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 classic metal, psych doom, blackened 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.
King Diamond – “Spider Lilly”
The Danish royal truly delivers with his first single in five years, a damned delirious old-school banger that has the King’s falsetto flying high above hard-chugged bedlam, gothic organ swells a-plenty, and even a few back-ups from his latest musical collaborator, folk-metal adventurist Myrkur.
While it’s as-yet unclear when King Diamond will officially open the doors to his Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920 — the first album of a proposed trilogy —he’s scooched them ajar ever so slightly to detail his Institute’s titular, wall-crawling weirdo.
Fans might be blasting the single “every day from night ‘til dawn” until the rest of the album arrives.
AAWKS – “Death Trip”
“Now is the time of the storm.”
Canadian psych-doom crew AAWKS set sail with the second single of their forthcoming On Through the Sky Maze single this week, and it accordingly floods the speakers with an ultra-gnarly lo-fi aesthetic of choppy rhythms and mean, sudsy riffage. Thematically, it combines sung-and-growled lines about a Norse-myth giant going on an epic final journey with a vintage documentary sample about trippin’ on hallucinogens.
Needless to say, it’s high time we all taste AAWKS’ rainbow of rust-and-paisley guitar fuzz on our way to sonic Valhalla.
Drown in Sulphur – “Morningstar”
If you take a big whiff of Drown in Sulphur’s new deicide-driven and “deathcore to the bone” single — the second from the Italian outfit’s forthcoming Vengeance LP — you’re bound to get “intoxicated” by the smell of a false god’s burning flesh, or at least so suggests lead growler Christian Lombardo.
The absolutely ruthless track also has strong notes of Luciferean wordplay, unendingly gruesome guitar damage and ritualistic blast-beat carnage. In other words, Drown in Sulphur are making a meal of this heavy revenge fantasy, and we’re all invited to the cookout.
The Great Old Ones – “Under the Sign of Koth”
Lovecraftian death-metal veterans the Great Old Ones take the iconic horror author’s Randolph Carter character on a blackened trip throughout this eight-minute monstrosity. There’s a meta bent to it all, with a scene of the fictional figure hearing “the filthy moans of gugs and ghasts” within the vaults of Zin working in tandem to the sounds of vocalist Benjamin Guerry’s bloodcurdling cries.
The rest of the band whip themselves into a frenzy on their Dream Quest while ebbing and flowing through nastily-trilled licks, phantasmagoric melancholy and wave after wave of brimstone-scented hyper-blasts.
Till Lindemann – “Meine Welt”
Heralding his 2025 “Meine Welt” tour, Till Lindemann’s new single of the same name welcomes listeners into the Rammstein singer’s twisted universe. (The title translates to “My World.”)
It’s “a place for lost souls,” according to the anthemic chorus, and also a place for fans of Lindemann’s main band. Indeed, from the loud-soft dynamics to the industrial-metal bombast to the vocalist’s signature dramatic baritone, “Meine Welt” could easily pass for a new Rammstein cut.
Which isn’t a bad thing in our world.
Tubal Cain – “Slime Abyss”
Madison, Wisconsin, husband-and-wife duo Tubal Cain are mucking about in a raging underworld of “raw school” riffage and occult lyricism with their latest single, which happens to be the title track to their forthcoming Slime Abyss LP.
Though the band screech about trudging “onward through formless chaos,” the song itself sports an impeccably compact arrangement. Piercing, full-dimed Marshall heaviness and a powerfully Eighties-styled vibe help heighten the band’s seriously pleasing and mega fist-pumping “street metal for the people.”