Single Slam: Clutch, Tokyo Taboo, Heilung, Necronautical, TX2, DragonForce, Believe in Nothing x Tayne, Haint, King 810, Justice for the Damned, Moonveil, and Fear Factory!

Today’s single slam features Clutch, Tokyo Taboo, Heilung, Necronautical, TX2, DragonForce, Believe in Nothing x Tayne, Haint, King 810, Justice for the Damned, Moonveil, and Fear Factory. You can read our thoughts about the latest singles from these bands below.

Single Slam Playlists – November 2026

Clutch – Beware the Fever

Clutch have released ‘Beware the Fever’, the new single from their forthcoming fourteenth studio album, ‘Wasted Lands’, due 22nd January 2027 via Weathermaker.

Featuring a banjo, which is cool enough, this new Clutch track has swagger. The kind that comes from layers of groove and melody. Clutch rarely steer too far out of their comfort zone, and this track isn’t going to surprise anyone, but it is going to delight everyone. The chorus is fire, but it’s all about that bloody banjo.

Tokyo Taboo – FREAK!

London rockers Tokyo Taboo are building off their very successful Summer with unleashing their new single ‘FREAK!’. An anthem for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or that they don’t fit in, FREAK! will speak to people from all walks of life.

As someone who has been recently coming to terms with her ADHD & bisexuality, Tokyo Taboo frontwoman Dolly Daggerz wrote FREAK! about being bullied and feeling shame for taking up space and feeling more comfortable hiding and masking. Ultimately though, Dolly explains, it becomes too painful to shrink yourself:

There comes a breaking point where you just can’t hide anymore. As I get older I become more of who I truly am and accept my weird brain for all of its crazy ideas. I don’t shame myself anymore and I don’t hide. There’s something brave about being yourself loudly and it inspires others to be their true selfs too! Dedicated to all my freaks out there – you are amazing!

A strong showcase of alternative rock, this new Tokyo Taboo track is one hell of an anthem. Not only filled with the kind of power that buoys the soul, but with a chorus that you can’t help but sing along to. They’re a band you can’t help but love!

Heilung – Seidh

Heilung, the world-famous ritual collective from Denmark, Norway and Germany, have released ‘Seidh’, with an official music video directed by Gornoss. The track is the second single from ‘Sagas’, the collective’s release of songs from the time collaborating with Ninja Theory for the video game Hellblade II: Senua’s Saga, which arrives on Season of Mist on December 11th, 2026.

I loved the game, and a big part of that came from the soundtrack, so to hear it given new life through this release, is wonderful. It’s Heilung doing what they do best, but this particular track has an explorative side that feels more open, at least until it transforms into a powerful warrior’s chant. Stunning.

Necronautical – Shadow Work

Following the recent announcement of their highly anticipated fifth full-length record, “The Second Death” (set for release on December 4 via Vendetta Records), UK black metal outfit Necronautical have unveiled the official music video for their brand-new single, ‘Shadow Work’.

A focused and ferocious blast of blackened noise, this is Necronautical at their most straight-forward, but what it lacks in originality, it makes up for with sheer power. It’s brutally heavy, has a hyperactive pace throughout, and comes with a thick injection of darkness. What’s not to like?

TX2 – I Am the Enemy

Colorado alternative trailblazers TX2 have released their new single ‘I Am the Enemy’, a bold statement about embracing who you are in a world that constantly scrutinises you.

Evan Thomas of TX2 shares:

‘I Am the Enemy’ was written from a place of owning who I am in a world where my identity is constantly under scrutiny. If my confidence and unwillingness to change myself is a problem, then I have no problem being a villain.

There’s a boldness to this track that I quite like. TX2 getting a bit more ‘in your face’ and showcasing more of their addictive swagger. All while still delivering plenty of anthemic alternative rock to move and groove to.

DragonForce – Neverending Nightmare

Power metal pioneers DragonForce return with ‘Neverending Nightmare’, the second single from their upcoming self-titled tenth studio album, out on March 19th, 2027, via Napalm Records.

This latest chapter of DragonForce continues to come with so many familiar elements, while also having a freshness thanks to Alissa White-Gluz’s vocals. If you like what you’ve heard so far, then you’ll probably like this to, even though I find it lacks hooky elements.

Believe in Nothing x Tayne – Carcosa

Just over a year on from their monolithic debut album ‘Rot’, Believe in Nothing have teamed up with fellow sonic manipulators, Tayne, to deliver the single ‘Carcosa’. Both bands share a love for the crime drama ‘True Detective’ and have based the track around the dark skeletal labyrinth that features in the show.

Two of my favourite noisy bands teaming up to create a headache inducing, muscle aching, bone crunching industrial racket. Perhaps if you know your True Detective, you’ll get a little more out of it (I don’t), but regardless, I found myself hypnotised by the garish intensity of it all. Especially as it’s far more danceable than you might first think. That’s the Tayne in the track.

Haint – Poison the Stream

‘Poison the Stream’ is the new single from Brit progressive metallers Haint. It’s the lead single from their upcoming mini album, ‘Every Scar Tells a Story’, out on Friday 12th February 2027.

Says Haint:

Our guitarist was diagnosed with blood cancer the same year we played Bloodstock and this song runs the course of emotions felt going through chemotherapy and psychological effects of it all. But staying strong and holding on enough to fight and beat it.

The power is one thing, the progressive thinking is another, but the poignancy that runs through the track like a bulging vein is what makes this special. It is a staggeringly good track that puts you through the emotional wringer, which speaks volumes about Haint’s song-writing abilities. This one will stay with you for a while.

King 810 – Simulacra Simulating

American metal force King 810 have revealed a suitably eerie cinematic video for their new single ‘Simulacra Simulating’. The track will appear on their forthcoming new album La Grande Mort or Silence of God, out on 27th November.

Discussing the intimate themes of the single, David Gunn shares:

French theorist Jean Baudrillard said we live in hyperreality now – nothing but simulations of things that never had an original. ‘Simulacra Simulating’ is about testing that theory against the one thing that refuses to be fake: what it actually feels like to love someone.

Everything around us might be a copy of a copy. This song is about how love still gets through anyway – how something real can grow out of a world built entirely out of simulations.

If Baudrillard is right and none of this is real, then love is the glitch. It’s the one thing hyperreality can’t actually simulate.

I am so on board with this new record, and love how experimental King 810 are getting on it. Case in point? This expressive explosion of dramatic metal that defines the word ‘artistic’. Words can’t do it justice, it’s so cool.

Justice for the Damned – Torn in Two

Sydney metal titans Justice for the Damned cap off the year with their pummelling new single “Torn in Two”, out everywhere via Greyscale Records.

Says vocalist Bobak Rafiee:

Written during a time of two ongoing wars, one connected to my own bloodline’s homeland, the song reflects on how easily even the people we consider wise or educated can be influenced by what they see online.

We’re all bound by our own knowledge and awareness, meaning what feels like reality to one person can look like an illusion to another. The song ultimately builds toward a bleak realisation about how much of our public concern for others can become performative, and whether, beneath it all, we’re ultimately more concerned with ourselves.

Sounding angrier than ever, this is the best kind of Justice for the Damned. The kind that spits fire, delivers a constant stream of vitriolic heaviness, and refuses to let up for even a second. It goes hard, simple as that.

Moonveil – Yuuki

Moonveil, a heavy and shoegaze outfit from the North of England, have released ‘Yuuki’. A dark, apocalyptic descent about overthrowing false idols and consuming the sun. It is the first release from their upcoming debut EP, ‘Soulshrine’ (out Spring 2027).

Heavier and more intense than I expected, Moonveil blend a ferocious kind of ‘core’ infusion with melodic drama that slips into shoegaze territories, notably in the chorus. It’s quite a fascinating listen that grows in power as it goes on, and leaves you wanting a little more.

Fear Factory – Detonizer

For over three decades, industrial metal pioneers Fear Factory have explored the friction between man and machine, tracing the rise of artificial intelligence and humanity’s loss of control over its own creations. Noe, the band announces the next evolution in their cybernetic journey with their eleventh studio album, ‘Roboticist’, arriving 9th April 2027 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Death is no longer the end. The machine no longer needs humanity; it inherits the future.

Alongside the album announcement, comes the brand-new single, ‘Detonizer’.

Sounding wholly unenthused, this new Fear Factory track lacks spark, even though all the usual elements are front and centre. I just think this band’s best years are behind them, and this just comes across as a poor attempt to recapture a time and sound. I’ll always love what Fear Factory created, but I’m beginning to believe that they might be obsolete.