“We recorded a bunch of interviews and behind the scenes footage when we were making the video for ‘Dig Your Own Grave’,” begins an update from DevilDriver. “Check out part five featuring our singer Dez Fafara – on YouTube now!”
About the track, band mastermind Dez Fafara states: “‘Dig Your Own Grave’ is about how one wrong decision, one wrong move can see your whole world turned upside down, effectively ‘digging’ your own grave… it’s that simple. It can also refer to how your decisions can fuck someone else. This is why there’s the line ‘six feet ain’t deep enough for you’, because only a deep, deep hole is fitting for what you’ve done or tried to do to others. Be careful when you choose to make decisions at midnight.”
Parts one through four, featuring guitarist Gabe Mangold, bassist Jon Miller, guitarist Alex Lee, and drummer Davier Pérez, can be seen below.
DevilDriver’s new album, Strike And Kill, is out July 10 via Napalm Records.
Following DevilDriver’s career-defining double album Dealing With Demons Vols. 1 & 2 – with Vol. 1 sitting at #1 at U.S. metal radio for a triumphant 15 weeks, and Vol. 2 celebrated by internationally revered outlets, Strike And Kill finds the band at their most focused and ferocious, zeroing in with predatory precision and delivering that trademark DevilDriver blend of melodeath elegance, blackened atmosphere, tectonic grooves, and Fafara’s iconic visceral delivery.
Wasting no time, the album bursts open with the incendiary “Dig Your Own Grave”; a punishing volley of assault-rifle kicks and crunchy riffs that seize the listener by the collar and refuse to let go, before sieging into “Dead In The Water”, which showcases the vibrant melo-death tapestries of guitar duo Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold. “Sanctified In Scars” deploys industrial beats and ethereal textures, wrapping Fafara’s venomous voice in blackened tremolo excellence. The album’s title track “Strike And Kill” is a reconciliation of hardships and lessons learned, built on the backs of blistering technical riffage and dizzying drumwork from Davier Perez. Tracks like “In The Moonlight” and “Never Coming Home” envelop listeners in serenely blissful guitarmonies, elevating the brutality with elegance and emotion. “Ride Or Die” hits like a freight train and doesn’t let up. Tracks like “Headed For The Fall” and “You’re Just A Ghost” exemplify the band’s technical edge, embracing mind-bendingly off-kilter patterns. “Summoning Shadows” offers the album’s longest moment of stillness, with textured acoustic guitars coiling ever tighter before the band detonates. “Shut The Silence On” and “Oath Of Iron” rip forward with thrash energy and blast beats, before “All Bets Are Off” brings everything to a suitably cataclysmic conclusion.
Strike and Kill will be available in the following formats:
– 1CD Digipak
– 1LP Gatefold Vinyl Solid Blue
– 1LP Gatefold Vinyl Translucent Verde – Napalm Records Mailorder Exclusive
– 1LP Gatefold Vinyl Splattered (incl. LP-Sized Booklet 24 pages, Certificate, Covercard) – Napalm Records Mailorder Exclusive
– 1LP Gatefold Vinyl White Label (incl. LP-Sized Booklet 24 pages, Certificate) – Napalm Records Mailorder Exclusive
– 1LP Gatefold Vinyl Solid Orange – Indie Merch Exclusive
– Digital Album
Pre-order Strike And Kill here.
Strike And Kill Tracklisting:
“Dig Your Own Grave”
“Dead In The Water”
“Sanctified In Scars”
“Strike And Kill”
“In The Moonlight”
“Ride Or Die”
“Headed For The Fall”
“Shut The Silence On”
“Never Coming Home”
“Summoning Shadows”
“You’re Just A Ghost”
“Oath Of Iron”
“All Bets Are Off”
“Dead In The Water” video:
Additionally, DevilDriver will be touring across the western United States with Upon A Burning Body and Ov Sulfur. Kicking off August 14 in San Diego, CA, the Strike and Kill North American Tour 2026 will hit a slough of major cities including Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno, NV before its thunderous conclusion on September 5 in sunny Anaheim, CA.
Tour dates:
August
14 – San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park
15 – Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
16 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee
18 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
19 – Austin, TX – Come and Take It Live
20 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
22 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
23 – Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
25 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
26 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
29 – Colorado Springs, CO – Sunshine Studios
30 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
September
1 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
2 – Reno, NV – Club Underground
3 – Sacramento, CA – Goldfield
4 – San Jose, CA – The Ritz
5 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
(Photo – Stephanie Cabral)
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