REVIEW: Rev3rent - She Let the World Run Rampant [2026]

Artist: Rev3rent

Album: She Let the World Run Rampant

Since the MySpace deathcore revival movement began in the early 2020s, I’ve been—generally—an apologist for the entire sound and style. After all, the style offered a rose-tinted blast-from-the-past for people like myself who fell in love with that style of music in the early 2000s when it first gained popularity—and it just so happened to come roaring back at a time where contemporary deathcore was being kept afloat by precious few bands. With that said, one can only tolerate so many hackneyed attempts at The Cleansing 2.0 and so many blatant forgeries of “It’s Not Safe to Swim Today” before the movement—previously a breeding ground for fun, energetic, eviscerating deathcore—begins to cannibalize itself, forced to either desperately attempt to follow the few bands of that style that have transcended revivalism to make something intriguing and rewarding or continue to rehash 2008 sounds in a 2000-and-late fashion.

Enter Rev3rent, the crown jewel of the bustling California revival deathcore scene. Garnering immense recognition and momentum off of their breakout EPs Last Trace and Decimate, their back-to-back nationwide tours and prompt signing to Atlantic subsidiary Deep Love Recordings was essentially a foregone conclusion. Now, on the precipice of their debut full length record, She Let the World Run Rampant, the band are geared up to take the biggest leap yet for the MySpace deathcore revival thus far—it’s just a shame that they don’t stick the landing.

She Let the World Run Rampant is a colossal 13-track undertaking for Rev3rent, and in spite of its shortcomings (to follow), it does have its respective high points. The band are technically talented—She Let the World Run Rampant is home to lacerating blast beats, an excellent vocal range and the occasional razor-sharp riff delivered in an excellently produced package. “Eyes Wide Shut” is one such example, a song that oscillates from bounce-heavy opening groove to skin-rending speed and machine-gun blast beats in a fashion that would make mid-2000s Whitechapel blush. The album’s interlude, “Neural Plague” is another solid venture that captures a perfect snapshot of idyllic, bouncy deathcore done deviously well, alongside closing cut “The 97th Floor,” a song that balances vocal mastery with a eerie, almost melancholic closing salvo that feels distinctly unlike anything else on She Let the World Run Rampant. These segments see Rev3rent feverishly grasping at a success that seems perpetually within sight but, unfortunately, just out of reach for a great majority of the record’s runtime.

With moments of relative strength (and also profound weakness—more to come) throughout She Let the World Run Rampant, where Rev3rent spend most of their time on their debut LP is somewhere in the middle—impotent indifference. Much of She Let the World Run Rampant seems to be a less refined focus on revivalism than that which defined Last Trace and Decimate. Where the band’s two EPs seemed intensely focused on replicating a select few sounds from deathcore’s early days (Desolation of Eden and The Cleansing, mostly), most of She Let the World Run Rampant just exists as a grab bag of material rehashed from legacy deathcore acts. A jaded and trite way to think through some of their songs—especially the record’s title track—is as a hodge hodge of parts borrowed from other, older bands and thrown into a random order. “Whitechapel riff followed by Suicide Silence blast part followed by Oceano breakdown” crossed my mind more than once in my several listens through She Let the World Run Rampant, with some of the stronger songs perhaps only sounding stronger because they borrow more heavily from less-copied bands (oh, a Float Face Down part! What a treat!) And sure—you could make a very reasonable argument that this isn’t any different from the band’s early material, or from just about any other revival-type band, and I would concede that you’re probably right—and realistically, it doesn’t stop parts of the record from being fun, but it certainly stops it from being anything noteworthy. With that said, 30+ minutes spent rehashing breakdowns from almost twenty years ago ends up being the least bothersome thing on Rev3rent’s plate.

With this style of deathcore, borrowing from older bands and styles is not only expected, it’s the point—and for all the joking about The Cleansing 2.0 that goes on, everyone who keeps listening to it (myself included) knows exactly what they’re (we’re) signing up for. Where certain elements of She Let the World Run Rampant are certainly a product of revivalism, certain elements are borrowed just as heavily—but from current peers of the band. Songs like lead single “Last One Here,” alongside “Our Fatal End,” “To Dematerialize the Womb” and “Project Ascension” feel as though they could essentially have been crafted by PSYCHO-FRAME throwaways stitched together with the same irreverent interpolation of legacy acts that has defined Rev3rent’s success thus far. This comes in various forms—where gentle influence and inspiration was used to create “To Dematerialize the Womb,” parts of “Our Fatal End” and “Last One Here” are almost direct PSYCHO-FRAME interpolations (“New Jack Eradication, is that you?). These no doubt started as attempts to transcend revival deathcore, but end up sounding less referential and more like imitations—well done imitations, but imitations all the same.

The punchline is that Rev3rent have made attempts to double down on revivalism while stretching themselves in an attempt to transcend it at the same time, making neither aspect of their sound convincing or robust enough to withstand even mild scrutiny. The 2000s riffs, breakdowns and stomps aren’t hitting quite as hard—and the attempts at overcoming the self-imposed confines of “revival deathcore band” comes across equal parts desperate and contrived. For every interesting moment on She Let the World Run Rampant there are at least two that fail to instill any real motivation to keep the listener engaged in the release—and likely at least one moment that sees the band perhaps drawing a little too heavily from greats within the genre both past and present. In spite of this, the kids are going to be alright, and Rev3rent are proof of this. She Let the World Run Rampant is the first big step in a promising future for the band—a future that will hopefully see them continue to rise—but hopefully more on their own merit and less on that of their predecessors and peers.

4/10

For Fans Of: Whitechapel, Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, PSYCHO-FRAME

By: Connor Welsh