Metal Hammer's weekly round-up of new metal releases highlights standout tracks from Blue Medusa, Fear Factory, Evanescence and Blind Channel, as September brings a busy run of new album releases from acts including Chat Pile, Sleep and President. The feature also reveals last week's reader poll results, with In This Moment's "I Want To Believe" voted the overall favourite and Amon Amarth's "Eight Legs Of Thunder" finishing third behind black metal act I Helvete.

Alissa White-Gluz's project Blue Medusa impresses with the melodic death metal track "Crocodile", while Fear Factory's "Roboticist" sees new vocalist Milo Silvestro closely echoing the band's classic sound following Burton C. Bell's 2020 departure. Evanescence's "Tell Me When You've Had Enough" previews their forthcoming album Sanctuary, continuing on from 2021's The Bitter Truth, and Finnish band Blind Channel offer the metalcore-tinged "Stars We See" ahead of their new album Painstream, due out on 30 October.