Groove metal legends DevilDriver return with their beastly 11th album "Strike and Kill"

After numerous worldwide tours, ten full-length albums and worldwide recognition, the relentless groove metal legends, DevilDriver, remain at full speed ahead in the second decade of their prime. Today, the band announces its explosive eleventh full-length album, “Strike and Kill”, which will be released on July 10, 2026 via Napalm Records. With the all-star lineup of frontman and mastermind Dez Fafara, the virtuoso guitar duo Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold, the explosive drummer Davier Ortega Perez and the return of founding bass legend Jon Miller, “Strike and Kill” sees DevilDriver return to their carnivorous origins, reigniting the incendiary sound that founded their legacy, a song everyone in the genre must hear.

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Dez Fafara on “Strike and Kill” :

“My mind hasn’t changed, I haven’t become complacent or soft in my view of the world or in my music. Metal is our outlet as listeners and composers, so on this record we focused on “getting it all out” lyrically and supporting those lyrics with fierce, nonstop music that fuels heavy California groove like nothing else. DevilDriver never sounded like any other band, we do our thing our way and I’m very proud of that.”

” I’m so proud of these musicians, this music and the atmosphere around this album. DevilDriver sounds like no one else out there right now, we’re here to strike and kill!”

Alongside today’s announcement, they unleash the album’s ferocious opening track onto the masses. “Dig Your Own Grave” , which made its debut yesterday on SXM’s Liquid Metal, is a caustic attack of machine-gun riffs and uncompromising aggression, that lyrically attacks the fools responsible for their own unwanted fate. Full of piss and vinegar, this is DevilDriver at maximum savagery, giving listeners a taste of the untold slaughter that awaits on “Strike and Kill”.

About the track, the band’s mastermind, Dez Fafara, states:

“‘ Dig Your Own Grave’ is about how one wrong decision, one wrong move can overturn your entire world, essentially “digging” your own grave… it’s that simple.”

” It can also refer to how your decisions can endanger someone else. That’s why there’s the phrase “the one-yard hole isn’t deep enough for you”, because only a deep, very 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.”

Watch the official music video for “Dig Your Own Grave” HERE

Pre-order your copy of “Strike and Kill” HERE

After DevilDriver‘s defining double album, “Dealing With Demons Vols. 1” and 2, which defined their career —with “Vol. 1” sitting at #1 on metal radio stations for a triumphant 15 weeks, and “Vol. 2” celebrated by internationally recognized outlets like Metal Injection, Kerrang! and Blabbermouth, which praised the “you can’t stop the unstoppable” — the band embarks on a manic hunt with “Strike and Kill”, holding the sword at your throat and serving that signature DevilDriver mix of melodeath elegance, blackened atmosphere, tectonic rhythms and Fafara’s iconic visceral delivery.

Without wasting time, the album erupts with the incendiary “Dig Your Own Grave” , a storm of kicks and crunchy riffs surrounding the listener, throwing them into the waiting abyss, before moving on to “Dead in the Water” , showcasing the vivid melodeath tapestries of the virtuoso guitar duo Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold. “Sanctified In Scars” applies industrial pulsing rhythms and ethereal sonic textures, sanctifying Fafara’s venomous voice with blackened excellence in tremolo. The album’s title track, “Strike and Kill”, is a reconciliation of the difficulties and lessons learned, built on the foundations of explosively technical riffs and vertiginously fast drumming by Davier Perez. Tracks like “In the Moonlight” and “Never Coming Home” wrap listeners in serene, happy guitar melodies, elevating the barbarity with elegance and emotion. “Ride or Die” unleashes pure metallic inertia, pulling listeners along with relentless force. Showing their technical edge with tracks like “Headed for the Fall” and “You’re just a Ghost” , the band adopts incredibly strange patterns that turn listeners’ heads. “Summoning Shadows” offers the album its biggest respite from the slaughter, with acoustic guitar textures creating tension before the band returns with triumphant force. “Shut the Silence On” and “Oath of Iron” become exceptionally thrashy with their bold riffs and blast beats, before “All Bets are Off” brings things to a cataclysmic end.

“Strike and Kill” will be available in the following formats:

1-CD Digipak
1-LP Gatefold Vinyl SOLID BLUE
1-LP Gatefold Vinyl TRANSLUCENT GREEN – Napalm Records mailorder exclusive
1-LP Gatefold Vinyl SPLATTERED (incl. 24-page LP-size booklet, Certificate, Cover) – Napalm Records mailorder exclusive
1-LP Gatefold Vinyl WHITE LABEL (incl. 24-page LP-size booklet, Certificate) – Napalm Records mailorder exclusive
1-LP Gatefold Vinyl SOLID ORANGE – Independent Product exclusive
Digital Album

Track list for “Strike and Kill”:

1 Dig Your Own Grave

2 Dead in the Water

3 Sanctified In Scars

4 Strike and Kill

5 In the Moonlight

6 Ride or Die

7 Headed for the Fall

8 Shut the Silence On

9 Never Coming Home

10 Summoning Shadows

11 You’re just a Ghost

12 Oath of Iron

13 All Bets are Off

In addition, DevilDriver will tour the western United States with Upon A Burning Body and Ov Sulfur . Starting on August 14 in San Diego, California, the Strike and Kill North American Tour 2026 will cross major cities, such as Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada, before its impressive conclusion on September 5 in sunny Anaheim, California. Artist presale is LIVE NOW, see below for a full list of dates and the artist presale code: