Bootleg

In our never-ending quest to give you, the reader, the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series.

This installment is an as-yet-unreleased cut from doom metallers Minsk, off their forthcoming new album, With Echoes in the Movement of Stone (Relapse), which hits stores Tuesday, May 26.

This installment is an as-yet-unreleased cut from thrash-metal upstarts Warbringer, off their forthcoming new album, Waking into Nightmares (Century Media), which comes out Tuesday, May 19.

This installment is a rare live version of the song “Pump Fake” by sludgecore misanthropes 16, from the Japanese CD release of their latest album, Bridges to Burn (Relapse).

This installment is an as-yet-unreleased cut from progressive death-metal upstarts Dååth, off their forthcoming new album, The Concealers (Century Media), which doesn’t hit stores until April 21.

This installment is a previously unreleased cover of NYHC legends Sick of It All’s song “No Cure” by San Francisco hardcore outfit First Blood.

This installment is a cut by “death-trance” droners Sunn O))). Click through to listen to/download the song and to read what guitarist Greg Anderson has to say about what makes the track so unique and hard to find.

This installment is a non-album cut by stoner-rock-influenced Canadian metalcore group Cancer Bats. A cover of “Agenda Suicide” by Nebraskan neo-new-wavers The Faint, the song almost made the Bats’ latest, Hail Destroyer (Metal Blade).

Longtime Revolver readers will remember a thing we used to do in the mag called "The Unit." It involved inviting a band to come into our office and write/record an original tune in just one-to-three hours