Strike And Kill
DevilDriver
DevilDriver’s Strike And Kill is the band’s eleventh studio album, released on July 10, 2026 via Napalm Records, and it plays like a renewed statement of purpose from Dez Fafara and a largely rebuilt lineup. Bringing back founding bassist Jon Miller and adding guitarists Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold alongside drummer Davier Pérez, the record leans hard into the group’s core DNA: a collision of groove metal, melodic death metal, dark thrash, and blackened atmosphere delivered with ferocious precision. Across its 51‑minute runtime, tectonic groove riffs, melodeath harmonies, and “bad‑weather” blackened textures are stacked into a relentless barrage that critics have widely described as the band’s heaviest, most focused work since Beast and Winter Kills.
The album opens with the incendiary “Dig Your Own Grave” and surges through cuts like “Dead in the Water,” “Sanctified in Scars,” and the title track “Strike and Kill,” each built on blisteringly technical riffing and rapid‑fire drumming that back lyrics about consequence, resilience, and hard‑earned lessons. While most of the record is a full‑throttle assault meant for circle pits and raised fists, DevilDriver weave in moments of eerie melody and dynamic contrast—“In the Moonlight” introduces clean vocals and soaring guitarmonies, and “Summoning Shadows” uses acoustic textures and a near‑ballad structure before the band crashes back in, underscoring the more personal, reflective tone of Fafara’s writing on this release. By the time closer “All Bets Are Off” collapses into ringing silence, Strike And Kill feels less like a stylistic reinvention than a sharpened, hungry return to form: a carnivorous reboot of the classic DevilDriver sound that channels years of struggle into savage, tightly written modern metal.
Strike And Kill
DevilDriver
DevilDriver’s Strike And Kill is the band’s eleventh studio album, released on July 10, 2026 via Napalm Records, and it plays like a renewed statement of purpose from Dez Fafara and a largely rebuilt lineup. Bringing back founding bassist Jon Miller and adding guitarists Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold alongside drummer Davier Pérez, the record leans hard into the group’s core DNA: a collision of groove metal, melodic death metal, dark thrash, and blackened atmosphere delivered with ferocious precision. Across its 51‑minute runtime, tectonic groove riffs, melodeath harmonies, and “bad‑weather” blackened textures are stacked into a relentless barrage that critics have widely described as the band’s heaviest, most focused work since Beast and Winter Kills.
The album opens with the incendiary “Dig Your Own Grave” and surges through cuts like “Dead in the Water,” “Sanctified in Scars,” and the title track “Strike and Kill,” each built on blisteringly technical riffing and rapid‑fire drumming that back lyrics about consequence, resilience, and hard‑earned lessons. While most of the record is a full‑throttle assault meant for circle pits and raised fists, DevilDriver weave in moments of eerie melody and dynamic contrast—“In the Moonlight” introduces clean vocals and soaring guitarmonies, and “Summoning Shadows” uses acoustic textures and a near‑ballad structure before the band crashes back in, underscoring the more personal, reflective tone of Fafara’s writing on this release. By the time closer “All Bets Are Off” collapses into ringing silence, Strike And Kill feels less like a stylistic reinvention than a sharpened, hungry return to form: a carnivorous reboot of the classic DevilDriver sound that channels years of struggle into savage, tightly written modern metal.