New Music with a Side Of Beeeeef: Dayseeker, Starve, Babymetal + Bloodywood, Terminal Sleep, Beartooth and BMTH

Goddamn the middle of the year is bringing out the best in our fav acts!

Whether it be hearing demolishers from Australia, International metalcore greats levelling up or an Asian metal assault on the senses, there's something for every taste with this beeeeeefy collection of the best tunes from the past week.

Hook in!

Starve

Everyone's favourite unsigned core crushers, Starve, have made a harrowing return to heavy music with the dauntingly addictive 'Wrong Body'. As usual, Jordan Dunbar screams new life into us while Darcy Carroll (drum) rolls with the blasties - making you question whether it's appropriate to open up a pit exactly where you stand while listening. As the song progresses, it becomes more even more unrelenting, almost like a journey into hell with a brutal soundscape dragging you under. Alessio Valentini-Marano continues to breach the confines of metal/hardcore with his intricate playing style which makes it an ungodly difficult to categorise this band, so it's best we continue headbanging to the song's completion through that nassssty as fuckkkkkk breakdown - complete with bellowing gutturals, demonic growls and an unsettling feeling that ceases until the final note is played.

After wowing us with their debut album Life's Promise Dies last year, it's safe to say Starve are refusing to slow down, and we're in for the long haul.

Stream 'Wrong Body' here

Words by Paul 'Browny' Brown @brownypaul

To keep up with the best Australia and New Zealand releases in 2025 - follow our Heavyweights & Hitmakers Playlist - available on Spotify, Apple Music and TIDAL

Dayseeker

Dayseeker usually boast favour from their calm, and more often than not, sultry and intoxicating energy. Whilst ‘Creature In The Black Night’ harnesses these key Dayseeker elements, there is something more lurking beyond. After ushering through a tasteful and melodic anthem of alluringness and provocativeness, there is a final descent into madness, with heavy riffs, churning bass… and a blegh? It is safe to say I fell off my chair upon the first listen, and I was reinvigorated listening to the rest of the track. If this is setting the scene for the album ahead, Dayseeker fans best watch out, because I have a feeling they have more than one trick up their sleeve, and it’s only a matter of time before they are dazzling in front of us. 

The band's new album Creature In the Black Night is out October 24th and that time cannot come any quicker. Pre-order here

Words by Georgia Haskins @ghaskins2002

Terminal Sleep

Melbourne’s Terminal Sleep have levelled the fuck up. You can see them at house shows in Canberra, or you can see them on huge stages all around the world. Their first track ‘Death Therapy’ just hit a million streams, and there’s no sign of slowing down. Terminal Sleep took their next step to world decimation, when they announced their signing to Nuclear Blast Records, and topped it off with their first track of 2025 with ‘They Circle Below’. This song pulls no punches, combining intense hardcore riffs with stylistic licks and chunky as fuck bass. Bec Thorwesten is a powerhouse on the mic, and so are her accompanying band members, adding more crushing impact.

The new era of Terminal Sleep has begun, and you’re missing out if you’re not on board.

Stream ‘They Circle Below’ here

Words by Tyler Lubke @huntsman421

Babymetal x Bloodywood

Babymetal continue their march towards fifth LP, Metal Forth, with their latest single. ‘Kon! Kon!’ is collaboration with Indian sensation Bloodywood. Like previous single ‘Song 3’ (featuring Slaughter to Prevail), Babymetal combine their fox god mythology with their collaborator, making ‘Kon! Kon!’ a collision of Asian metal superpowers. It’s got the Nu metal rhythms and rapping from Bloodywood, with a touch of flute, against the j-pop headbanger vibe of Babymetal.

It’s actually their second collaboration, after Babymetal appeared on ‘Bekhauf’ from Bloodywood’s album Nu Delhi earlier this year.

Metal Forth is out August 8. Pre-order here

Words by KJ Draven @kjdraven

BMTH go Lo-Fi

Had enough headbanging for one day? Let's face it, sometimes us metalheads need time off the brutal heaviness that life throws at us and with the rise in popularity of Lo-Fi remixes, BMTH have jumped in and re-worked a whole stack of their classic tracks, giving them a soothing makeover that you can play in your normie office without your co-workers calling you the anti-christ... Personal favs include 'Drown', 'Lost', 'Doomed', and 'Throne'. It's also the perfect album to unwind and fall asleep while listening - so give your neck a break and open up a pit of relaxation in your mind.

Lose yourself and drift away here

Beartooth

While it's not quite new music, this is the best Beartooth have ever sounded in a live setting. I Was A... LIVE is the band's brand new live album which was recorded during their epic home town show last year at The Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio. It's a full 90 minute spectacular that's also available on YouTube with the full set. The show features Beartooth's most precise performance yet, covering their career extensively through the albums Disgusting Disease Below The Surface... as well as a terrific cover of The Killers' 'Mr Brightside' for good measure.

If you are yet to witness Caleb Shomo and co. in a live setting, or are pining for their live return to your city... this will tide you over for the meantime.

Stream or pre-order the 2x LP vinyl (while stocks last) right here

Words by Paul 'Browny' Brown @brownypaul