All Hail Our New Masters: REVOCATION’s New Album Is A Ripper

Revocation has had a thoroughly interesting past decade-ish. Their 2016 record Great Is Our Sin was a straight-up thrash-terpiece, while The Outer Ones in 2018 took a hard turn into some otherworldly death metal. Then came the sinister vile-ness that was Netherheaven in 2022, which is followed by the band’s newest album New Gods, New Masters – a seeming marriage of everything Revocation has ever done up to this point.

New Gods, New Masters feels like a retrospective of Revocation‘s career filtered through their most recent material. You’ve got death metal ragers like “Sarcophagi Of The Soul” and “Dystopian Vermin” alongside some extreme metal legends bringing an added layer of chaos to the mix – “Confines Of Infinity” featuring Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation, “Cronenberged” featuring Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy, and “Buried Epoch” featuring Luc Lemay of Gorguts.

Or to put it a little more bluntly: New Gods, New Masters is fucking heavy. If you’re into the groovier and chunkier side of Revocation that flirts with wrist-breaking technicality, this is your album.

Then there’s the instrumental “The All Seeing” featuring jazz player Gilad Hekselman, who played with Pat Metheny at The Kennedy Center. This one’s over five minutes of riffs upon riffs that all fall together into a masterclass of not only how to write an instrumental, but for any guitarist serious about their instrument. And no – there’s no big band jazz section that panders to Hekselman. This song just shreds.

New Gods, New Masters is impressive in that it’s everything you’d want from Revocation at this point, but a little more streamlined. This feels a little less technical than its predecessors and more concentrated on the power of writing a good riff and a great groove. Longtime Revocation fans are sure to find something to love here, but new fans are certainly going to find a solid entry point into the band’s extensive discography here as well.

Pre-order New Gods, New Masters right here.