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 Down Under alt-gaze, kill-crazed hardcore, covetous R&B-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.
Cenobia – “MAKE US WHOLE AGAIN”
Mysterious Australian solo artist Cenobia explained that her third single — as with her two multi-million streaming songs from 2025 — was “written for him,” though “he will never hear it.” While that’s cryptic as fuck, the real takeaway here is this: That person’s loss is our gain.
“MAKE US WHOLE AGAIN” hits the sweet spot with its dreamily effects-hazy, Deftones-ish slowgaze. Cenobia offers a melodious, whispery performance that runs more low-key than her earlier scream-imbued singles, yet that fits the song’s inner melancholy, as the artist intones on “missed opportunity,” loneliness, and letting the “the world slip through [her] fingertips.”
Chamber – “without a trace”
“You have only delayed your eventual demise.”
No complaints here — we have once again relented to the wrecking-crew heaviness of Nashville noisemakers Chamber. Why fight the inevitable?
As with “violins,” the first single behind their upcoming album, this is goodbye… , “without a trace” ravages speakers with jazzmodic guitar squirreliness, kinda like Dillinger Escape Plan at their most Guarana-fueled. A “power line hiss” drives the electrifying backend breakdown, where disturbed-groundloop anti-harmonies and vicious bleghs leave us “barely fucking breathing.”
Lamb of God – “The Killing Floor”
“Bow down to the butcher/Slaughtering your future.”
While Lamb of God’s new Into Oblivion is prime cut, across the board, “The Killing Floor” is an especially meaty metal attack from the Virginia mainstays. The mid-tempo thrasher is lean and to-the-point, yet also comes spiced with weird-as-hell guitar compression in the mosh section.
Randy Blythe is incensed over propagandists and warmongers rotting the empire from the inside, as normal folk sluice towards an untimely demise.
Pure Bliss – “I Want You to Die” feat. the Acacia Strain
Pure Bliss are not the forgiving kind. Per the lead-off cut on the Syracuse quintet’s metallically menacing new release, someone fucked up big time (“You crossed a line, paid a price you can’t afford”), and they’re facing the consequences in the form of a relentlessly heavy hardcore assault.
Death-drilled guitar harmonies, beef-knuckled mosh riffs and wild-stallion-esque six-string squeals underscore the violent fomentations of Pure Bliss vocalist Brandon DiFabio, who is about to deal some “piece of shit” a world of hurt. The Acacia Strain’s Vincent Bennett slips in a few vicious blows of his own.
As an aside, we also have to shout out Jack Jackal for providing the downright adorable artwork of an executioner daydreaming himself through some of his sickest fantasies.
sace6 – “covet”
Riffin’ on the gently-gliding lyrics vocalist sace. slides into during their R&B-metal outfit’s latest single, there’s plenty of “incentive” for getting incredibly stoked for the band’s upcoming brutlalist album.
Between the dove soft but heart-heavy vocals, the groovy electro-acoustic drum battering, and the subsonic guitar melodies, sace6 have us once again spin-kicking along to their heavy-coded music, just like gum-soled guitarist-producer Noah Thomas.
Do we have the “patience” to wait it out until the rest of the album drops in May? Well, that’s a harder sell, to be honest, but it is what it is.
Jay Weinberg – “Drone Operator” feat. NOWHERE2RUN
Jay Weinberg bombardiers his drum kit with a wicked performance (and contributes guitar, bass and vocals) on his latest solo single, which teams the Slipknot and Suicidal Tendencies vet with Jami Morgan and Shade Balderose of NOWHERE2RUN and Code Orange.
“Drone Operator” is a seething amalgam of fast hardcore tempos and incensed vocal fury, guest singer Morgan spewing venom over desk jockeys killing in the name of their commanders from their “throne of comfort” (“Never the giver — Always the taker”).
While Morgan and Balderose are on a new electronic path with NOWHERE2RUN, it’s still sick to hear the latter serving up seriously damaging, metallic riffs like this every now and again.