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The record label responsible for launching such bands as Killswitch Engage and Every Time I Die is back in action.

The indie label Ferret Music is known for propelling some of the most successful 2000s metalcore artists into the spotlight. And they're back.

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The founders of Ferret Music — the hardcore label that delivered early releases from Killswitch Engage, Converge, Every Time I Die, Zao and more — are relaunching the imprint in 2026 and have announced both a run of upcoming represses and the signing of two new acts: BORE and Wounded Touch. The news arrives from founder Carl Severson — also of New Jersey metalcore outfit Nora — who confirmed Ferret’s upcoming plans. He’d founded the imprint in the Nineties, and filled their catalogue releases from Converge, ETID, In Flames, The Devil Wears Prada, Poison the Well, Madball, Shadows Fall and many more. Warner Music Group assumed control of the catalogue in 2010, which led Severson and then Ferret co-owner Paul Conroy to form Good Fight Entertainment Per a press release, the new era of Ferret brings Severson to his hardcore roots “at a time when heavy music is once again thriving at a grassroots level that is driven by community, discovery, and a renewed appetite for authenticity.” “I started Ferret as a way to be more a part of hardcore,” he explains in a statement. “My friends all had talent and were in a band (Endeavor) and I wanted to do more than carry things to contribute to what they were doing. It was a passion that turned into a life and into a career. “For the vast majority of its initial existence I worked with my friends, worked with bands we loved listening to and it was just honestly an adventure. We grew and eventually saw behind the curtain and ventured beyond it. Things changed. My friends didn’t, and we still love listening… So here we are.” The new signees include the Long Island, New York-based BORE, who have been together since 2018 and most recently delivered the Feral album in 2025. Ferret was a label we always looked up to,” guitarist Danny Kopij adds in a statement, noting that records like ETID’s Hot Damn! are coded in his group’s collective DNA. “So, to get to be a part of the Ferret family, let alone to get to be here for the revival is nothing short of the honor of a lifetime. Looking forward to this next chapter of our band and to get to do it Ferret Style. “Most of our childhoods were shaped by the Ferret catalogue, so we’d have been championing this return out of sheer excitement regardless,” Wounded Touch vocalist Nick Holland adds, further describing Ferret as the “holy grail label of our youth. “But to instead get to be directly involved as boots on the ground for the return of Ferret and count ourselves among the pantheon of genre defining records released under that name is a validation that can’t be bought, traded or diminished.” Though ETAs on new music from BORE and Wounded Touch are TBD, Ferret Music have announced a slate of upcoming vinyl represses. This includes a 20th anniversary pressing of metalcore act Remembering Never s 2006 album God Save Us. The release restores the full-length’s original artwork and adds an extra track. You can pre-order a Revolver-exclusive copy of God Save Us on “Gold/Olive/Black” vinyl, limited to 250 copies, in our shop.

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Metal News: Russian Circles Premiere New Single Music Video 'Empath' From Upcoming New Album 'Nine'

Powerful instru-metallists Russian Circles are back to hypnotize headbangers with a ninth full-length, appropriately dubbed Nine. To celebrate the announcement, the trio have delivered a damned heavy taste of things to come via first single “Empath.” The track begins with guitar noise humming in and out of focus like a clutch of bagpipes being forced through a space-and-time-bending black hole, plus the sound of Brian Cook’s corrosive-to-the-touch bass fuzz. The full band lunge into blackened, deviously-trilled doom before bringing things to a cacophonously power-swung mid-song subterranea — the latter moment described in a press release as “a deliciously knuckleheaded hardcore breakdown.” A black-and-white, super high-contrast music video from director Madeline Hampton presents what looks like a garden-hose blast of water slow-mo trickling through the air like liquid mercury, someone’s bikini stroll through the desert and an exploding power grid. You can peep the artsy extremity of it all up above. As for Nine, the album is said to feature “seven seismic tracks [that] act as long-form oriented soundtracks to the trials and tragedies of life in the modern age.” While its members are no longer all living in Chicago, Illinois — drummer Dave Turncrantz is in the Windy City, while Cook is out in Vashon Island, Washington, and guitarist Mike Sullivan is out in Los Angeles, California — they came together to crush out another instrumental LP and continue their friendship. “The music we make is a collective process of reconciliation, navigation, and reflection upon aging both as individuals and as a creative entity,” they added in joint statement. “Life has created very real distances between us, but the band continues to be at the center, and this creative collaboration is a way of charting the passage of time while also giving us a reason to look to the future.” The band recorded with engineer and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at the Electrical Audio facility in Chicago, Illinois, and Ballou’s own GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. It’s Russian Circles’ fourth album to be produced with Ballou, following 2016’s Guidance, 2019’s Blood Year and 2022’s Gnosis. Nine is out August 28th via Sargent House. That’d be the cover art and tracklisting down below. Pre-orders for the album on either Eco Graphite vinyl or standard black wax can be found in Revolver s shop. Russian Circles have also announced a slate of concerts to support the impending LP, which feature support from post-metal mainstays Pelican and doom-bringers Primitive Man on select dates. That info is likewise below. Nine tracklisting:BoreholeEmpathEluvialE2MeridianArlettaSeventh Seal Russian Circle North American tour dates 2026:9/25 Whitefish Bay, WI The Argo *9/26 Chicago, IL Bohemian National Cemetery *9/28 Detroit, MI El Club *9/29 Toronto, ON The Opera House *9/30 Montreal, QC Club Soda *10/1 Boston, MA Royale *10/3 Queens, NY Knockdown Center *10/4 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer *10/5 Baltimore, MD Soundstage *10/7 Carrboro, NC Cat s Cradle *10/8 Charleston, SC The Music Farm *10/9 Orlando, FL The Beacham Theater *10/10 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse *10/12 Nashville, TN The Basement East *10/13 Indianapolis, IN The Hi-Fi *11/4 St. Louis, MO Delmar Hall $11/6 Denton, TX Rubber Gloves $11/7 Austin, TX The Far Out Lounge $11/9 Phoenix, AZ Walter Studios $11/11 Los Angeles, CA The Belasco $11/12 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall $11/14 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom $11/15 Seattle, WA The Showbox $11/16 Boise, ID Treefort Music Hall $11/17 Salt Lake City, UT Metro Music Hall $11/19 Englewood, CO The Gothic Theatre $11/20 Omaha, NE Slowdown $11/21 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater $ * with Pelican $ with Primitive Man

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Deftones have announced this year's Dia De Los Deftones, seeing them return to Petco Park in San Diego joined by AFI, Converge and more.

The fest will return to San Diego this November with characteristically diverse bill of openers.

It’s that time of year again: private music makers Deftones have just made the official public announcement regarding the next instalment of their Dia De Los Deftones festival. This time around, the alt-metal icons have curated a monster line-up that brings Converge, AFI, rising heavy outfit Ladrones and more to San Diego, California s Petco Park. The announcement dropped earlier today (June 23rd), in which Deftones confirmed that the seventh instalment of Dia De Los Deftones takes place November 7th. The line-up finds Deftones topping the bill, naturally. The day also features sets from alt-rockers the Neighbourhood, ever-morphing punk unit AFI, rapper Bktherula, hardcore lifers Converge, alt-experimentalist Jehnny Beth, Pesado Flow inventors Ladrones, electropunk Brooklynites Lip Critic and rapper Lustsickpuppy. A pre-sale begins tomorrow (June 24th) at 10 a.m. PT, while the general onsale is this Friday (June 26th) 10 a.m. PT. More info and access to the pre-sale can be yielded by signing up for Deftones’ e-mail list over here. The next Dia De Los Deftones fest is currently one of two North American Deftones appearances set for the rest of 2026. They also perform at the Fort Worth, Texas, edition of Sick New World on October 24th. That said, Deftones also have a handful of European fest shows on deck for the summer, and the info on those dates is here.

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The gods of heavy have blessed music fans thus far into 2026. We’re only just halfway through the year, but it’s already shaping up to be another golden time for metal — one that’s provided iconic farewells and surprise hellos, bands doubling their fun with a pair of blistering LPs, and the announcement of many mega-anticipated releases. To highlight what’s come through the pipeline to date, we asked our readers to vote for the records that have had them banging their heads the most. They responded and ranked their faves accordingly. Lamb of God Into Oblivion Even outside of this week’s fan poll, our readers have been reminding us that they are fully down with the latest LOG release. Hell, someone pops up in our Instagram comments most Fridays to tell us that Into Oblivion’s “Blunt Force Blues” is one of the band’s best songs yet. In what you’ll see is a bit of a running theme here, Into Oblivion finds Lamb of God critiquing the global hellscape around them through a series of virulent thrashers and groove-heavy smashers. It’s filthy, to be sure, but it’s clear that lots of metalheads were ready for a baaaad case of “Sepsis.” Periphery A Pale White Dot There are actually 12 dots on the cover of Periphery’s latest album, some paler than others. Nevertheless, the presentation of the progressive force’s eighth studio album makes our readers blush — whether the act are vaulting between the derelict, djent-pressed heaviness of “Mr. God” and more melodic anthems like “Heaven on High,” or mixing ambient synth washes with extreme blasts on “Obsession.” The collabs with Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos and Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo clearly had the fans clapping, too. Converge Love Is Not Enough (or) Hum of Hurt What’s better than getting one Converge album in 2026? Getting two, of course! This year saw the Massachusetts metalcore veterans deliver both Love Is Not Enough and Hum of Hurt in just under four months, and our heads are still swimming over all that heaviness. Indeed, Revolver readers couldn t pick one album over the one. While there are exceptions to the rule, the first part is perhaps a touch faster, while Hum gets a little groovier and weirder. And while Jacob Bannon poses that “it only gets worse” on the latter — at least on a narrative level — it’s truly a great and prosperous time to be a Converge fan. Neurosis An Undying Love for a Burning World One of the wildest surprise announcements to come this year was the return of psych-sludge greats Neurosis, who dropped a whole damn album on us this spring completely out of nowhere. What’s more, the lineup has evolved to now include Isis and Sumac vocalist-guitarist Aaron Turner, and he is a seamless fit. Indeed, the NeurIsis connection is complete. From the overstimulation of the announcement itself, to the actual sonic heft of the record’s gargantuan grooves and gorgeous layering, it’s a lot to take in. Yet Neurosis’ return filled out hearts with joy. The world is both literally and metaphorically burning around us, but metal fans’ love of Neurosis is unwavering. Evanescence Sanctuary No surprise here: Revolver readers found solace within the strains of Evanescence’s stunning and much-anticipated sixth full-length, Sanctuary. Amy Lee and Co. laid the bait last year with the booming single “Afterlife and continued to reel listeners in with their massively anthemic “Who Will You Follow.” For those who love the group s emotionally towering choruses, nu-brooded dynamics and Lee’s unwaveringly mighty vibrato, the rest of the record delivers just as big. And it s been rapturously received by the fandom, to say the least. Early in the record, Lee asks someone to “tell me when you’ve had enough.” Given the myriad votes cast for Sanctuary, there’s an infinitude of spins to go before we reach our limit.

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Converge are having a pretty busy year. After releasing two new albums already, Love Is Not Enough and Hum Of Hurt, they've now also announced a special event: Saddest Day 2026: A Converge Curated Event. The lineup also includes Cave In, Emma Ruth Rundle, Chat Pile, Baroness, Agriculture, among others.

An additional headliner remains pending.