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 metalcore, shock-rock, darkened rock 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.
Boundaries – “Malconscience”
“I just want to see you suffer.”
Boundaries vocalist Matthew McDougal told us in our recent interview that the longtime Connecticut metalcore outfit generally strove to be “heavier and scarier” on their Yearning: the unbeautiful after album. They set the bar high from the jump via opening beatdown “Malconscience,” a song that revels in punitive pinch-squeals, teeth-cracking electronic explosions and percussive swings that launch you down a billion-step spiral staircase.
McDougal goes meta with mania-inducing mosh calls (“Show me what I want to see”), and we figure the pit’s going to get extra ugly whenever they cue this up in the set.
Kami Kehoe – “THE END”
“THE END” is just the beginning for Kami Kehoe.
Look, we’ve made it clear that Kehoe is one of our “ride or dies,” and her Revolver-approved run of singles continues with night-cruising mood tune “THE END.” The nocturnally hypnotic track floods the senses with rock and R&B feels, the artist working emotional, auto-tune-irradiated thoughts over ice-cold snap beats or a compound-djented bridge.
This is all to say, Kehoe’s upcoming LOVE IS A WEAPON album is shaping up to be a monster. Crank up your car stereo and let it ride.
Loathe – “Block of Flats”
“Back to life, born again.”
Where to begin with Loathe’s A Stranger to You, the U.K. phenoms’ jaw-droppingly excellent new album?
While the new record technically starts with the piano-centered “Entrance,” “Block of Flats” is where Loathe explode as a full-band entity. It’s a hybridized bang-and-bop, Erik Bickerstaffe delivering bellini-sweet guitar plinking and smooth-crooned reflections before Kadeem France tags in to deliver full-chest screams across a metallic dust-up.
Marilyn Manson – “Front Toward Enemy”
“Front Toward Enemy” will leave Manson fans black and blue — and grinning ear-to-ear.
The shock rocker puts up his dukes and starts swinging like a madman on his latest industrialized fight song (Edit: which fans pointed out had previously been issued as a B-side on a limited edition CD single in 2025 before getting its wider release today) . It’s a stomping, dirt-nasty bric-a-brac where Manson puffs himself up with devilish braggadocio (“I was too much for hell to swallow”) before unloading on his enemies.
Confrontational as ever, and seething with FAFO energy, his latest Assassination song goes for the kill.
Mastodon – “Snakes for Dinner”
Might we suggest you grab a fork and dig into “Snakes for Dinner”?
Mastodon’s latest preview behind Marrow Deep is a feverishly inspired swirl of pulse-quickening rhythms and hypnotic blues-sludge runs. It’s also got a particularly psychedelic, third-eye-channeling synth solo, plus a haunting closing guest vocal from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme.
Lyrically, it’s a crusher reflecting on the memories of those they lost (“When you left you took the moon and stars”), the song noticeably name-dropping Mastodon’s old “Hearts Alive” track — a song famously featuring one of late guitarist Brent Hinds’ most jaw-dropping solos.
Motionless in White – “Fight Like Hell”
“This is my brutality.”
Motionless in White splatter off into all kinds of directions through their past, present and future-contemplating Decades album — from blistering metalcore, to wistful rock ballads to irate collabs with Corey Taylor.
Release-day single “Fight Like Hell” rings the bell with a mix of anthemic rock hooks and nu-boomed swagger, Motionless moving towards rap-rock brattiness while talking up how MIW are filling up rooms full-cap with their kaleidoscopic brand of heaviness.