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 industrial, shock rock, trap 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.
Godflesh – “Living/Ending”
The end is near, but it’s not here yet. And for that, we celebrate.
Godflesh have been hanging onto the recordings for their upcoming penultimate album, Decay, for the past few years (they were, in fact, tracked at the same time as 2023’s PURGE). Now firmly out of limbo, first single “Living/Ending” reveals that Godflesh’s oppressive industrial-metal lurch only gets better with time.
The steel-driving mechano-beat hits hypnotically, while Ben Green’s bass thrum is a cavern-rattling groove. Justin K. Broadrick delivers exposed-nerve growls and psyche-drilling guitar dissonance. Drink it down to the last drop.
Ghostemane – “Zero Day”
“Now it’s time to do… something violent”
It was exciting enough when Ghostemane hopped on a hardcore cut with XCOMM earlier in the year, but now the cult rapper has shot back with his first solo track in five years. And as he puts it in a verse, he’s about to “break the necks” of anyone that gets in his way.
Above piledriving beats and a bruised-peach smack of Korn-esque seven-string sounds, Ghostemane flips from deathly whispers to antagonistic screams. While many folks are just “screamin’ fuck this and fuck that,” he’s a man of action — and by all accounts he’s using “Zero Day” to put the naysayers in traction.
Mastodon – “In the Ruins”
Mastodon begin “In the Ruins” in a reflective, still-of-the-morning mood, contemplating the state of things following a serious disaster — the song in part inspired by how bassist Troy Sanders and his family were displaced from their home following 2024’s devastating Hurricane Helene, as well as the 2025 death of founding guitarist Brent Hinds.
It begins with subtle but supple guitar harmonies and a soft-prog shuffle, but Mastodon power into an explosive back-end of thunder-quaked beats and screeching leads that don’t quite seek to push past the pain, but rather adapt to a new reality (“We don’t get over this/Can we grow around?”).
Fully vulnerable, at times raging, their rebuild period continues to impress.
Marilyn Manson – “Unalive”
As you may expect, Manson’s new and long-awaited One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 finds the shock rocker embracing the artistic aesthetic he’s honed for three decades, and its opening salvo, “Unalive,” both honors and advances the cause as a slow-creeped gothic romp. Menacing, melodic and on-point.
What’s more surprising is that “Unalive” follows the grand rock & roll tradition of songs like “The Twist,” “Cool Jerk” and “The Time Warp,” in that Manson helpfully lays out a step-by-step guide of some cool new dance moves he wants you to try out: “Stand in a circle, take out your sword/Now stab to your right/Go around in a daisy chain until you’re all unalive.”
Mental Cruelty – “Raise the Raven Banner”
“This is war.”
As a purported blood prophecy foretold (at least going by the lyrics), German deathcore outfit Mental Cruelty have unveiled a battleplan to secure dominion over heavy-music fans (“I am the hunter, you are my prey, I set your bodies ablaze”).
The execution of “Raise the Raven Banner” — ebbing-and-flowing between ominous ambient rumblings, blackened blast-outs and stern stomp-moshes — suggests they’ve got the goods. Best part of it is that once the six-minute epic winds down, you can just press play and “the battle will start again.”
Single Print Index – “Neon Red”
You know that part at the beginning of Dawn of the Dead when the SWAT team kicks down an apartment door and unloads a shotgun blast that full-on explodes a zombie head, and the special effects team probably made that thing out of a watermelon and a vat of Red Dye #2 so it looks super fake, but the melon is still wearing a beard so for a split-second you get that uncanny, pulse-rocketing feeling that you’ve just witnessed a real-deal murder?
Single Print Index’s Smith & Wesson-pumping, pinch-squealing beast of a new single is kind of like that. And just like fellow Pittsburgh native George Romero before them, the new Code Orange offshoot’s art is a viscerally terrifying thing of beauty.
“Neon Red” is an intriguing splatter of sound, and it’s got us jonesing for more of SPI’s “murder music.”