions, features a more fiery and venomous sound than the funereal grandeur of their other band, still in line with their paintings beyond but putting a new spin on it.  

Botswana death steel brutes Overthrust released their new album Infected By Myth last week, and now we have a new logo to bite into in the form of Fallen Witches. The band’s penchant for old-school death steel is still at the forefront, but escape a weird, almost jazzy, thrash in the middle of the track that pulls them away from the same old comparisons of Deicide and Cannibal Corpse, sublime guitar paintings that add an otherworldly presence to their sound.  

Nu Steel veterans and masked steel fans Mushroomhead release their ninth album Call The Devil on August 9, a new pre-packaged single that shows they’re not straying too far from their core sound. Damned, out-of-tune riffs and apocalyptic vibes abound, serving as a reminder that while nu steel brought the influence of hip hop to the forefront of steel, it also paved the way for mainstream death steel leanings.   

Given the good fortune they had with their Silver Scream releases, it’s easy that when Ice Nine Kills released their debut album almost 20 years ago, they had their feet firmly planted in the worlds of pop punk and ska. That said, the choice to cover ’80s pop hit Walking On Sunshine with sunny ska punks Reel Big Fish doesn’t seem all that shocking, a convenient reminder that the band has a lot more to offer than brutal breakups and horror movie references. .  

Electronic duo Wargasm have gone from strength to strength in recent years, appearing at almost every single festival on the planet while touring with the likes of Limp Bizkit and even inviting Fred Durst as a guest on the track Bang Ya Head on their 2023 debut, Venom. After betting the album entirely on a “tank graveyard” earlier this week, the company unveiled its first new post-Venom single, written by Corey Taylor in 70% Dead. Taylor’s signature growls resonate over dancefloor-filling beats and punchy basslines, the band still sounds completely exclusive and fresh even when partnering with steel legends.  

Keep your picks high, Wind Rose has a new album on the way!The Italian band has been churning out Force Steel anthems with a sense of joyful laughter and high-fantasy camp for years (let’s not forget the huge viral fortune of their Diggy Diggy Hole cover), so it’s no surprise that the new single Rock And Stone is some other explosive. insole that incorporates popular steel elements to make the track feel like a Meadhall (or Dwarf Cavern, as the case may be) favorite. Taken from the new album Trollslayer, due out on October 4, which also coincides with the start of their tour with Powerwolf and Hammerfall in Germany, the track suggests that there are many more jubilant anthems to come.  

It’s a testament to Charlotte Wessels’ journey with her upcoming album The Obsession, due out on September 20, that new single Dopamine is radically different from other singles The Exorcism and Chasing Sunsets. There’s an almost Amaranthe-like steely pop sensibility to Dopamine that’s underpinned by the video’s bubblegum tones, yet there’s still an undercurrent of Wessels’ symphonic afterlife in the track’s operatic vocals, with the addition of the Epica singer Simone Simons cementing a sense of infinite perspective and collaboration.  

Rising stars of extreme steel, Grind School, developed some of their sonic talents with the EP DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL in early 2024, but the new single Turbulence offers a glimpse of the direction the band could take next on the new album Dreams On Algorithms, due out in October. 18. Some healthy, screeching, brutal final hits on the track, but more unexpected is the left turn into a harder, steelier sound of the track, the heavy riff and catchy vocals reminiscent of British steelcore favourites Employed To Serve, albeit with excessive steel panics that the band rarely stray too far from their roots.  

Nails make speed metal. Which naturally means absolute auditory carnage, with the grindcore heroes flying forward at around 300mph and hitting almost anything they can reach in the process. It won’t be long until the new album Every Bridge Burning arrives (August 30), but we can still say that the world is in a position to receive the absolute collage it is about to receive.  

Considering how much noise rock has intersected with the global steel and global choice in recent years (its imprint is evident in everyone from IDLES to Ken Mode, Empire State Bastard, Lingua Ignota, and more), a moment coming from The Jesus Lizard is a long one. late. The 26-year wait for new curtains is almost over, with new album Rack arriving on September 13 while new bachelor Alexis Feels Sick shows that the band’s minimalist, unsettling strangeness remains as ever.  

German metalcore veterans Caliban have been releasing free albums for 25 years, and their release has honed their ability to create sublime melodies amid brutal and vicious sonic attacks. It’s no surprise, then, that I Was A Happy Kid Once continues this beautiful tradition, with the core of the song built around an overwhelming major beat that feels like it’s being trampled by a group of angry bears, giving way to a transparent and heartfelt chorus that will actually make enthusiasts roar.  

If you want to present your metalcore in a technically shiny package, you’d do well to check out Higher Ground, Exist Immortal’s newest single. There’s a choppy riff that feels almost similar to Meshuggah’s and sits in the middle of the track, without losing sight of the radio sensibility that made Architects or While She Sleeps so beloved. Add the guest voice of Megan Targett from Vexed and you have a track full of energy and ambition. If you’re in the United Kingdom, be sure to check them out. on Bloodstock on August 9.  

As for Metal Hammer, Rich has never come across a story he didn’t like, which is just as clever when it comes to covering all rock, punk and steel whether in print and online, whether it’s mythical occasions like Rock In Rio. or Clash. Of The Titans or looking for exciting new bands like Nine Treasures, Jinjer and Sleep Token.  

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