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In an age of deepfakes and digital lies, Amy Lee and Evanescence are fighting for something real. As her band stars on the cover of Revolver’s new Summer 2026 issue, Lee dives into the making of the alt-metal icons’ staggering Sanctuary album — detailing her, the group and their fandom’s search for artistic honesty in the age of AI slop. There are two versions of this Summer’s Evanescence cover: a standard edition featuring the full band, and a collector’s edition sporting an alterna

Though Mastodon are currently pushing towards the release of a new album, co-founders Bill Kelliher, Brann Dailor and Troy Sanders have taken some time to address the passing of the band’s former guitarist-vocalist Brent Hinds. A new, behind-the-scenes mini-documentary called The Mastodon in the Room has been released to highlight the life of their friend, address the challenges of their relationship and honor his memory. The 35-minute short film begins with a clip from Mastodon’s summe

Following drummer Jay Weinberg’s crushing pair of singles with members of Deafheaven and NOWHERE2RUN, the former Slipknot skinsman has unveiled a soft-and-gauzy shoegaze collab with Canadian outfit Softcult. Weinberg’s third song for his developing singles series is called “Drown Fountain,” and it build itself up through a hypnagogic tapestry of distortion-blown, yet heavenly guitar strums. He gently whispers his lines alongside Softcult’s Mercedes Arn-Horn — who he noted in an Instagra

German metal vets Accept are breaking the chains of bondage with the help of their friends. For the latest preview of Teutonic Titans 1976-2026, a collection of re-recorded heavy hits, they tapped Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, Scorpions guitarist Matthias Jabs and Pantera bassist Rex Brown to assist with eternal metal anthem “Balls to the Wall.” As previously reported, the new album was put together by longtime Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and current vocalist Mark Tornillo.

Viking-metal mainstays Amon Amarth have entered their unplugged stage. Today (July 8th), and for the first time ever, the Swedish quintet delivered a rustic and entirely acoustically-strummed anthem that they call “Upphaf.” The song chimes into focus with acoustic strums and propulsive, elemental percussion. Above all that, frontman Johan Hegg unearths a craggy, legend-casting croak about “old tales of men I recall from long ago,” including “giants of yore who gave me bread in the days gone b

The United States of America just celebrated its 250th birthday. A major milestone, for sure, but what’s even wilder to consider is that just over a fifth of the country’s history has been defined, in part, by the sound of metal. From sea-to-shining-sea, the U.S. has produced innumerable artists that have thrown heavy-music fans into a headbanging frenzy for decades. From the thrash trailblazers, to the original gods of hardcore, to the grunge-era greats, to the New Wave of American Heavy Met

Members of Green Day, Rancid, blink-182 and more will join together for an upcoming tribute concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of Ramones’ self-titled debut album. The upcoming performance at Los Angeles, California’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery will unite late-era Ramones bassist CJ Ramone with Green Day vocalist-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, Rancid vocalist-guitarist Tim Armstrong, blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and “special guests.” They’ll be performing as Cretin Family, a Ramon

NYHC originators Agnostic Front and Baltimore rock, pop and hardcore fusionists Angel Du$t have announced that they’re teaming up for a multi-generational headline run this fall. The East Coast trip kicks off September 27th at Richmond, Virginia’s Canal Club, and finds the two hardcore bands hitting 10 clubs together. Supporting them on these dates will be Florida-made ragers STEP 2 THIS. The headliners have also booked this trip around Turnstile’s next leg of “NEVER ENOUGH” tour dates, wh

The founders of Ferret Music — the hardcore label that delivered early releases from Killswitch Engage, Converge, Every Time I Die, Zao and more — are relaunching the imprint in 2026 and have announced both a run of upcoming represses and the signing of two new acts: BORE and Wounded Touch. The news arrives from founder Carl Severson — also of New Jersey metalcore outfit Nora — who confirmed Ferret’s upcoming plans. He’d founded the imprint in the Nineties, and filled their catalogue releases

We couldn’t have predicted this one: Quicksand’s latest preview from their forthcoming Bring On the Psychics album is a “diss track” targeting the so-called cool guys in the hardcore scene. Aptly dubbed “Cool Guy,” the new song is explained in a press release to be “an OG HC diss track” like Minor Threat’s “Small Man, Big Mouth” or Negative Approach’s “Hypocrite” (we’d add guitarist Walter Schreifels “Big Mouth” track with Gorilla Biscuits as another possible point of reference, but we digres

Doom-metal dragonauts Sleep are back but they look a little different. Guitarist Matt Pike, also of High on Fire, is no longer in the band, leaving vocalist-bassist Al Cisneros as the sole remaining OG member. Replacing Pike in Sleep’s current lineup is Bubba Dupree, of the seminal D.C. hardcore band Void, while the Melvins’ very busy Dale Crover takes over drum duties.⁠ Thusly reconfigured, the stoner-rock legends just surprise-released a new single, “Have Spacesuit Will

Sleep Theory have a thing for turn-of-the-century boy bands, we’ve known this since the band started posting vids of themselves harmonizing Backstreet Boys songs. Today (June 18th), they’re bringing their *NSYNC stanning into the limelight with a rock-heavy revamp of that group’s “Bye Bye Bye.” The new cover is a reasonably faithful take on the chart-smashing No Strings Attached single, though Sleep Theory surge triplet-chugged and double-kicked metal moments into the pop song. Vocalist Culle

Following Faith No More‘s gigantically jaw-dropping tour teaser yesterday (June 16th), the alt-metal band’s bassist, Billy Gould, has gone on record confirming that they’ll be back on the road in the near future. “Yeah, we’re gonna do it. We’re gonna play,” he confessed in a new interview with Rock Talk’s Jadranka Jankovic Nesic, adding that part of the reason behind mounting another reunion tour was that they wanted to do it while they were still able to pull it off, physically. “Yo

Poppy is popping off hard with members of Knocked Loose and House of Protection in the new video for “Dying to Forget,” a red-eyed raging metalcore explosion from the artist’s recent Empty Hands album. The new video had been teased earlier in the month through a photo of Poppy posing in a warehouse alongside Knocked Loose guitarist Isaac Hale and House of Protection’s Stephen Harrison (both musicians have co-writing credits on the song), as well as masked members of Poppy’s band. Today (Ju

Brand of Sacrifice are back with a pair of hard-hitting tracks, marking the Canadian deathcore menaces’ first material since 2023. The band launched their next era today (June 17th) by unveiling a visualizer for new song “Seeing Red,” described in a press release as concerning “the desperate search for agency when everything feels unstable.” And, indeed, the single shakes the earth to its core with a mutli-pivoted arrangement of hammer blasts, glacial sub-drops and hellacious groove. Betw

The gods of heavy have blessed music fans thus far into 2026. We’re only just halfway through the year, but it’s already shaping up to be another golden time for metal — one that’s provided iconic farewells and surprise hellos, bands doubling their fun with a pair of blistering LPs, and the announcement of many mega-anticipated releases.   To highlight what’s come through the pipeline to date, we asked our readers to vote for the records that have had them banging their heads the most

We’ve got a dirty black summer ahead of us, and Glenn Danzig is celebrating that fact by announcing a late-season headline tour that’ll have him supported by Satanic doo-woppers Twin Temple, daemon-spawned shredders Burning Witches and more. Danzig’s eponymous metal band revealed plans to hit the road this September, with a seven-show tour leg starting at San Antonio, Texas’ Boeing at Tech Port venue on the 11th. The trip includes six headline performances, with support from Twin Temple, Burn

Motionless in White have poured out more “Sweat and Blood” in the lead-up to their next album, Decades. Following the recent “Playing God” collab with Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, the metalcore mainstays have delivered a melodic, mournful team-up with singer-songwriter Skylar Grey called “R.I.P.”   The new song is described in a press release as evoking “the power of a lover’s lament inscribed on a headstone,” and begins with a dramatic piano intro and a vocal turn from guest singer Grey. C

Here at Revolver, we’re always on the hunt for new songs to bang our heads to — indeed, it’s a big part of our jobs. With that in mind, here are the tracks released this week in deathcore, black metal, goth rock and more that have been on heavy rotation at Revolver HQ. For your listening pleasure, we’ve also compiled the songs in an ever-evolving Spotify playlist.

After announcing the name of their new Everything’s Falling album earlier in the week, hard rocking sister act the Warning have now unveiled its third single, “Ritual.” The band had previously teased the song through a series of socials posts that found the sisters Villareal (guitarist Dany, drummer Pau and bassist Ale) sporting angel wings, holding ceremonial daggers and surrounded by group of white-robed worshippers. Now, we see know the full, fantastical context of the video, as well as