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Welcome to Rockville 2027 is going to be huge. While we’ve got a couple of seasons to go before fest organizers once again launch Daytona, Florida’s annual celebration of metal, rock, punk and more, they’ve confirmed a good chunk of the line-up, including headliners  Korn, Bad Omens, Pierce the Veil and blink-182. The folks over at Danny Wimmer Presents officially rolled out the lion’s share of the more than 150 acts hitting five stages at the World Famous Daytona International Speedway

Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen is ready to relax with his goats. The industrial-music titan is sitting at home in California to talk up the politically-charged and pissed-as-ever nature of Hate to Go – Takeout or Delivery, the incisive farewell album from Ministry — their 17th since Jourgensen kicked off his career with the band’s more-synth-pop-flavored With Sympathy album in 1983, when he was still living in Chicago, Illinois. Famously, Jourgensen would ramp up the aggression as

Nu-rockers Sleep Theory are back with their first original song since the spring of 2025. Landing just a couple days ahead of Halloween, their “Giving In” has rightfully been fit with a creepy-crawly new music video. While “Giving In” arrives a few months on from Sleep Theory’s cover-crazed (E)motional (S)upport (C)are (P)ackage EP, the pop-heavy crossover cut is the first actual Sleep Theory tune to drop since the Memphis, Tennessee-made quartet dropped debut album Afterglow last year. Th

Sleep Token turned 10 this year, and Revolver is celebrating with a lavish new special collector’s edition, vinyl and CD box sets, and more.⁠⁠The deluxe magazine commemorates Sleep Token’s first 10 years with deep dives into the band’s 10 most definitive songs — including gorgeous new art pieces by Sleep Token collaborator Alex Tillbrook, inspired by each song and printed on gold-metallic translucent velum inserted pages.⁠⁠As for the vinyl box set, it mark the first time that a

A great album cover strikes an immediate response out of the viewer. And for many heavy acts, the best way to get your attention is to freak you right the fuck out. Since the dawn of metal itself, countless bands have fit their heavy masterpieces with album covers that chill to the bone. Great works of art have featured all kinds of demons, undead headbangers, and some of the goriest displays ever committed to canvas. By that same token, others have gone ultra-realistic, with visions of war a

The dream is real, and Amira Elfeky continues to plug her upcoming and heavily-anticipated debut album, It Was Only a Dream. This time she’s spilling her guts on a nu-dustrial ballad called “I don’t want to fall in love.” The single arrives off the fall announcement of her first full-length, which includes the recent “Breakdown” single. “I don’t want to fall in love” works a throbbing four-on-the-floor rhythm with spectral dayglow synth tones and a mix of shushed and growled lines from Elfeky

Few bands in the heavy-music world can match the ambition and vision of Mastodon. Since 2000, the Atlanta-born quartet have amassed a discography that fuses slow-churning sludge with interstellar prog, adding a good touch of blues boogie and hard-rock swagger into the mix for good measure. The sound that they’ve developed and honed over the course of eight full-lengths (and a raft of EPs) has given them ample room to explore lyrical topics both fantastical and devastatingly personal. Along th

Turns out vocalist Chad Gray has a soft-spot for early Aughts pop classics, as the Mudvayne and Hellyeah vocalist has just surprised the world with a heavy and heartfelt twist on Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful. Better yet, he’s partnered with Revolver to premiere the music video for the cover. Gray explains that he’s been a fan of Aguilera’s 2002 pop power ballad, penned by 4 Non Blondes leader Linda Perry, for years, having quickly latched onto the tune’s themes of “self-acceptance, finding

The stars have aligned: Hum have just revealed they’re going to be playing a bunch of shows in 2027. The Champaign, Illinois-formed post-hardcore quartet confirmed in an Instagram post earlier today (October 27th) that they’ll be hitting the road next year, beginning with a March 3rd stop at the Eastern in Atlanta, Georgia. They’ll be undertaking several short stretches of dates between March and July, the last of which capping July 17th at the Warfield in San Francisco, California. Suppor

Swedish juggernaut Meshuggah are set to celebrate 40 years of djent-pressed heaviness in 2027, having just announced a North American anniversary tour that’ll have them crushing venues with thrash pioneers Testament and death-metal adventurists Blood Incantation. Dubbed the “Forty-Year Anomaly” tour, Meshuggah confirmed the upcoming trek today (October 27th). It launches February 12th at the Coca-Cola Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario. The tour will cross both sides of the U.S./Canada border betwe

TOOL drummer Danny Carey and the Cult’s John Tempesta went Beast Mode for Seattle Seahawks fans last night (October 25th) while leading the team’s Blue Thunder drumline through a percussive jam. The team-up took place at the Emerald City’s Lumen Field, just ahead of the Seahawks’ week 7 match-up against the Kansas City Chiefs. Carey and Tempesta were seated side-by-side, and they thwacked matching kits flocked with the Blue Thunder squad’s bird-and-bolt-emblazoned logo. The rest of Blue Thund

Turnstile made memories over the weekend while staging their benefit show by the Washington Monument, with the much-loved hardcore breakouts bringing reportedly 60,000 hardcore fans to the capital for a shared cause. The Baltimore quintet had announced the show at Washington, D.C.’s National Mall earlier this month, noting that it would be free to attend but was likewise set to raise funds for humanitarian efforts in Palestine, Sudan, and Lebanon. All proceeds would be donated to Human Concer

Darkest Hour aren’t giving up the fight. It’s early October when Revolver reaches guitarist Mike Schleibaum, who co-founded the Washington, D.C. melodeath quintet in the mid-Nineties with vocalist John Henry back when they were still teenagers. 30 years, 10 full-lengths and countless global tours later, they’re on the precipice of delivering Suffer Divine, a frankly divine assault of skin-blistering beats, razor-wired melodies and impeccable shred. Though Darkest Hour spent 2025 celebratin

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 hellacious deathcore, epic trad metal, industrialized trap metal 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.

Dethklok’s 20 years of hilariously brutal death-metal domination is being celebrated in a new box-set release that brings together new color-vinyl pressings of all four Dethalbums and more, a huggable plushie of guitarist Toki Wartooth’s precious Deaddy Bear. The Revolver-exclusive Two Decades of Deth Deluxe LP Book package features a remixed and remastered pressing of 2007’s The Dethalbum — “upgraded into a weapon of mass destruction” — as well as new pressings of 2009’s Dethalbum II, 2012’s

Boston hardcore fun-lovers Haywire recently released their I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye album, and quite tellingly the band have now revealed that they’ll be saying hello to a hell of a lot of people in 2027, having just fleshed out their world tour to include a fresh batch of North American stops. All told, Haywire’s claim to be “hardcore’s hardest-working band” is being backed up by the fact that their “I DON’T WANNA SAY GOODBYE TOUR” rolls out as 80-plus shows between now and next spring.

Coming off the surprise launch of Deafheaven’s exquisitely savage At Work in the Fields of the Bomb EP, the blackgaze phenoms have announced a 2027 stretch of tour dates with friends and collaborators Interpol. News of the tag-team dates between the metal and post-punk factions was announced earlier today (October 22nd), and it all begins March 16th at New Orleans, Louisiana’s Saenger Theatre. All told, it’s a eight-date run that concludes March 27th at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, Ne

Just a week left before the release of Queens of the Stone Age’s Perfecth new album, the desert-rock mainstays have announced they’ll be supporting the album with a North American arena tour in 2027. The group have a number of overseas shows to get them through 2026, and have now confirmed that they’ll be launching a U.S. soil arena tour at San Diego, California’s Viejas Arena on May 1st. The 16-show run also features direct support from quiet-loud-quiet indie-rock lifers Pixies, plus opening

After slow-dripping a few lineup teases throughout the month over socials, Sonic Temple organizers have now revealed the full shebang — and next year’s event features headlining sets from Iron Maiden, Korn, blink-182 and Falling in Reverse. Fest organizers confirmed that the Ohio’s premiere heavy music event will once again be brining key players from the worlds of rock, metal, hardcore, punk, rap and more to the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus. The four-day, five-stager will showcase nearl

Straight edge has been a part of hardcore since the dawn of the genre itself. Conceived as a punk, personalized manifesto by Minor Threat vocalist Ian MacKaye, and disseminated in a raging 45-second song called “Straight Edge,” the subculture-within-a-subculture suggested that abstaining from smoking, drinking and doing drugs was a way to stay razor-sharp and aware of the chaos around you. That idea soon spread around to other pockets of the U.S. hardcore scene, and would eventually go wor