Right here at Revolver, we’re all the time on the hunt for brand spanking new songs to bang our heads to — certainly, it’s an enormous a part of our jobs. With that in thoughts, listed here are the tracks launched this week in masked alt-metal, stone-footed sludge, cosmic shoegaze and extra which have been on heavy rotation at Revolver HQ.
On your listening pleasure, we’ve additionally compiled the songs in an ever-evolving Spotify playlist.
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Cenobia – “Swallowed by the World”
Music by music, we’re solely turning into extra hopelessly dedicated to Cenobia.
The shrouded Aussie alt-metal artist delivers one other shadowy, dark-chugged anthem — this and her first three singles now confirmed to be a part of the upcoming Deadly Devotion EP she’s releasing by Fearless Information. “Burnt by the solar and drowned within the moonlight,” Cenobia cloaks the lower in vocoded trap-raps and hovering vocal melodies.
Submit and let the inky groove swallow you entire.
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Concrete Automobiles – “Textual content Cease”
The second of Vancouver outfit Concrete Automobiles’ summer time singles is an epic jam crossing the worlds of noise-scattered post-hardcore and art-rock, an unpredictable and infrequently shaky journey alongside a picket rollercoaster monitor about to pop its most load-bearing rivet.
At its loudest, the music recollects the cyclical dissonance of peak Drive Like Jehu, however Concrete Automobiles offset the aggression whereas ebbing-and-flowing amid clear channel jazz chords and sun-glistened sax smoothness.
A blossoming punk poet laureate, guitarist Ben Lock fluctuates between rasps and whispers, highlighting moments the place mundanity turns into bleakly profound (“I can nearly style the tin within the canned rooster meat”).
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Doom Mutual – “Static Planet”
Producer Nick Raskulinecz (Deftones, Rush) simply launched his new singles and 7-inch label, Hiss Recordings, with a gauzy-textured, distortion-drenched and dreamily-sung launch from heavy shoegazers Doom Mutual.
On “Static Planet” — half of a two-song 7-inch — Daphne Browdy and Davis Gestiehr’s vocal harmonies are in excellent lock-step, every exquisitely synchronized second touchdown elementally entwined, harking back to god-tier tandems like Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell, or Veruca Salt’s Nina Gordon and Louise Put up. And but, the younger group are creating a lush and expansive world unto themselves.
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Down – “Blood Oath”
Maintain tight, Down are about to bury you in gloom riffs and NOLA-noddin’ references.
“Blood Oath,” the sludge supergroup’s first authentic dying march since 2014, batters sluggish and onerous, Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein’s guitar assault touchdown like a 10-ton stone gargoyle tossed onto the French Quarter. Philip Anselmo’s daylight-nulling wordplay shouts out varied native spots, plus the nefarious sermonizing of the “reaper’s son.”
Creeping. Crushing. Traditional Down. We all know we gained’t neglect their “Oath” anytime quickly.
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God’s Hate – “Received’t Be Disgraced”
“I do know your ache is actual… However it’s essential to by no means submit.”
God’s Hate press-slammed the Sound & Fury crowd right into a state of shock final weekend with their shock set, the long-running California hardcore band’s first efficiency in over a yr. They doubled-down on awe-inspiring feats just a few days later by releasing a brand new and wholly monstrous three-song EP.
Lead-off monitor “Received’t Be Disgraced” pig-piles a collection of ever-heavying mosh riffs on prime of one another earlier than lunging right into a cumbersome back-end two-step. Vocalist Brody King acknowledges life’s many challenges, however posits you could’t let the darkness take over. It’s robust, however the hope is that you just’ll ultimately have the ability to push previous the ache (“To climb the mountain, would you ask it to shrink?”).
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Haywire – “Interstate Love Affair”
“I don’t care the place I’m going if I’m with you.”
The title of Haywire’s latest music — their first single by Roadrunner Information — provides off critical STP vibes, however the Boston band infuse the their road-trip anthem with parts of hardcore, pop-punk, oi and the thousand-hour jolt of power normally related to consuming a whole-ass flat of Mountain Dew Code Pink by yourself.
It’s an amped-up, wide-grinnin’, posi-pit startin’ and band-life-themed paean constructed for cranking up within the van when you’re dashing from town-to-town along with your closest pals.
