The band is currently on a North American co-headlining tour with The Atomic Bitchwax
Crobot are back with a brand new song, “Gun to My Head.” The track is the lead single from the Pennsylvania hard rock outfit’s soon-to-be announced sixth album. The all-new “Gun to My Head” features the debut of a new rhythm section that includes brothers Willie Jansen (bass, vocals) and Nico Jansen (drums, percussion), who make the band’s pulse sound downright dangerous again — thick, swinging, and impossible to fake.
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On October 24, Crobot launched a co-headlining tour with The Atomic Bitchwax. The Bastards of the Holy Riff Tour kicked off at The Lost Horizon in Syracuse, New York and will see both bands make stops in Detroit, Denver, Vancouver, Dallas, Anaheim, New Orleans, and more before wrapping up on November 23 at Milkboy in Philadelphia. Check out the full tour itinerary below.
Every band says they’re “getting back to their roots.” Most of them mean they’re out of ideas. Crobot mean it like a blood oath. They’ve stripped it all down to the muscle and marrow, rediscovering that holy intersection where Sabbath’s weight meets Funkadelic’s freak, where Clutch’s swagger shakes hands in the Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic Chili-Peppers era. This isn’t nostalgia — it’s resurrection. The past few years have sanded off a lot of pretense. What’s left is a band that’s learned how to breathe again, how to groove again, how to trust the dirt under their boots. They’ve been through the industry grinder, the touring trenches, the ego traps, and the inner wars — and somehow came out grinning wider, riffing harder, and sounding more alive than they have in a decade.
That rebirth roars to life on “Gun to My Head,” the first shot fired from their upcoming album. It’s Crobot at their most unfiltered — hook-heavy, groove-drenched, and thick with the kind of swagger that makes amps sweat. The song’s chorus swings like a pendulum between surrender and salvation, the sound of four musicians testing their own limits and finding freedom on the other side. It’s not about violence — it’s about the pressure of transformation, the push and pull between love, truth, and the kind of pain that forces you to evolve.
“Sometimes you’re forced to take a step back and reflect on what really matters,” explains frontman Brandon Yeagley. “Every note has a reason, every word a purpose. We’re etching something in-blood into the Crobot discography – and ‘Gun to My Head’ felt like the best taste of what’s to come.”
Crobot’s last LP Obsidian arrived on September 13, 2024 through Megaforce Records. It marked the band’s first release on the iconic label. The album was anchored by the lead single “Come Down,” which saw guitarist Chris Bishop channel his inner Tony Iommi with brooding, jackhammer riffs and frontman Brandon Yeagley giving yet another soaring vocal performance. The song was co-written and brought to the band by former drummer Dan Ryan.
Produced by Crobot, recorded at The Machine Shop Studios in Austin, TX, and engineered, mixed, and mastered by Alberto De Icaza, the 12 tracks on Obsidian dive into the deep, murky waters of the human condition, threading ancient myths with personal demons across its tracks.
“As we started demoing songs,“ guitarist Chris Bishop explains, “the music was being pushed more and more into a heavier, darker, more metal direction. ‘Come Down’ is one of the heaviest songs that we’ve done, it’s much more in the world of Alice in Chains. Dan, our drummer, comes from that world, and we didn’t try to stifle that, so the new music is a lot heavier than our previous albums.”
“‘Obsidian,’ the title track, went through many different structures,” Bishop explains, “but it was never quite right. So, we put it on hold and hit up Howard Jones, who used to play in Killswitch Engage and is now in Light the Torch. We told him that we had the album’s title, Obsidian, but not the title track, sent him the tune, and he came back with some ideas that were perfect. So, we rolled with that; Brandon put his spin on Howard’s ideas, and we brought Howard into the circle of being in Crobot for that one song.”
While the band’s primary songwriters – Bishop and Yeagley – tend to leave their songs somewhat ambiguous, the upcoming album’s new tunes touch upon very personal growth, conflicts, and reflections. “Each song descends into the darker reaches of the psyche,” Bishop says, “set to a relentless rhythm of heavy, pulsing beats and gut-wrenching guitar solos, and offers a stark reflection of internal struggles.”
“‘Obsidian’ is almost a rebirth of our career,” Brandon adds. “We were able to take a different approach to the writing and recording of this album, so the experience was very rewarding and different from past projects. Conflicts and reflections make you a better person, even in those darker moments, but I know I became a better person for it. I think that’s what symbolizes this entire album for us. It’s been a real breath of fresh air.”
Last July, Crobot came out with a groovy cover of pop star Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit, “Black Cat.” In 2022, they released their last full-length studio LP, Feel This. Anchored by the lead single “Better Times,” the album also features prime Crobot cuts like “Dizzy,” “Golden,” and more. The band released Feel This and its predecessor Motherbrain (2019) through Mascot Label Group.
Crobot’s sophomore effort, 2016’s Welcome to Fat City, peaked at No. 16 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart.
