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By Rich Hobson ( Metal Hammer ) Contributions from Merlin Alderslade published 15 July 22

Disturbed! Architects! Heilung! These are the best new metal tracks out this week – vote for your favourite!

Anyone else melting? Yeah, us too. But, there's no time to get intimate with iced treats and strap ourselves to an industrial sized fan when there's so much brand new music to sink our teeth into. 

Last week saw a brutal race between heavy hitters including The Hu, Amon Amarth, Parkway Drive and Within Temptation, but it was the plucky Mongolians who conquered all with Black Thunder in our public vote for last week's Track Of The Week, just as Ghengis Khan did almost 800 years before. 

This week is another assembly of top-tier metal heavyweights - Disturbed, Architects, Arch Enemy, Heilung... That's one hell of a roster. So never mind the Pantera 'reunion' - here are the best new songs you need to hear this week, for you to stick on good and loud and royally piss the neighbours off. What else would you do in this heat, anyway? 

Don't forget to cast your vote for the best track at the bottom of the page, either.

True to his promise that the new Disturbed would be “90 percent heavy” and closer to The Sickness or Ten Thousand Fists, David Draiman and the boys are back on blinding form with Hey You. From its chugging riff to Draiman’s percussive vocal, Hey You feels like a massive throwback to Disturbed’s crowning glories, complete with an absolutely massive chorus. No word on when this new album is due, but it’s off to a stellar start. 

Architects' evolution continues to see them become the kind of streamlined, turbo-polished, anthem-writing machine that festival headliners are made of. Tear Gas is a lovely slab of post-BMTH heaviness packing an earworm of a chorus tailor-made for massive venues. It's also packing the funniest music video of 2022 so far.

Riptide finally answers the question many of us have wondered for years: what would Beartooth sound like with a truly happy Caleb Shomo in their ranks? The answer? Not too dissimilar to the Beartooth we already know - big, bouncy metalcore riffs and an even bigger chorus - but infused with an infectious sense of positive momentum that you'll find it impossible not to be caught up in. Long may it continue!

Few bands have risen through metalcore's ranks as emphatically as I Prevail in recent years. The Michigan's mob latest single, taken off imminent new album True Power, is a typically well-honed slice of shiny, hook-filled riffage with a nice, meaty breakdown to pin it all together.

It might be hotter than Satan’s left nutsack right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t all enjoy some high-energy, ultra-aggro hardcore. Stick To Your Guns are on one with Hush - a musical slug to the chin with a killer refrain (‘you’ll answer for what you’ve done/with your last breath’) spat out by vocalist Jesse Barnett with so much venom you’d think he’d got cobra DNA. Truly, no chill in sight.

Getting the boot from Megadeth hasn't slowed David Ellefson's musical pursuits - in fact, if anything it seems he's taking a leaf from his old boss's book and coming back faster and heavier than ever. Dieth is the latest in a string of Ellefson's post-'deth pursuits, though goes decidedly further along the extreme path than just about anything his prior projects have, going for all-out death metal/thrash crossover territory. 

Named for Cthulu’s sister (no, we didn’t know that was a thing either), newcomers Kassogtha are going big with Venom, the first single from their upcoming second album rEvolve. Creepy, croaking vocals give way to a full-on Gojira-style breakout and… well, what more could you want? 

Technical death metal darlings Fallujah are back with a fresh new face. Vocalist Kyle Schaefer made his debut in April on Radiant Ascension (the lead single of new album Empyrean) and returns on this ear-buster, growling surprisingly optimistic lyrics. Meanwhile, we also get blast beats and guitar shreds aplenty – of course! More intricate brutality will surely follow when Empyrean drops in September.

Be honest, if you heard Vended's Ded To Me without context, you'd still say "fucking hell, this sounds like Slipknot". Simon Crahan and Griffin Taylor certainly aren't afraid to embrace the sound that turned their dads into chart-topping worldbeaters, and damned if they don't do a mighty fine job of bringing back the exhilirating pulse of nu metal. With their debut at Bloodstock looming in just a few weeks, it looks like we might just be seeing the start of something very special for Vended. 

At this point, calling Arch Enemy "anthemic" feels almost redundant, the band having made it their bread and butter to write some of the catchiest, most epic and inspiring melodeath songs in the business. Few bands can match them when it comes to taking extreme metal to the masses, and In The Eye Of The Storm is everything massive about Arch Enemy in a neat four-and-a-half minute package. 

Staff writer for Metal Hammer, Rich has never met a feature he didn't fancy, which is just as well when it comes to covering everything rock, punk and metal for both print and online, be it legendary events like Rock In Rio or Clash Of The Titans or seeking out exciting new bands like Nine Treasures, Jinjer and Sleep Token. 

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