6 New Songs You Need to Hear Now: 7/27/18 | Revolver

6 New Songs You Need to Hear Now: 7/27/18

Ghostemane, King Nine, Neckbeard Deathcamp and more
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Here at Revolver, we're always on the hunt for great new music — indeed, it's a big part of our jobs. With that in mind, here are the tracks released this week in metal, hard rock, hardcore and beyond that have been on heavy rotation at Revolver HQ. For your listening pleasure, we've also compiled the songs in a Spotify playlist, below, which will grow each week.

Ghostemane - "D(r)ead"
Ghostemane seemingly gets better with every project and every new musician he collaborates with. On his latest cut, "D(r)ead," the extreme metal–inspired rapper teams up with none other than Blink-182 drummer and hip-hop head Travis Barker. The first part of the track features Ghostemane on his own, exploring new modes of sound, as the production injects moments of eerie horror-show noise for him to work off of and rap around. When Barker's part comes in, the song changes completely and Ghostemane unveils a vocal approach much closer to rock "singing" than ever before. The result is at least three songs in one, all of them riveting and unnerving in the best way possible.

King Nine - "V.R.C.F."
Long Island's King Nine have always been the more metal brother to Incendiary, and their latest is definitely another piece of evidence backing that theorem. Taking influence from everything from Nuclear Assault to Merauder, "V.R.C.F." has enough thrashy, high-speed hate to appeal to fans of Power Trip and half-speed destruction to prime the pit. King Nine have always excelled in the live setting, so the prospect of hearing this at their next gig is exciting to say the least. Now we just need a new LP.

Neckbeard Deathcamp - "The Left Are the Real Fascists"
The best-selling album on Bandcamp this week comes courtesy of Neckbeard Deathcamp, a virtually unknown noise band who make "FEDORA CRUSHING MILITANT BLACK METAL" (yes, in all caps), which means hilarious, crushing takedowns of Baja Blast–guzzling 4chan trolls ("Zyklon /b/"), desperate gamers ("Please Respond [I Showed You My Penis"]) and greasy boys in cargo shorts who feel entitled to sex ("Incel Warfare"). Best of all is "The Left Are the Real Fascists," a Bathoryesque cut imagining the future that liberals want — a hellscape reigned over by "SJW superkommandos" and "Chancellor Tumblr T." Well meme'd, boys, well meme'd.

Caracal - "Kick Punch"
Singapore post-hardcore crew Caracal drill into the genre's sweet spot, bringing together viscerally heavy sections with notes of melody and rhythm. "Kick Punch" features singer Rachel Lu spinning together completely furious vocals on one end of the spectrum and accenting them with a bluesy croon, in the ways some of the genre's greats like Daryl Palumbo or Greg Puciato might approach. It's a hell of a song that shows the genre has plenty of life to go around.

Deadbird - "Luciferous Heart"
You know those bands that your favorite musicians discuss at length? Deadbird are one of those bands. The Little Rock–based metal institution (along with the legendary Rwake, which shares personnel) developed a unique sound — progressive without meandering, uniquely brutal and totally gorgeous — that has inspire a legion of new acts including Pallbearer and Spirit Adrift. It's been 10 years since we last heard from the sludgy titans (on their killer 2008 LP Twilight Ritual), but in an age of Weakling clones, vanilla black metal, mediocre stadium crust and just plain boring shit everywhere, their return couldn't be more welcome.

A Forest of Stars - "Precipice Pirouette"
"120 years before our age, there is a Gentlemen's Club of A Forest of Stars, an exclusive brotherhood of Victorian Englishmen who consider themselves representatives of their era, an era as glorious and splendid as it is decadent." Congratulations! If you made it past U.K. collective A Forest of Stars' mission statement, then you are ready to begin this 10-minute psychedelic journey that plays out like some immersive, head-scratching carnival ride  — where Wolves in the Throne Room/Winterfylleth-style progressive black metal meets Jethro Tull character development meets outlandish Avatar-level mythmaking meets Current 93 damaged-psyche spoken-word creep folk. Good luck and Godspeed.