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 electronica-spiked djent, sax-blaring prog, throwback death 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.
Spiritbox – “No Love, No Loss”
Spiritbox are showing us their teeth again.
Straight out the gate, the band’s latest Tsunami Sea preview goes for the jugular through guitarist Mike Stringer’s barrage of pointed, progressively piercing djent riffs. Then again, “No Love, No Loss” also portals us through a vortex where Jungle-adjacent beat-smithing and electro-bass-warped weirdness quake amid Courtney Laplante’s poetically abstract spoken-word musings about a sinister rumbling beneath her feet.
There’s a lot to love about Spiritbox’s latest hybrid crusher. In other words, their “Loss” is our gain.
Imminence – “Death Shall Have No Dominion”
While Imminence just popped up with their first new song since the release of last year’s much-loved The Black album, the Swedish metal faction insist that the extreme new cut “goes deeper and darker than you could ever imagine.” All we can say is keep plunging us through that abyss.
“Death Shall Have No Dominion” is said to have been inspired by the classic sounds of Scandinavian death metal, and you certainly get a feel for that through one section’s blistering melodeath pace. That said, Imminence also maintain their signature violin-driven melancholy, shake stalactites loose with noise-plussed rhythms, and heave a phlegmy tale of pain and pleasure.
No matter how you slice it, it’s a dark and divine chunk of heaviness.
Teen Mortgage – “Box”
Coming off a few years of grimy-sounding, yet-pop-centered punk EPs, Maryland-based duo Teen Mortgage have announced they’re set to deliver their first-ever full-length, Devil Ultrasonic Dream, this spring via Roadrunner Records.
“Box” is the record’s first single, and it’s a devilishly bashed but bubblegummy jam. The bass distortion is maxed to 11. The guitar hooks are flying through the air like lil’ screamin’ demons. Mega-rasped but melodic vocals abound.
It’s the kind of ‘tude-heavy, carefree pop-core song that’d be in good company on a playlist alongside Turnstile, Angel Du$t and PUP.
Calva Louise – “W.T.F.”
“What the fuck am I meant to do?” An existential question of great import, here screamed at us quite chaotically by Calva Louise vocalist Jess Allanic on the band’s multiversal alt-metal anthem “W.T.F.”
While on the surface it seems like the song is about getting lost in the plot, the U.K.-based trio confidently slam together elements of twitchy nu-metal, knuckle-busting neo-classical piano melodies, and modern metal bruising. It also come along with an expertly-crafted, dimensions-jumping gothic-horror music video.
What are the forever-ambitious Calva Louise meant to do in the grand scheme of things? Exactly this, apparently.
Rivers of Nihil – “House of Light”
Rivers of Nihil’s progressive-death mastery is on full display throughout “House of Light,” a six-minute preview of their forthcoming self-titled album that specializes in metronome-exploding kick work, riffs brawnier than a full-grown Kodiak, and a vocal tandem of soaring highs (guitarist Andy Thomas) and demonic lows (bassist Adam Biggs).
We gotta say, though, it’s the smooth-jazz sensuality guest alto saxophone player Patrick Corona hums to the intro that really makes “House of Light” such a horny delight.
Final Resting Place – “Bound by Affliction”
It’s super clear that East coast death-metal faction Final Resting Place are firmly living in the Nineties. That’s apparent in the way “Bound by Affliction” lunges into Suffocation-style slam sections and recklessly-blasted moments Gen-X headbangers gravitated towards during the Attitude Era. Whether this was intentional or not, the trilled and grooving mid-song break also conjures Deftones’ “Bored.”
Bringing an extra measure of old-school legitimacy to Final Resting Place’s latest release, the band — which comprises members of Sanction, Simulakra, Scarab and more — also managed to stamp their new Bound by Affliction EP with a 1999 copyright date.