DEVILDRIVER have released a music video for "Strike And Kill," the title track from their upcoming album of the same name, due out July 10, 2026 via Napalm Records.
The track finds frontman Dez Fafara exploring the consequences of impulsive decisions made under emotional duress. "Strike And Kill is a song about individuals that have to learn lessons the hard way," Fafara said. "Beware the moves you make at midnight behind emotion." The video accompanies the song's aggressive tone with imagery built around that same theme of reckoning and consequence.
"Strike And Kill" will mark DEVILDRIVER's latest full-length under Fafara, who continues to front the California groove/death metal outfit alongside drummer Davier Ortega Perez, bassist Jon Miller and guitarists Alex Lee and Gabe Mangold. The album spans 13 tracks, including another cut previewed ahead of release, "Dig Your Own Grave," about which Fafara offered a similarly blunt warning: "One wrong decision, one wrong move can see your whole world turned upside down, effectively digging your own grave."
Summing up the record's identity, Fafara didn't hold back: "DEVILDRIVER sounds like no one else out there right now, we are here to strike and kill!"
The band will support the album with a North American headlining tour beginning August 14 in San Diego and running through September 5 in Anaheim, with support from UPON A BURNING BODY and OV SULFUR across the run.
Since forming in 2002 as an offshoot of Fafara's previous band COAL CHAMBER, DEVILDRIVER has built a reputation on relentless touring and a sound that blends death metal aggression with groove-driven riffing, with albums like "The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand" and "Winter Kills" cementing the band's standing in the genre. With "Strike And Kill" arriving just days after this video and a full U.S. run already booked, the band shows no signs of slowing its pace nearly a quarter-century into its run.
The "Strike And Kill" video gives fans an early taste of an album that, based on Fafara's own description, aims to reassert the band's identity at a moment when groove metal's old guard continues to prove its staying power on stage and on record alike.