Mammoth year for DevilDriver, so they dropped Strike & Kill last month. In May, the pilot himself Dez Fafara turned 60, his Portuguese/Italian tattoo bodysuit documenting a lifetime of musical warfare. Next year, the Santa Barbara metal/core fivepiece notches a quarter-century, with original bassist Jon Miller still playing enforcer. The maniacal blue hyena on the cover of this new 11th full-length bottles its savage bark-n-bite in a staccato song list as fast, furious, and explosive as a desert disembowelment. That cabin-in-the-woods siding at Come & Take It Live will come in handy for this four-band blowout. Horns up! – Raoul Hernandez