Favorite new songs / August 2025

[Hair I Go Again]

I'm cheating this time around, as I stumbled across some stuff in August that was released earlier this year, but that I didn't hear until recently.

Tiberius - Singing For Company (favorite song: Mosaic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEHHkC8o9d0)
I'm not very well-versed in modern prog-metal, so the reference points for this UK-based band (Coheed, Protest The Hero) don't mean much to me, but I gave this a spin after reading a Metal Hammer blurb and was pleasantly surprised. Quality stuff.

The Lazys - Hot Under The Collar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNp-_hjBEI4)
Hard rock from Australia. You can guess exactly what it sounds like.

Fury - Interceptor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCkBUtYK68)
Co-ed UK band that's kind of a combination of WASP and Fireball Ministry. Metallic, but melodic. New album comes out this week.

Albums that came out in August that I don't think I'll ever listen to again:
Bryan Adams - Roll With The Punches
Ellefson-Soto - Unbreakable
Crowne - Wonderland (quality music, but the vocals are a bit OTT for my tastes)

[Ham Stroker's Ejacula]

BLACKBRAID “Traversing the Forest of Eternal Dusk”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wWfC8 ... raid-Topic

CASTRATOR “Fragments of Defiance”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxjFqnM ... ator-Topic

DESASTER “Throne of Ecstasy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFDxiB ... adeRecords

FARSEER “A Shattered Orb Signals the Erasure of Parallel Timelines”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLMEl_P ... =666MrDoom

HARVESTED “Harvested”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geF_C-Q ... =Harvested

IN MOURNING “North Star”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJW0xK ... InMourning

LOMMI “Sayonara”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU_iwOg ... OMMI-Topic

PANOPTICON “This Mortal Coil’s Rusted”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkRSmY6 ... icon-Topic

RETCHING “Septic Entombment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYcEra ... hing-Topic

UNLEASHED “War Comes Again”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0oVVe ... almRecords

[daveg]

Favorite Albums this month

Pecos and the Rooftops - From me
Three Days Grace - Alienation
Eli Young Band - Strange Hours
Childs Play - Rat Race and Reunions - The Lost Tapes
Chris Janson - Wild Horses
Old Dominion - Barbara

[DwightFry]

Throw Yourself to the Sword - Die Spitz

[Gibsonite]

White Horses - Wolf Alice. Sadly, its the only good song on this dud of an album

[Tyketto Meniketti]

I'm cheating this time around, as I stumbled across some stuff in August that was released earlier this year, but that I didn't hear until recently.

Tiberius - Singing For Company (favorite song: Mosaic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEHHkC8o9d0)
I'm not very well-versed in modern prog-metal, so the reference points for this UK-based band (Coheed, Protest The Hero) don't mean much to me, but I gave this a spin after reading a Metal Hammer blurb and was pleasantly surprised. Quality stuff.

The Lazys - Hot Under The Collar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNp-_hjBEI4)
Hard rock from Australia. You can guess exactly what it sounds like.

Fury - Interceptor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCkBUtYK68)
Co-ed UK band that's kind of a combination of WASP and Fireball Ministry. Metallic, but melodic. New album comes out this week.

Albums that came out in August that I don't think I'll ever listen to again:
Bryan Adams - Roll With The Punches
Ellefson-Soto - Unbreakable
Crowne - Wonderland (quality music, but the vocals are a bit OTT for my tastes)

The Fury tune is kinda cool. The chorus with two chicks is huge and melodic. Some producer needs to tell the drummer to stop snorting coke or whatever has him going 1000 miles an hour. Dial it back a little and they have a great song.

Tiberius was interesting, like Bubblegum Prog. Lol!

[TravisBicklesMohawk]

Ho9909- Incline

[LovePowerFromTheMamaHead]

Revis - Killing Time https://youtu.be/DTH5s2UPR2E?feature=shared

[HORRORHOLIC1979]

Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtner Laplante - End Of You
https://youtu.be/3rS83uI0Wak?si=dQ8MseeVHfC-9rAi

[daveg]

Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtner Laplante - End Of You
https://youtu.be/3rS83uI0Wak?si=dQ8MseeVHfC-9rAi

Checked it out, and it is a great song. Something about Lee's voice just grates on me though.