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 galloping metalcore, Emerald City alt-punk, nu-dustrial heaviness 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.
Filth Is Eternal – “Stay Melted”
Seattle’s Filth Is Eternal explained this week that their new single, “Stay Melted,” is about how the world we live in is “a total trash fire, to the point where we become lethargic.” Yet while it’s a grind out there, you have to keep your flame alive.
“Stay Melted” is a bit more alt-punk-pounding than some of the group’s crustiest ‘core, but they keep the energy dialed to 11. No flickering flame here. Their forthcoming Impossible World LP could prove to be a pop-melted heater.
Humanity’s Last Breath – “Godhood”
We feel each skin-splitting moment of Humanity’s Last Breath’s “Godhood” single pulsating through us — and it feels divine.
The Swedish outfit’s latest track undulates with low-toned grooves, weird sci-fi screeches and lyrics about transcending untold pain. Their unholy roller arrives just ahead of a European tour with Lorna Shore, and if the subs are set up just right, every single audience member is gonna feel this one tingling deep in their spines.
Moodring – “Masochist Machine”
Hunter Young is definitely working with a theme on his latest long player as Moodring. He formally announced new album death fetish this week with a bruisingly hammered-down nu-dustrial anthem titled “Masochist Machine,” and we’re here to feel the pain, full-force.
The song generally rides a Powerman 5000-ish dance-metal groove, but Young also swerves things towards a more savagely depraved and detuned breakdown that lets him flex feral screams that’d fit within the framework of his other band, PSYCHO-FRAME. Even heavier is its theme of being “used by your own addictions and obsessive compulsions.”
It all makes for more must-hear moodiness from Moodring.
Lamb of God – “Into Oblivion”
“I am the chaos/I am the voice you can’t unhear.”
Randy Blythe almost screeches this as if it were a bad thing, but few things are as comforting in this world to a metalhead as a fresh, furious Lamb of God single.
The Viriginia-made legends return with a steely, mid-paced beatdown full of exquisitely lacerating guitar licks from godhead tandem Willie Adler and Mark Morton. Its chorus is a dark, blossoming earworm. They hardly suppress the aggression in the kick-ass bridge.
We’ll walk straight into oblivion if there’s more of this awaiting us on the other side.
Poison the Well – “Thoroughbreds”
Poison the Well rode into our purview with a preview of their forthcoming PEACE IN PLACE LP, the veteran unit’s first album in nearly 17 years, and it’s crystallized what fans have known for decades: PTW are a hell of a band.
Telecaster-twanged western-isms ricochet off full-speed hardcore beats, while the chorus melody is an engagingly inky enterprise.
Jeffrey Moreira’s reflective screams contemplate friends gone by the wayside, and he struggles over those losses (“How can I move on/And exist within this wreck”). Nevertheless, it sounds like he and the rest of the metalcore wrecking crew have found a bold and heavy path ahead of them.
XCOMM – “Fake ID”
Two truths and a lie about XCOMM’s “Fake ID”: Its raging pace confirms drummer Revel Ian is a card-carrying member of the thrashcore familia, the quintet crushed the cut while opening for the Foo Fighters in L.A. this week and, per the lyrics, still-teenaged vocalist Michael Gatto was born in 2001 (do the math here, folks).
The rest of the song finds the vocalist screaming at a skeptical club bouncer ’til he’s blue in the face (“Lemme in!”). At its core, “Fake ID” is a ripper about how heavy music can and should be enjoyed by people of all ages, and with that we wholeheartedly agree.