Welcome to a new feature of our website: hard-hitting singles of the month. Every month will gather an overview of some of the best singles our staff has encountered.

We may have had a festival-free July, but many bands still released new songs to keep spirits high during the summer. Here is a selection of what we enjoyed the most:

Trve Kvlt Clvb – Empty Alley

Wilderun – O Resolution!

Keoma – Gaia

Oceans of Slumber – The Adorned Fathomless Creation

Balance Breach – Aurora

LoveBites – Thunder Vengeance

Finntroll – Ormfolk

The Blinders – Black Glass

Mercury Circle – The Beauty of Agony

Vreid – Milorg (In the mountains of Sognametal)

Kataklysm – The Killshot

Unleash The Archers – Soulbound

Ayreon – Hopelessly Slipping Away (feat. Tom Baker, Cammie Gilbert, & Tommy Karevik)

Draconian – Sorrow of Sophia

Varg – Zeichen

Pain of Salvation – Accelerator

Kamelot – Phantom Divine (Shadow Empire) ft. Lauren Hart

Aleah – The Tower

Damnation Angels – Rewrite The Future

Orbit Culture – Open Eye

Orden Ogan – In The Dawn of the AI

Corey Taylor – CMFT Must Be Stopped (feat. Tech N9ne & Kid Bookie)

Warkings ft. The Queen of the Damned – Odin’s Sons