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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 death-metal demo upgrades, chilly djent ballads, paparazzi-punching hard 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.

Black-metal royals Dimmu Borgir have slithered out of the shadows to give us another look at their upcoming Grand Serpent Rising. The Norwegian outfit’s latest illuminating slice of extremity is called “As Seen in the Unseen.” The seven-minute single sports an extended intro of calm-watered, yet ominously anticipatory guitar tones.  Sure enough, Dimmu eventually break the dam with bleak-blasted fury and symphonic grandeur. Vocalist Shagroth shrieks of arcane texts and transformative experienc

Taylor Momsen is searching for salvation in the latest single from the Pretty Reckless, the doomily soul-searching title track to the band’s upcoming Dear God. The latest album preview — following previous teases “For I Am Death,” “When I Wake Up” and “Love Me” — takes on dark and crunchy textures, presenting itself as a lean, hard-bluesing epic full of gloom-peggiated guitar work. Above all that, Momsen invokes raspy, reflective, melodic, from-the-source pleas to an unknown power while

After burning it up with their “Kerosene” single in March, hard rock sister trio the Warning have delivered a spicy, scream-hammered follow-up in the form of their latest track, “EGO.” The song — the Warning’s third of the year following “Kerosene” and their “Love to be Loved” team up with Carín León — is sung entirely in Spanish, and press materials describe it as “a bold statement of self-possession and resilience.” Above staccato, effects-warped guitars and a smooth-but-stomping rhythm

Mötley Crüe icon Tommy Lee released Tommyland Rides Again today (May 22nd), a newly refreshed and reimagined version of his 2005 solo album, Tommyland: The Ride. The release was remixed by Lee and Smiley Sean at Lee’s Dolby Atmos-certified studio and is now available on digital streaming platforms for the first time, including in Dolby Atmos format. The updated edition also includes a new bonus track, “Stupid World,” featuring Chad Tepper. A former pro skateboarder turned alt-rock art

Los Angeles-based post-hardcore quintet Quiet Fear have teamed up with Revolver to premiere their second single, “Sombras.” Listen below. Rooted in ’90s-inspired screamo, the song showcases atmospheric restraint, perceptive lyrics and a churning melody. According to the band, it “speaks about a society that sees pain and chooses to ignore it.” Along with previous explosive single “Retén,” “Sombras” appears on Quiet Fear’s upcoming sophomore album, La Tierra Arriba / El Abismo Abajo,

Thornhill had a massive 2025, and the momentum is only building through 2026 so far. Last year, the Australian alt-metal rising stars released an acclaimed new album, BODIES, toured the U.S. as direct support for Sleep Token, and went viral with a cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” amid many career-defining milestones. Now, the band is in the homestretch of a triumphant North American headline tour — presented by Revolver — that serves as something of a victory lap. Named for

Les Claypool brought all kinds of treasure to the stage last night (May 20th) during the tour opener of his “Claypool Gold” tour, a rotating psych-and-funk showcase from his bands Primus, the Claypool Lennon Delirium and the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. As previously reported, the tour is being staged similarly to the 2024 and 2025 Sessanta shows that Primus had undertaken with A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, where the bands would take turns performing sets before deliveri

PRESIDENT began teasing their new chapter earlier this year, and it will culminate later this summer in the release of the mysterious, masked alt-metal outfit’s debut album: Blood of Your Empire. They previewed the heavily anticipated full-length statement today (May 21st) with their third single of 2026: “DOOM LOOP.”The song, which follows February’s “Angel Wings” and the March-delivered “Mercy,” is described by the Prez in a statement as being about “the strange tragedy of time — how we spend

Iconic heavy shoegaze faves Hum returned to the stage last night (May 15th) for the first time since 2019, while headlining the Brooklyn, New York edition of this year’s Slide Away fest. The performance took place during the first of two nights at the Brooklyn Paramount, and the sold-out event also featured opening sets from Nothing, Chapterhouse, loveliescrushing, Bleary Eyed and Frankie Rose. The 12-song headlining set marked Hum’s first live appearance since they played

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 thrash, nu-gaze, djent 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. (fun

Primus have been panning for gold ahead of their upcoming package tour with the Claypool Lennon Delirium and the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, and it turns out they found themselves A Handful of Nuggs — enough for the alt-funk greats to collect as an EP of the same name. The “Claypool Gold” tour — starring three bands featuring Primus’ founding bass wiz, Les Claypool — begins next week, and Primus are promoting both the trip and the EP by debuting a screwy string-slapper called

After giving new single “Who Will You Follow” its live debut at Sick New World last month, Evanescence have now delivered a music video for the incandescent, yet brooding rock anthem. We’d previously saluted the song, from the band’s forthcoming Sanctuary LP, for the way it ebb-and-flows “between serene piano motifs and bruised-orange nu-rock riff-outs,” as well as the way Lee contorts herself from “gently-whispered musings towards a skies-splitting vibrato as she reflects on the ‘crack in th

Beartooth are in the throes of “Pure Ecstasy.” Coming off the reflective “Free” single from earlier this year, Caleb Shomo and the rest of the metalcore act have teamed with Periphery guitarist Misha Mansoor and producer Jordan Fish to premiere a track called “Pure Ecstasy,” which previews an upcoming full-length of the same name. The intro delivers down-and-dirty low-string chugs as Shomo intensely forewarns of an upcoming explosive personal epiphany (“Waking the demon I was destined to b

It’s finally happening — Anthrax have formally announced Cursum Perficio, their first album since 2016. To celebrate, the East Coast faction of the Big 4 have unleashed an introductory thrash attack called “It’s for the Kids.” Anthrax had both been teasing and working on the release for a number of years, but really locked into their new era over the past week after delivering a studio vid of guitarist Scott Ian wildly riffin’ on a V-shape, and then a simple socials post that read: “It’s been

After saluting their back catalogue in 2025 with a couple of volumes of re-recorded hits, Five Finger Death Punch are storming their way towards their next LP. The Vegas-based metal vets have just unveiled “Eye of the Storm,” their first single behind an impending full-length.As previously reported, 5FDP posted a bunch of studio pics online at the end of 2025, and promised that their 2026 “will be huge.”   A press release now explains that the band had been working on upwards of 30 songs in t

Madball are back and ready to reclaim the crown. The hardcore lifers have announced a tenth full-length is on the way, and they’re promoting the upcoming Not Your Kingdom with an old school-reflective anthem called “Rebel Kids.” A press release explains that the song arrives as part of the band’s “most personal release to date,” with the 14-song collection said to be offering “a raw look into Freddy Cricien’s perspective on the current state of the world and the human condition.” With “Reb

Something wicked this way comes — and it turns out it’s the latest single from Breaking Benjamin. While details remain pending on the next full-length release from Breaking Benjamin, the long-running hard-rockers have unleashed another preview, which they call “Something Wicked.” The track is their first in two years, following 2024’s “Awaken,” and they premiered the song live at last weekend’s Welcome to Rockville festival.The new tune begins with dramatic synth-phonics before barrelin

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 nu-core, psychedelic doom, deathcore 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. (func

Texas death-metal die-hards Frozen Soul are set to crush, kill and destroy with the heavy force of their newly-released third full-length, No Place of Warmth. The veteran faction delivered a series of ice-veined singles after announcing the album earlier in 2026, teasing the masses with a mix of jack-hammered protest songs, bitter-wind death-doom, and at least one video spinning out sounds with the help of a ghoulish bone harp. Thematically, many of the cuts touch on mortality, drawing on per