Reunions are a major part of the heavy-music landscape. Honestly, it feels like every week or so we hear about a group making some kind of a comeback, from genre titans guaranteed to have hundreds of thousands of excited metal fans hoisting their horns, to cult acts reappearing for an unexpected but most welcome return.
Case in point a few times over, last fall saw goddamn Slayer raising hell once again for the first time in five years, while 2025 promises to see more underground factions like Southern sludgesters Acid Bath playing their first gigs since the late Nineties.
While it feels like everyone is getting back together these days, there are certainly myriad metal acts still holed up on their respective hiatuses. With that in mind, we asked Revolver readers which bands they’d most want to see back up onstage, and these were the top five vote-getters.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine played the final show of their post-lockdown reunion tour back in 2022, while it’s been just over a year since drummer Brad Wilk let the world know that the beloved rap-rock agitators had headed back into hibernation.
That said, Revolver readers let us know that they want Rage to wake up ASAP. In other words, they’ll settle for nothing less than another round of rhythmically bombtracked reunion dates. Get Zach de la Rocha back on the mic; make sure Tom Morello’s wah pedal is in working order. Now, testify.
Title Fight
Per a 2023 interview with vocalist Ned Russin, Title Fight never technically broke up, so “reunion” might be a funny way of describing the return of the cult Pennsylvania outfit, should the opportunity present itself in 2025. Even so, with the band having last performed in 2018, it’s fair to say that they haven’t been in fighting shape for quite some time now.
Fans are salivating at the thought of Title Fight getting back in the ring to perform anything from the back catalog — from the speed-focused melodicism of their early hardcore era through to the Vaseline-lensed shoegaze swirliness of Hyperview. Notably, that final full-length release remarkably celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Kyuss
It’s been 30 years since Kyuss’ classic lineup packed up the circus and left town. The stoney desert-rockers’ legend has only grown since then, as has a complicated history between its members.
Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen vocalist John Garcia and drummer Brant Bjork try to revive the band in some fashion — which led former guitarist and current Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme to foist a trademark infringement lawsuit against his old bandmates in 2012 when they tried to tour the old songs as Kyuss Lives! (They ended up rebranding as Vista Chino.)
A few years back it seemed like Homme had at least been contemplating playing with the band again, but that appeared to have fallen through. While Garcia played Kyuss songs on his 2024 solo tour, a return to Sky Valley doesn’t seem to be on the horizon at the moment. Stranger things have happened, though.
Sepultura’s classic lineup
Brazilian thrash and groove trailblazers Sepultura began their “Celebrating Life Through Death” farewell tour in 2024, and have global dates booked all the way up to next November. So, on a certain level, it may be a bit premature to call for the band to arise for the reunion circuit just yet.
But here’s the thing: Revolver readers are asking longtime stewards Andreas Kisser and Paulo Jr. to bury the hatchet with founding brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera and finally get the classic lineup back together.
Max and Iggor quite obviously have a taste for the old stuff — considering their trio of fully re-recorded Sepultura releases (as Cavalera) — while Kisser has publicly invited the pair to participate in Sepultura’s final show (which has yet to be announced).
Still, it remains to be confirmed whether the Cavaleras will officially return to their roots.
Faith No More
Revolver readers can b-e extra aggressive in their voting patterns sometimes. And just as it had played out in our 2024 poll, there’s no single heavy act you’d love to see reunite more than Faith No More. It was no small victory for the alt-metal greats, either — this was a landslide win.
The last time Faith No More actually played a show together was all the way back in 2016, while out promoting the previous year’s Sol Invictus comeback album, and the band canceled concert plans in 2020 and 2021, but keyboardist Roddy Bottum gave fans a flicker of hope late last year by noting in his Substack newsletter that the band technically exist in a “semi permanent hiatus.”
That “semi” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, if we’re being honest, especially in light of bassist Billy Gould’s recent statement that the group are in “a really weird spot.” But even so, there’s definitely still a chance that Faith No More could one day make an epic return.
If so, it’ll obviously be the reunion of the year.