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 black metal, hardcore, thrash 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.
Bad Omens – “Left for Good”
Bad Omens fans have many things to be thankful for this year, including this fourth and latest explosive single from the band since August. And like those earlier tracks, Noah Sebastian and Co. left the faithful something pretty darn good.
Aesthetically, “Left for Good” industrial-stomps through its verses, harnesses a darkened rock anthemia in its chorus, and gets sick and syncopated for that mid-song breakdown.
Hardly content to stay in the middle, Sebastian’s dynamic performance delivers tragically yearning croons and steely-eyed, substantively pissed-off growls (“Motherfucker, you owe me an apology”).
Converge – “Love Is Not Enough”
“We must grow to stomach the taste of our own blood.”
There’s been a definite lack of new Converge in our diets these past few years, with the band having last offered us their collaborative Bloodmoon: I album with Chelsea Wolfe and Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky in 2021. So, we’re ravenously gorging on this masterfully manic first taste of next year’s much anticipated Love Is Not Enough LP.
The lineup has been cleaved back down to Converge’s core quartet, yet there’s still plenty of meat on the bone on the title track. Terror-thrash pacing, run-and-gun double-kicks, paranoia-spiraling metalcore licks, and ever-screeched poetics from Jacob Bannon. Grade A stuff, across the board.
It’s certainly not enough, but we’ll make do until Converge plate the rest of the release in February.
Lamb of God – “Parasocial Christ”
A battle anthem to fend off keyboard warriors and the terminally online, Lamb of God’s second single of the fall, as explained by vocalist Randy Blythe, is somewhat about how utterly annoyed he is that we’re always glued to our devices. And yet here we are, gleefully taking in the sounds of his band’s latest megaton blast via the magic of the world wide web. It’s a conundrum that keeps the metal vet up at night.
You don’t have to root through the binary code to see how ripping “Parasocial Christ” is. This is prime, thrashing LOG at their angriest. The riffs cut deep. The shred is impeccable. Blythe bellows with untold fury. Christ, it’s damn near perfect.
Showing Teeth – “Labyrinth”
Back in April, social media star Showing Teeth told her followers that she’d been pumping herself up for a big year ahead “while recording animal noises in my car.” Practicing feral screeches and growls from within a Honda Accord seems to have paid off well, per the bonkers and beastly performance she pulls off on debut single “Labyrinth.”
The song begins with cat-scratch shrieks and wicked modern metalcore screams, yet Showing Teeth also delivers melodious song-birding by the time the tune booms into the chorus. The animal kingdom also includes a progressively elephantine drum clinic from Periphery drum-pounder Matt Halpern, while guitarist Zach Munowitz bounds through chunk-forward riffage like a protein-shake-addicted Kangaroo.
Jay Weinberg – “Sandstone” feat. George Clarke
“Wait for the danger of the flood.”
Jay Weinberg’s prolific career has seen him supplying sick, supportive beats for the likes of Slipknot, Suicidal Tendencies and even Bruce Springsteen. We’re at the dawn of a bold new era, though, as he’s now showcasing his own music through a recently launched singles series, which will culminate in an EP release in 2026.
“Sandstone” is an extremely promising starting point, with the seven-minute blackgaze song — on which Weinberg plays all instruments — harnessing smoky layers of distorted melancholy and powerfully-pounded drums. He also invited friend and Deafheaven vocalist George Clarke to finesse the tune with his exquisitely depressive screech.
WORM – “Necropalace”
What a ghoulish delight it’s been to explore WORM’s haunted “Necropalace” this week. It was apparently about damn time to do so, since vocalist Phantom Slaughter says this phantasmal domain has been harboring his “memories and nightmares for centuries.”
The epic, 10-minute single creaks from slow-crawling symphonic black metal towards doom-folk spectrality and frantically arpeggiated guitar dueling. One section is full of saber-clinking sound effects. Phantom Slaughter gives us a tour of his crib, detailing its blood-gushing walls and lycanthropic house guests.
After passing through its doors, “darkness may consume your mortal soul forever,” the band warn us. But to be honest, we’re ready to hole up in the palace for a while.