Beartooth, Eyes Closed | Song Review
![Beartooth, Pure Ecstasy [📷: Beartooth Band, LLC / Fearless Records]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/beartooth-pure-ecstasy.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Caleb Shomo backlash aside, Beartooth delivers an enjoyable, spirited single with “Eyes Closed,” the second track from their sixth album, Pure Ecstasy.

Sifting through all of the musical hype

Sifting through all of the musical hype
![Beartooth, Pure Ecstasy [📷: Beartooth Band, LLC / Fearless Records]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/beartooth-pure-ecstasy.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Caleb Shomo backlash aside, Beartooth delivers an enjoyable, spirited single with “Eyes Closed,” the second track from their sixth album, Pure Ecstasy.
![Ghost, Skeletá [📷: Loma Vista Recordings]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ghost-skeleta-e1756651208907.jpeg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Grammy-winning Swedish band Ghost makes us shed a tear of joy listening to “Lachryma,” the banging second single from Skeleta.
![Ghost, Skeletá [📷: Loma Vista Recordings]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ghost-skeleta-e1756651208907.jpeg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Grammy-winning Swedish metal band Ghost ‘brings the heat,’ and a heaping dose of blasphemy, damnation, heresy, and satanism, on “Satanized.”
![Behemoth, The Shit Ov God [📷: Nuclear Blast]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/behemoth-the-shit-ov-god.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Polish metal band Behemoth continues to promote atheism and satanism in their energetic, highly blasphemous single, “The Shit Ov God.”
![Cattle Decapitation, "We Eat Our Young" [📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Metal Blade; OpenClipart-Vectors, PIRO via Pixabay]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cattle-decapitation-we-eat-our-young.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Cattle Decapitation remains true to their extreme metal ways on the dark and damning promo single from Terrasite, “We Eat Our Young.”
![Rammstein, Zeit [📷: RAMMSTEIN GBR / Universal Music GmH]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/rammstein-zeit.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ German metal collective Rammstein makes a compelling return with the reflective, thought-provoking single, “Zeit.”
![Iron Maiden, "Stratego" [📷: Brent Faulkner, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay, Sanctuary]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/iron-maiden-stratego.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Iconic heavy metal/hard rock band Iron Maiden continues to compel on “Stratego,” the second single from their 17th LP, Senjutsu.
![Iron Maiden, "The Writing on the Wall" [📷: Sanctuary]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/iron-maiden-the-writing-on-the-wall.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Iconic heavy metal/hard rock band Iron Maiden makes a stellar return on “The Writing on the Wall,” the promo from their 17th LP, Senjutsu.
![ICE NINE KILLS, "Hip to Be Scared" [📷: Fearless]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ice-nine-kills-hip-to-be-scared-1.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
ICE NINE KILLS serves up impressive musicianship and entertaining, tongue-n-cheek, horror-laden moments on “Hip to Be Scared.”
![Toothless, "Grinner" from Misinformed (EP) [Photo Credit: Toothless]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/toothless-grinner-misinformed-ep.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Chaotic Wilkes-Barre, PA metalcore collective Toothless deliver a heavy dose of aggression on single “Grinner,” featuring Justin Bonitz.
![Sabaton & Apocalyptica, "Angels Calling" [Photo Credit: Nuclear Blast]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/sabaton-angels-calling-nuclear-blast-tmh-track-review.jpg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton taps Finnish symphonic metal band Apocalyptica for an epic remake of the 2006 gem, “Angels Calling.”
![Ozzy Osbourne, "Straight to Hell": The Musical Hype Track Review [Photo Credit: Epic]](https://i0.wp.com/themusicalhype.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ozzy-osbourne-straight-to-hell-epic-tmh-track-review.jpeg?fit=768%2C768&ssl=1)
After issuing “Under the Graveyard” following an extended hiatus, Ozzy Osbourne returns with a 2nd thrilling single, “Straight to Hell.”