Blissful Friday! It seems like Autumn is effectively and actually right here now (within the UK, a minimum of) and with it an insanely stacked the rest of 2025 as we get into the final push for releases and excursions. Even with that in thoughts, we’re additionally beginning to see 2026’s launch calendar fill in, as new albums are being introduced seemingly day by day.
However we’re getting forward of ourselves. First, the outcomes of final week’s vote! It was one hell of a good race for high spot, with mega Poppy/Amy Lee/Courtney LaPlante collab taking a wholesome third place however left far behind by our high two rivals. It was a tough race between The Yagas and Lord Of The Misplaced, however in the end the Germans received out with their Eurovision collab Raveyard, taking high spot.
As ever, we have a various choice so that you can dive into this week, starting from rising expertise like Urne, Mallvora and Amira Elfeky to veterans like Testomony, Limp Bizkit and Mudvayne. Do not forget to solid your vote within the ballot beneath – and have a improbable weekend. Blissful listening!
Urne – Be Not Dismayed
With their first two albums, Urne proved they had been one in every of metallic’s most enjoyable new underground bands. Be Not Dismayed would not lose that momentum. After doubling down on their heaviest components with 2023’s A Feast On Sorrow, the London-based band have seemingly rediscovered their groove and classical heavy metallic leanings for brand new album Setting Fireplace To The Sky, putting a stability between pummelling heft and epic, hovering lead guitars that feels completely thrilling. There is a good whereas to attend for the brand new album – January 30, 2026 – however the band are additionally on tour with Orange Goblin later this yr, making it the right tour for followers of huge, unstoppable riffs.
Testomony – Shadow Folks
Extra riffs, you say? Fourteen albums and over 40 years in, and Testomony are nonetheless delivering the products. Shadow Folks comes from subsequent month’s Para Bellum – due October 10 – and finds the Bay Space legends stomping forth with dogged dedication, easing off the accelerator in favour of one thing that’ll provide you with one hell of a sore neck as a mid-pace headbanger.
Past The Black – The Artwork Of Being Alone (ft. Lord Of The Misplaced)
Past The Black mood their goth-tinged symphonic metallic with the brooding baritone of Lord Of The Misplaced vocalist Chris Harms on new single The Artwork Of Being Alone. Harms and Jennifer Haben’s voices bounce off one another extremely effectively and the interaction lends a way of drama and grandeur befitting BTB’s rising star standing. With new album Break The Silence approaching January ninth 2026, and a UK tour kicking off only a week later, it is trying doubtless that Past The Black will hit the bottom working subsequent yr.
Sabaton – Crossing The Rubicon (ft. Nothing Extra)
Even in a profession that is seen them workforce up with Babymetal and Apocalyptica, a Sabaton collab with radio rockers Nothing Extra feels fairly shocking. It would not divert consideration from the Swedes’ model of thumping heavy metallic nonetheless, Crossing The Rubicon nonetheless powered by a fist-pumping riff and gargantuan vocal that’s completely complemented by the addition of Nothing Extra’s Johnny Hawkins. It leads to one thing match for the arenas the ability metallers now play, triumphant and constructing loads of pleasure for the arrival of recent album Legends on October 17.
Limp Bizkit – Making Love To Morgan Wallen
Previous experiences say it is best to not depend your chickens in terms of new Limp Bizkit albums, new singles or no. However even when Making Love To Morgan Wallen is not the primary single from their upcoming seventh album, its a primo slice of old style nu metallic, all chugging riffs and weird Durst narratives with a giant ol’ hook at its coronary heart.
RinRin – Killher
There’s an actual playful menace to the thrumming electronica of RinRin’s new single Killher. Swinging from buoyant alt. metallic choruses to glass-in-the-throat screams, the monitor is typical of the Australia-based artist’s disregard for style, sprinkling bits of hyperpop into the combination to create one thing genuinely fascinating. Taken from her debut album The Nut Home, out right this moment, it is positively one to take a look at in case you’ve been enraptured by the likes of Poppy or Spiritbox in recent times.
Well being – Strange Loss
Few bands tread the stability between dystopian dread and dancefloor-ready excitability than Well being. The LA industrial metallers are again with new album Battle DLC due on December 11. Lead single Strange Loss comes on like a stampede in a subterranean Berlin basement membership, pulsing synths giving option to onerous, thundering beats that bypass the mind to get straight to your nerve endings and make you wish to headbang, shake your ass and usually transfer like a manaic.
Love Is Noise – Everybody Bleeds
Having launched their debut album To Dwell In A Totally different Approach again in February, you’d suppose Love Is Noise is perhaps resting on their laurels. Clearly, the band had different plans. Everybody Bleeds picks up the 90s/flip of the millennium nostalgia of their debut and pushes it in a heavier path, pushing only a bit additional out from the Deftones comparisons they earned beforehand. These components are nonetheless there in fact, however there’s additionally a definite character that’s solely Love Is Noise’s personal, suggesting thrilling developments for the place they might go subsequent. Within the meantime, they will be on tour with Detest in December – nu metallic revival nirvana if ever we have seen it.
Match For An Post-mortem – It Comes For You
Hyperactive, high-intensity excessive metallic, Match For An Post-mortem’s It Comes For You could be very in holding for a band who’ve made their identify producing uncompromising, thrilling nastiness. Launched forward of the band’s tour with Killswitch Have interaction in Europe and the UK which kicks off in a few weeks, it is but extra pleasant sonic acrobatshittery and a pleasant top-up after final yr’s The Nothing That Is.
Mudvayne – Sticks And Stones
Typical: you wait 16 years for a brand new Mudvayne single and two arrive inside weeks. Not that we’re complaining, in fact. Arriving proper because the band kick off their L.D. 50 anniversary tour within the US, the brand new single positively has shades of Mudvayne’s basic sound, making nice use of Chad Grey’s versatile vocal as he switches between easy cleans and ferocious snarls towards a bedrock of chugging low-end. New album in 2026? We’re overdue…
Mallavora – Smile
Epic, livid and ferocious, Smile is an ideal introduction in case you’ve not already found rising British band Mallavora. An explosive monitor exploring the frustration of individuals with disabilities when confronted with discrimination, there is a cautious stability between excessive metallic bluster and alt metallic anthemia, the band even folding in some distinct Center Jap fashion melodies as reference to vocalist Jessica Douek’s Jewish Center Jap roots. Maintain your eyes out for this lot, as this sounds huge.
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Amira Elfeky – Maintain Onto Me
A rising alt metallic star, Amira Elfeky has had a busy yr. First popping up as a visitor on Architects‘ new album The Sky, The Earth & All Between, Elfeky then launched her personal EP Give up in March earlier than making her UK stay debut at each Obtain Pageant and a sold-out London present. Clearly itching to do extra, she’s now again with raging new single Maintain Onto Me, a monitor that skitters between thumping nu metallic riffs, metalcore breakdowns and radio-friendly choruses that’ll absolutely assist solidy her standing as one in every of alt. metallic’s most vibrant new acts.
