Devil’s Cut’s nuanced country-metal mélange began with a 2018 conversation with their manager, Jelly Roll drummer Cody Ash. Fellow Kentuckian Ash was convinced that merging the genres was the future and together they set about convincingly marrying their twin musical passions without compromising either. Devil’s Cut hinted at what was coming with a muscular 2019 cover of Dan + Shay’s country smash “Tequila” and had really found their lane by the time 2022’s “Insomnia” became a TikTok hit. With their sound rapidly evolving and commercial momentum gathering, Devil’s Cut racked up millions of streams while touring with everyone from country/metal chanteuse Royale Lynn to metalcore mainstays Attila, plus adrenalized sets at metal’s flagship mega-fests Aftershock, Welcome To Rockville and Louder Than Life.

Taking a page from the country playbook, Devil’s Cut dramatically raised their game by relocating to Nashville for a month and collaborating with experienced co-writers to spawn the hard-to-resist Roadkill (MNRK Music Group /April 24, 2026). Produced by Evan McKeever (Miranda Lambert, Starset), it delivers rowdy party anthems and heartworn laments with equal aplomb, Landrum’s lived-in timbre distinguished by his innate country cadence and everyman lyrics. Listen carefully and there’s lap steel, mandolin, and banjo in there, but as tastefully morphed, almost subliminal samples that help set Devil’s Cut apart.

“Roadkill is two totally different ends of the spectrum,” laughed Landrum. “Either sad, I-want-to-cry songs or ‘hey man, I want to have a beer and shoot guns in the woods with my friends’!”

As country as it gets / Hundred down a dirt road / Southern born & bred / Reload with my eyes closed implores Landrum on Roadkill’s fist-pumpin’ first single and album opener “Drink With The Devil.” The title track and second single is a TikTok-targeted relationship song that leans into resurgent “dad rock” with a youthful vengeance, while follow-up “Drop Dead (End)” skews industrial like a redneck Rob Zombie. Every Roadkill track will have its own video and Devil’s Cut will be spending much of 2026 on the road, winning yet more fans with their all-in-this-together, put-a-drink-up live show