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A Living Legacy
WHEN I IMAGINE MY dream kitchen, I see a simple, 1970s-style kitchen that reminds me of my childhood. But rather than seeing my mother, aunts, and sisters, I am there as part of a constellation of other Black women like me, drawn to the legacy of Edna Lewis. Carla Hall, the chef, television host, and cookbook author, slides corn kernels from their cobs while the lima beans she shelled earlier simmer on the stove.
POPPY on the creative friction and brutal honesty fueling her wildest album yet 'Empty Hands'
Relentless curiosity has always been Poppy’s greatest superpower — the spark behind every wild, unexpected turn she’s made. “The coolest thing to do is to like a lot of things and be inspired by a lot of things and always want to know more,” she says.
DAVE MUSTAINE on final MEGADETH album, METALLICA cover, CLINT EASTWOOD inspiration
Dave Mustaine is coughing up blood. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into my conversation with Megadeth’s larger-than-life leader, but I wasn’t expecting to see something so human. You probably know the story by now. Mustaine has, over four decades, ascended into the god-tier ranks of metal’s elite. He helped create the blueprint for technical thrash-metal riffing, catapulted his band to worldwide-phenomenon status and built an invincible touring machine.
The Devil Wears Prada Guitarist
The 2025 Summer of Loud festival seemed like a who's who of metalcore all on one bill, but perhaps the biggest name involved was one not instantly recognizable to most music fans. While speaking with Full Metal Jackie for her weekend radio show, The Devil Wears Prada's Jeremy DePoyster was quick to shout out Dave Shapiro's impact not only on the festival but metalcore as a whole. Shapiro was a music agent known for championing some of the most well known acts in metalcore.
TURNSTILE broke big in 2025, and they brought their friends and fans with them
The night after they played to what looked like the entire population of Brooklyn at NYC venue Under the K Bridge, I had a dream that Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates bought a forest. Each member of the band — guitarists Pat McCrory and Meg Mills, bassist Franz Lyonsand drummer Daniel Fang — lived in a sprawling treehouse like we were on Endor, with Yates excitedly telling me they were figuring out how to start building more houses for their friends to move in, and eventually fans.
Regional Mexican artist RÉGULO CARO on Dia De Los Deftones invite: "it's surreal"
“For me, rock was all about white people. I didn’t even know that there were Latinos in the rock scene,” says regional Mexican artist Régulo Caro. “When I heard Deftones it was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a guy named Chino Moreno in the band, and it sounded so mixed, so Mexican, so familiar.’” As wild as the 2025 Dia De Los Deftones lineup is, perhaps no performer sticks out more than Caro — even Moreno describes him as “a curveball.” However, for Caro himself, his appearance feels like destiny.
CHVRCHES' LAUREN MAYBERRY: "DEFTONES always felt really not gatekeep-y"
In the lead-up to this weekend’s Dia De Los Deftones festival in San Diego, California, Revolver reached out to some of the heaviest hitters from Dias past — including CHVRCHES vocalist Lauren Mayberry —to reflect on Deftones and their annual music celebration. What do Deftones mean to you? Lauren Mayberry I think, as a fan, something I really loved about Deftones is that they never felt like they really fit into a specific scene.
Dia De Los Deftones 2025: How RICO NASTY got a 'LETHAL' upgrade
Rico Nasty is watching Upgrade when Revolver calls, and the irony isn’t lost on us. The 2018 sci-fi film follows a protagonist who reboots themselves into a killing machine after suffering trauma, which is essentially Rico’s origin story for her latest era. In 2023, the Maryland rapper knew she had to start over, so she fired her entire management team after they consistently tried to box her into music that she had no interest in making. “I literally crawled from under rocks,” she says.
Meet UNIVERSITY: US upstarts head to Dia De Los Deftones with onstage Xbox player
When UNIVERSITY pops up on video to chat, the Crewe, U.K., band look like a visual embodiment of their music: chain-smoking joints, piled on top of each other in a way-too-small room covered in giant emoji posters. “We’re from a shithole and we learned how to play in this tiny house in a really crappy town with no venues or anything like that,” says drummer Joel Smith.
DEFTONES CHINO MORENO on next-gen rapper-singer 2HOLLIS: "Like nothing else"
If there’s one performer at this year’s Dia De Los Deftones that’s going to make old-school Deftones fans feels positively ancient, it’ll be 2hollis. The 21-year-old rapper-singer-producer has crafted his own world of music since first releasing songs as a teenager — a world that includes self-aware and unabashed references to Minecraft, deadmau5, Berlin techno, black metal and mid-Aughts trap — all while looking like Final Fantasy villain Sephiroth if he’d retired and become a Balenciaga model.
JPEGMAFIA hails DEFTONES: "They’re a band who knows how to age well"
In the lead-up to this weekend’s Dia De Los Deftones festival in San Diego, California, Revolver reached out to some of the heaviest hitters from Dias past — including rapper JPEGMAFIA — to reflect on Deftones and their annual music celebration. What was your relationship with Deftones before playing their festival? JPEGMAFIA I love Deftones, and they've always been a band that I listen to. When I played the festival that they booked me on, I had no idea that they even knew who I was.
PHANTOGRAM reflect on playing Dia De Los Deftones: "That was the best day of my life"
In the lead-up to this weekend’s Dia De Los Deftones festival in San Diego, California, Revolver reached out to some of the heaviest hitters from Dias past — including Phantogram's Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter — to reflect on Deftones and their annual music celebration. Any memorable moments from playing Dia De Los Deftones? Sarah Barthel I remember losing my hearing permanently. Every single time I go to sleep at night, my left ear rings, and it reminds me of that night.
How a chance encounter with CHINO MORENO helped ECCA VANDAL land on Dia De Los Deftones
If you were online at the top of the year, chances are high you watched Ecca Vandal screaming her lungs out on “CRUISING TO SELF SOOTHE” in one — or maybe all — of your friends’ Instagram stories. Singing in a skatepark atop a kid’s mini train ride, the South African-born, Australia-based artist captured so much in a short burst: angst, confusion, exuberance, affirmation.
GLARE talk TikTok virality, DEFTONES comparisons and Dia De Los Deftones slot
“I’d rather do anything else than talk about shoegaze. Let’s just make good shoegaze.” So says Homero Solis, bassist of Rio Grande Valley, Texas’ Glare, one of the fastest-rising bands leading the genre’s new generation and an unintended touchpoint for the terminally online. The numbers don’t lie: nearly a million monthly listeners on Spotify, and over 20,000 TikTok videos have used their song “Void in Blue” as a soundtrack.
GOJIRA's JOE DUPLANTIER hails DEFTONES: a unicorn in the music industry
In the lead-up to Dia De Los Deftones 2025, Revolver reached out to some of the heaviest hitters from Dias past — including Gojira’s Joe Duplantier —to reflect on Deftones and their annual music celebration. What was it like playing Dia De Los Deftones? Joe Duplantier It was an honor being invited by a band that we appreciate so much. When you do your own festival, you invite the bands that you really like, so that says something about them. They’re very open-minded.
How THE PRETTY WILD turned a viral "mosh cough" moment into a movement
“No one is truly ever an overnight success,” says the Pretty Wild’s Jules Wylde. The singer speaks from experience. In 2024, her Las Vegas band — which she fronts with her sister and co-vocalist Jyl — dropped the infectious nu-core single “sLeepwALKeR.” The track quickly caught fire on TikTok, its pre-breakdown “mosh cough” fueling thousands of fan-made “coughcore” clips and helping the song rack up millions of streams.
SEETHER on DAUGHTRY tour, DEFTONES resurgence, 25-year legacy and more
"When we started out, we were angry and loud and chaotic. Just a bunch of 20-year-old angry idiots getting drunk and making as much noise as we possibly could. Now we're middle-aged idiots getting drunk and angry and making noise." Dale Stewart, bassist of post-grunge mainstays Seether, has had a pretty remarkable career over the last quarter century.
How PEELINGFLESH are bringing slam death metal to rap and EDM fans
“We always say that slam is gangster rap — rap and slam are hand in hand.” This is the commandment Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh live by, according to vocalist Damonteal Harris. Throw on “Perc 3000” off their debut full-length, The G Code, and you’ll hear Project Pat sampled over an ignorant, guttural breakdown, before a record scratch sends everything into a fever pitch — and it’s hard not to have an aha moment.
ARCHITECTS' SAM CARTER on greatest successes, worst shows, biggest fanboy moments and more Original
Architects have been knocked down and rebuilt — only to come back stronger every time. Since forming in 2004, the English band has undergone one of modern metalcore’s most intense evolutions — rising from punk kids playing breakdowns in Brighton to becoming a global force that’s opened for Metallica and headlined Bloodstock Open Air.
The rise of BILMURI: SLEEP TOKEN-approved country metalcore made in 'Murica
Sipping beers on a riding lawn mower. Hailing the Buckeye State. Aching about failed relationships amidst a flurry of massive country choruses, fiery fiddle solos and bouncy metal breakdowns. Muscles popping out of sleeveless American flag shirts, and a peak-U.S.A., go-for-the-gold mindset of “cranking hog.” Welcome to the weird world of Bilmuri — the countrified metalcore solo project of songwriter Johnny Franck.
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