6 best new songs right now: 4/4/25 11:44 AM (5 hours ago)
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 depressive djent-pop, beastly Kawaii-metal, frenetic nu-core 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.
Static Dress – “face.”
A persistently melting clock possibly pulled from Dali’s personal collection. An exhibit of expressionless plastic masks. A drinking bird toy perpetually headbanging to the sounds of Static Dress. These are just some of the semi-random-but-possibly-symbolic pieces of ephemera scattered throughout the music video for “face.,” a somewhat cryptic clip presented across vibrantly retina-burning backdrops of red and blue.
Static Dress’ new single is a touch more direct, harnessing the gain-surged and heavy-hearted emo-ishness of an early Thursday cut (perhaps even Easter Egging this with a lyric about a love playing out like a “car crash”).
Buckle up, lest you’re willing to burst upon impact.
Volbeat – “In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan’s Spawn in a Dying World of Doom”
Before we get into the sound of Volbeat’s new single, can we just take a beat to appreciate how deliciously gonzo that song title is?
Seemingly branded by a pentagram-shaped iron, and tailor-made to raise your horns to, the Danish outfit’s hellbilly jamboree about the birth of the spawn of Satan is a damned entertaining barnburner possessed by western jangling, double-barreled metal chugging and Michael Poulsen’s mock-Man-in-Black vibrato (“I walk the line/I walk the night”).
Fit with a music video full of ditch-digging scenes, skull-adorning ceremonies and the ensuing scorched-earth results, the song only becomes more engagingly apocalyptic as it goes on.
Tallah – “What we know”
It’s time to explore vast alien worlds with Tallah.
“What we know” is the nu-core outfit’s wildly energetic first single from their upcoming Primeval: Obsession // Detachment, a concept record reportedly about a pair of space travelers and their morals-challenging experience on an alien planet. As for the song, it hurtles through the cosmos while pinging off an asteroid field of Mudvayne-esque bass zaniness, Korn-leaning unease and a back-to-back solo section that zooms from effects-broken screechiness towards a hot-blooded shredfest.
We’re caught in a sonic spiral that’s twirling us down, but Tallah seemed primed to stick the landing.
BABYMETAL and Poppy – “from me to u”
“Let’s go!”
BABYMETAL’s first official single behind their upcoming and collab-heavy Metal Forth album was delivered from them to us this week, and it’s a riotous preview of what’s to come. From its glitchy breakbeats, to its monstrously low-slung melodies, to the beast-from-within guest spot from Poppy, and up into the absurdly cheerful last-minute key change, “from me to u” is a sensory overload that will not rest ‘til we’re breathless.
The music video, which finds Poppy transforming into a rage-intensified CGI demon wreaking havoc around BABYMETAL’s choreography routine, is likewise a stunner.
Bleeding From Within – “Violent Nature”
“We’re all just dying to feel something real.”
Bleed From Within vocalist Scott Kennedy nails it with this desperately howled-out admission on the first track of his band’s just-released ZENITH LP. And truth be told, it’s done over one of the rawest and most tangibly domineering metal cuts we’ve heard this week.
While Kennedy casts himself and some anonymous cohorts as “agents of chaos” in this reality-questioning cut, Bleed From Within deliver a brutally dialed-in, mercury-spurting performance on this in-the-red ass-whipper. No illusion, here — just honest-to-goodness metalcore severity of the highest order.
Sleep Token – “Caramel”
It does not sound like all is goin’ good in the garden for Vessel these days.
Sure, Sleep Token’s new “Caramel” initially has him singing all lovely-like atop the sounds of a tranquil brass cylinder melody and a feel-good Latin rhythm, but Vessel is also pouring out his soul with each syllable. He seems to be weighing in on the “beautiful nightmare” of fame, which includes hot gossip cycles and people forever trying to dox him and his semi-anonymous masked cohorts (“It’s getting harder even just to exhale”). That we’re pondering this out loud can’t be helping his anxieties, either.
In classic Sleep Token fashion, “Caramel” eventually rises up towards a doom-dirging djent sesh full of tortured-soul screaming. It all makes for a nakedly heavy and heartbreaking offering from Sleep Token — and a bittersweet taste of their hotly anticipated new album, Even in Arcadia.
Hear BABYMETAL and POPPY team on delirious new collab “from me to u” 6:01 AM (11 hours ago)
Hot on the heels of BABYMETAL’s announcement that they have a star-studded new album called Metal Forth coming our way later this spring, the Kawaii-metal trio have unleashed the record’s fiery and Poppy-assisted leadoff track, “from me to u.”
The new cut rams quick into its energized pace, with fast-chugged riffage and diamond-resplendent synth sounds supporting a round of BABYMETAL-sung lines about succumbing to fears and running for cover. Then Poppy hops in for a halftime section about pushing yourself past those anxieties (“Stand up and make your move”).
The song ultimately slams together BABYMETAL’s patented mix of pop and metal — flexing seriously chunked-up grooves, while likewise capping with wide-smiling key change in the finale. The band summed it all up in a statement, noting of “from me to u”: “Kawaii is sprinkled throughout the intense sound!”
As for the vid, it finds the members of BABYMETAL pulling off choreographed moves within a neon-futuristic cityscape, and later during an underwater side quest. Just as the Slayer-esque divebombs start flying on the heavy-as-hell breakdown, we see Poppy transform into a demonic CGI beast, Madam Mim-style.
You can check it all out up above.
As previously noted, the Poppy feature is but one of many guest spots on the forthcoming Metal Forth. The record features last year’s “RATATATA” single with Electric Callboy, and likewise includes new tunes that pair BABYMETAL with the likes of Slaughter to Prevail, Polyphia, Spiritbox, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, and Bloodywood.
The new album drops June 13th via Capitol Records, the same day BABYMETAL launch their North American trek with support acts Black Veil Brides, Jinjer and Bloodywood.
You’ll find more tour details here, and you can order Metal Forth on both vinyl and CD at Revolver’s shop.
Hear VOLBEAT hail Satan’s spawn on barn-burning new song 6:00 AM (11 hours ago)
A bad moon’s rising, but that seems like a good omen for Volbeat fans. You see, after serving up a monstrous first taste of their impending God of Angel’s Trust LP last month, the rockabilly-metal maniacs have now returned with an epically titled and devilishly delightful follow-up barnburner called “In the Barn of the Goat Giving Birth to Satan’s Spawn in a Dying World of Doom.”
The tune plays out something like a Satanic Hee-Haw jamboree, with Volbeat leaning into a hickory-scented juke joint jangle, ahead of pushing their amps to the max through a more metallic swing, which culminates in a shreddin’ finale.
Throughout, bandleader Michael Poulsen delivers a theatrically vibrato-wagglin’ vocal performance about a hell of a party befalling a farm property one night.
“It’s about the outcasts and fallen angels of God — all the angels that were cast out of Heaven. And I’m being told to collect them in this big wagon and bring them to a barn,” he explains in a statement
Poulsen continued: “There’s a ritual going on where the fallen angels are being sacrificed to Satan’s spawn to create soldiers for a new dark kingdom. So, instead of inviting my lady out to go to the cinema, I say, ‘I have something better. You have to see what’s going on in this barn… we’ve been invited to see the birth of Satan’s spawn and watch the world go down. How about that?”
A music video for the tune leans into a GOAT’d visual aesthetic, and you can see the gleefully ritualistic display up above.
As previously reported, Volbeat’s next album is out June 6th, and the band begin a North American tour in Vancouver, BC with Three Days Grace the next day (June 7th).
Pre-orders for Volbeat’s God of Angel’s Trust on exclusive oxblood-colored vinyl, limited to 1,000, are available now in Revolver’s shop.
Hear trap-metal upstart KILL DYLL go grunge on new song “THE COST” 5:59 AM (11 hours ago)
Known for his nightmarish masks, bass-heavy beats and menacing scream-rapping, Kill Dyll kicked off a new era earlier this year with the single “START TO BLEED,” which pulled element of Nineties shoegaze into his signature trap-metal attack. Today (April 4th), he’s back with a follow-up song that also leans into the sound of the grunge era.
Titled “THE COST,” the latest cut mixes dreary alt-rock guitar with raw vocals and brooding lyrics, suggesting that Kill Dyll may be moving away from his decided aggro roots and embracing a more introspective, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal-esque direction.
Stream the new single above via YouTube.
Hear SLEEP TOKEN’s bittersweet new stunner “Caramel” 3 Apr 8:00 PM (21 hours ago)
Well, here’s a sweet treat to take you through the weekend: Sleep Token’s latest offering.
Following the recent reveal of “Emergence,” the first internet-breaking single from the alt-metal band’s upcoming Even in Arcadia album, the mysterious masked band have now come through with a second taste of their forthcoming release, “Caramel.”
The new single had been teased over socials earlier in the week, with a short, CGI-driven clip finding the same flamingo from the “Emergence” teaser — which Sleep Token fans have now taken to calling “Jerry” — strutting his stuff inside a mansion, as some ambient piano tinkling plays in the background.
Now, of course, we get the full scope of Sleep Token’s “Caramel,” a track that pits the group’s characteristically genre-defying instrumentation against the ever-expressive vocals of lead ritualist Vessel.
You can check out the song for yourself up above.
As previously reported, Even in Arcadia is out May 9th via RCA Records. While Revolver’s exclusive, limited-edition vinyl pressing of the album on “Glass of Port” vinyl variant immediately sold out, you can currently pre-order copies on CD and standard black wax in our shop.
See PRIMUS’ new drummer audition for the job with help from MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN 3 Apr 11:31 AM (yesterday, 11:31 am)
Seven episodes into Primus’ ongoing Interstellar Drum Derby YouTube series, we finally get to see the audition that sealed current drummer John Hoffman’s place in the funk-rock eccentrics’ current line-up. Better yet, we also see TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan play towel boy for the day during the jam sesh.
As previously reported, Hoffman beat out more than 6,100 applicants to become Primus’ drummer, following longtime skinsman Tim “Herb” Alexander’s departure from the group last fall. When we’re first introduced to Hoffman in the episode, the Shreveport, Louisiana-based percussionist details his joy at having seen an email response from Primus bassist-vocalist Les Claypool in his inbox, which invited him to come jam. It’s a moment that he says teared up him up plenty.
As the band get to know Hoffman, they grill him on how best to perform a sick fill in “Southbound Pachyderm,” which he beatboxes to great effect. Hoffman discusses his “retro-nerd” interests when he’s not behind the kit. Then they hit improv jams, sailed some cheesy seas with a run-through of “Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers,” frizzle fried their way through “Groundhog’s Day” and just generally got on super well.
Playing along with Primus worked up a sweat for Hoffman, but thankfully Keenan was in the group’s rehearsal room to pass off a hand towel for the drummer to dab himself off with. Hoffman had previously written on Instagram that between the rehearsal and Keenan’s unexpected cameo, this had “been one of the most incredible days of [his] life.”
You can check out the episode — in which Claypool and guitarist Larry “Ler” LaLonde describe their new drummer as an intuitive, dynamic player who “got some good shit going” — up above.
As previously reported, the now Hoffman-sporting Primus lineup are set to head out on their “Onward & Upward” headlining tour this summer, though they’ll have to hit a round of “Sessanta 2.0” tour dates alongside Puscifer and A Perfect Circle first.
You’ll find all of Primus’ upcoming dates here.
$UICIDEBOY$ announce 2025 Grey Day tour with BONES, JOEYY and more 3 Apr 9:00 AM (yesterday, 9:00 am)
Grey Days are back again. By which, of course, we mean that NOLA rap-punk duo $uicideboy$ have just announced their next run of “Grey Day” tour dates for 2025.
Ruby da Cherry and $crim unveiled the latest edition of their annual road show today (April 3rd), revealing that a 44-date North American run is due to kick off later this summer.
The trip begins August 5th at West Palm Beach, Florida’s iTHINK Financial Amphiteatre, and it’ll find $uicideboy$ hitting venues on both coasts and both sides of the U.S. border before wrapping things up October 11th with a hometown bash at New Orleans, Louisiana’s Smoothie King Center.
In addition to the boy$, the shows will feature opening sets from Canadian rapper Night Lovell and Atlanta G*59 alum Germ the whole way through, while BONES, Joeyy and Chetta are set to appear on select stops.
You’ll find the full break down of this year’s Grey Day tour down below. Pre-sales go live next Tuesday (April 8th) at 10 a.m. local time, while general tickets sales begin the next day.
$uicideboy$ last full-length release was 2024’s NEW WORLD DEPRESSION.
$uicideboy$ “Grey Day” tour dates 2025:
8/5 West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre ^!
8/6 Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater ^!
8/8 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheater ^!
8/9 Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena ^!
8/12 Maryland Heights, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ^!
8/13 Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center ^!
8/15 Somerset, WI – Somerset Amphitheater ^!
8/16 Milwaukee, WI – American Family Insurance Amphitheater ^!
8/17 Tinley Park, IL – Credit 1 Union Amphitheater ^!
8/19 Denver, CO – Ball Arena ^
8/22 Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena ^
8/23 Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre ^
8/24 Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheatre ^
8/26 Ridgefield, WA – Cascades Amphitheater ^
8/27 Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheater ^
8/29 Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena ^
9/2 Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre #!
9/3 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre #!
9/5 Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium #!
9/6 Chula Vista, CA – North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre #!
9/8 Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre #!
9/10 Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater #!
9/12 Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater #!
9/13 Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion #!
9/14 Tulsa, OK – BOK Center #!
9/16 Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre #!
9/17 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center #!
9/19 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live #!
9/20 Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake #!
9/21 Louisville, KY – Louder than Life #!
9/23 Hartford, CT – The Xfinity Theatre #!
9/24 Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center #!
9/26 Montreal, QC – Bell Centre #!
9/27 Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage #!
9/28 Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater #!
9/30 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center #!
10/1 Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion #!
10/3 Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater #!
10/4 Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater #!
10/5 Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park #!
10/7 Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion #!
10/8 Simpsonville, SC – CCNB Amphitheatre #!
10/10 Houston, TX – Toyota Center ^
10/11 New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center ^
^ with Joeyy, Night Lovell, Germ
# with Chetta, Night Lovell, Germ
! with BONES
Hear SLEEP THEORY battle betrayal on battering new song “III” 3 Apr 6:26 AM (yesterday, 6:26 am)
It’ll be about a month before we can revel in the Afterglow of Sleep Theory’s much-anticipated debut album of the same name, though the Memphis, Tennessee quartet are doing us a solid by giving us another pre-release preview. This time, they’ve twisted up a tense but melodic nu-rock anthem called “III”.
The new track goes for the throat from the jump, with both vocalist Cullen Moore and guitarist Daniel Pruitt trading off hard-howled moments atop a super chewy and detuned rock riff. The song mixes those moments with a yearning, synth-assisted chorus and a dirt-kicking doom-mosh in the bridge.
A press release adds that the song is themed around betrayal, while Moore sings in the chorus that tragedy and hardship is often compounded and served up in “threes.”
“It’s that gut-wrenching feeling when someone you trusted completely lets you down,” Moore adds of the track in a statement. “The song dives into that pain, but it’s also about facing the truth, even when it hurts and realizing not everyone is who they say they are.”
He adds: “I want people to really think about who they let into their lives. Not everyone deserves your trust, and sometimes, those closest to you can do the most damage.”
The video, meanwhile, finds Sleep Theory rocking out in the eye of the storm. You’ll find them reckoning with a mean-lookin’ twister up above.
As previously reported, Sleep Theory’s forthcoming Afterglow was produced by David Cowell, and features previously issued singles “Static,” “Stuck in My Head” and “Paralyzed,” as well as re-recorded versions of “Fallout” and “Numb,” which had both appeared on the band’s breakthrough 2023 EP, Paper Hearts.
The album is out May 16th via Epitaph, and shortly thereafter Sleep Theory kick off their first major headline tour. You’ll find their U.S. tour schedule here.
GODSMACK split with TONY ROMBOLA and SHANNON LARKIN 2 Apr 1:31 PM (2 days ago)
If you’d caught one of nu-metal veterans Godsmack’s recent shows on their spring European tour, you probably noticed that guitarist Tony Rombola and drummer Shannon Larkin haven’t been seen onstage with the rest of the group. That’s because, as it’s now been officially confirmed, both recently quit the band.
Following some semi-cryptic murmurings and since deleted Facebook posts, Godsmack delivered a statement today (April 2nd) confirming that Rombola and Larkin have retired from the band “permanently, on good terms.”
There’s no drama to behold, as Godsmack wrote that the split was amicable, and came down to the fact that the guitarist and drummer desired “to live a more simple and quiet life away from touring.”
“This decision was not made lightly. Tony and Shannon have been such a big part of our history, bringing their unique talents, creativity and passion that have shaped our music and our message,” the band added. “Together, we have experienced countless, unforgettable moments and heartfelt interactions with fans like you around the world. We are immensely grateful for every memory we’ve created together.”
Remaining vocalist-guitarist Sully Erna and bassist Robbie Merrill plan to continue playing shows as Godsmack, and while they have not yet decided upon full-time replacements for Rombola and Larkin, the current tour finds them joined by Evanescence drummer Will Hunt and Dorothy guitarist Sam Koltun.
You’ll find Godsmack’s full statement down below.
Previously, in a now-deleted Facebook video, Larkin had revealed he and Rombola exited the group last year because they didn’t feel up to touring anymore.
“We did quit the band last year, after lots of talking to Sully and Robbie. And they understood that we didn’t wanna tour anymore — that’s the reason — and we understood that they wanted to tour. And so we understood each other. And in the end, Godsmack’s out there touring and we are happily here living our lives.”
Godsmack’s European tour continues tonight (April 2nd) at Munich, Germany’s Zenith venue. You’ll find all of their upcoming dates here.
— Godsmack (@godsmack) April 2, 2025