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 tech death, hardcore, post-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.
ABBIE FALLS – “descend.exe”
“Life is just a temporary plan,” per the title of Czech metalcore tacticians ABBIE FALLS’s new album, which they dropped in full today. And yet, we feel like the drastic, bombastic, pull-no-punches punishment put on display through its “descend.exe,” in particular, makes for perma-placement on any heavy playlist.
Following a murky guitar ring-out in the intro, the band flatten the earth with terror-thrashed intensity, discordantly whammy-abusing guitar texturing, and a cavernous trap-beat kaboom.
This is all to say, run their .exe file ASAP.
Archspire – “Carrion Ladder”
The world’s fastest band are ready to unleash the “worst album of 2026” (their words, not ours), and Archspire are doing exactly what they do best — freaking out the community with a tech-death tornado of absurdity
Rank in all the right ways, “Carrion Ladder” is high-grade Archspire. For starters, Oli Spire is rapid-fire splattering the mic with his verses, sounding something like Nathan Explosion going full Twista.
Between the dramatic classical melodicism and impossibly blasted-out pace, the rest of the band come across like a cavalcade of Clydesdales tap-dancing along to the sound of Carmina Burana rattling around the garburator. Sensational.
Blood for Blood – “You’re Gonna Have to Kill Me”
“Hey punk… you still trying to be hard?”
Hardcore legends Blood for Blood serve up this Beantown beatdown — their first new song in 21 years — with record-scratch subversiveness.
On the surface, the brawny, fast-paced heater sounds like the kind of song that’ll have tough guys worldwide throwing fists in the pit. But the band also call out phony rebels and wannabe “criminals” for faking a hard stance, instead throwing their support behind the people trying to get by in this cold, cold world (“The truth is we speak for the weak/For those that were broken and those that were beat”).
Silent Planet – “under your skin”
“I’ll follow you down.”
The big and beefy breakdown in Silent Planet’s latest single imagines people uniting at the edge of an infinite void, dangling dangerously close to the abyss. Though an untold vacuum threatens to suck them in, the tune also suggests people can find “light inside the grief.” All is not lost.
There’s a pretty good metaphor in there, perhaps, about the healing power of music. It’s dark out there, friends, but a song like “under your skin” — replete with steady stomp rhythms, magenta-searing riffage and a few positive thoughts — can be a beacon to guide you out of those toughest times.
Unverkalt – “Die Auslöschung”
Just as Unverkalt announced their Héréditaire album this week, guitarist Themis Ioannou revealed that the Greek band’s “aim has always been to blend softer, more romantic elements with extreme chaos.”
The group delivers as promised on the record’s first single, “Die Auslöschung,” which drifts from bleak-toned, but beautifully sung post-metal, to hellfire black-metal blasting, and back again.
Cleaner vocalist Dimitra Kalavrezou offers troubling, conflicted musings (“I miss the way you hurt me”) through melancholy melodies and stressed-out semi-shouts, while guitarist Eli Mavrychev brings big roars to the blast sections.
A.A. Williams – “Just a Shadow”
An “irrepressible ache” informs A.A. Williams’ “Just a Shadow,” the singer-songwriter’s debut single for Reigning Phoenix Music, which she explains is “an ode to the darkness inside.” That aching aesthetic is likewise irresistible.
There’s a bit of an Evanescence-like nu-rock sway to the track early on — a gathering storm of haunting piano chords, depressive guitar hooks and dramatic vocal dynamics. By song’s end, we’re led into an oddly glorious gloom riff, which technically fades out towards an emotive ether, but will be sticking in our heads all weekend long.