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 post-hardcore, folk metal, blackened death 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.
Poppy – “the center’s falling out”
“I watch you suffer but do nothing.”
What might be wildest within “the center’s falling out” — the ragingly speed-blazed metallic centerpiece of Poppy’s new Negative Spaces album — is that the most chilling part of the song isn’t the lung-pumpin’ shriekfest the artist sticks to for most of the runtime, but rather a menacingly-whispered promise ahead of a noise-jacked breakdown.
Either way, the track is a stunner that also frantically genre-mashes a firestartin’ breakbeat with modern hardcore ferocity.
Superheaven – “Long Gone”
Though “Long Gone” is kind of a funny title for Superheaven’s first new song in nine years, what’s most important is that the cult post-hardcore heavies are back in fine fucking form. “Long Gone” is an immaculately heart-harrowed tune that cranks the fuzz pedals up to 12, unfurls hard-crushed beats at the most glacial of paces, and hits big with its hazy yet hummable vocal melodies.
“We’re on a roll,” it’s sung midway through the track — a slight wink and a nod from Superheaven considering the single is part of their upcoming, and now crazily anticipated, two-song EP.
Mantar – “Halsgericht”
German duo Mantar are back, which is always cause for celebration. Then again, that their next full-length is going to be called Post Apocalyptic Depression gives us some pause about the overall vibe of the record. What we can say about first single “Halsgericht” is that it’s a gnarly, punk-n-roll fist-pounder of the highest order. In other words? A total banger.
Guitarist-vocalist Hanno Klänhardt himself loosely described the spirit of the song title as “the right to impose extra heavy punishment.” Indeed, despite Mantar’s streamlined, guitar-and-drums set up, they’re dishing out maximum damage like a pair of old pros.
Scour – “Infusorium”
In his downtime from Pantera’s busy touring schedule, Philip Anselmo cranked out a new album, Gold, from his extreme-metal supergroup SCOUR, which also features members of Pig Destroyer, Misery Index and more, and needless to say, lead single “Infusorium” is fucking hostile and then some.
It’s a hell-spawned blast of horns-up blackened death metal that packs a surprisingly tasty guitar solo (courtesy of Misery Index’s Mark Kloeppel) and plenty of Anselmo’s scorched-earth gutturals. Gold metal stuff.
Cemican – “Kukulkán Wakah Chan”
Guadalajaran Aztec folk-metal atavists Cemican “have the charge of the gods to bring our music and the glory of ancient Mexico to the entire world, as well as the songs [of] death that will awaken the true gods” — at least that’s what they told Revolver in 2020.
Their latest single is an epic thrash exhortation to those “true gods,” weaving wicked metal riffery and primal gang vocals with indigenous, pre-Hispanic instrumentation — including one particularly brutal flute.
Linkin Park – “Two Faced”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Linkin Park cemented their comeback this week, dropping their first album in seven years — and first since the death of beloved singer Chester Bennington — FROM ZERO.
The record largely leans into the punchy nu-metal sound of the band’s Hybrid Theory and Meteora days, and the last pre-release single, “Two Faced,” nicely fits into that mode, setting off Mike Shinoda’s iconic rapping against the impressively throat-shredding screams of new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong.