Gouge Away, Pain of Truth & More Added to Taco Bell’s Feed the Beat 2025

For someone who eats as much Taco Bell as I do, I’m surprised I didn’t realize the fast food chain’s Feed the Beat shit was still going on. I’ve spent too much time in Crunchwrap comas, I guess. Anyway, Taco Bell and Feed the Beat has revealed their 2025 class of winners, and there are some pretty heavy names in there.

Among them are the hardcore stylings of Gouge Away and Gridiron, Pain of Truth‘s beatdown intensity, and L.S. Dunes, the scene supergroup comprised of members from Circa Survive, My Chemical Romance, Coheed and Cambria, and Thursday.

Feed the Beat started back in 2006, meant to support touring musicians by giving them a $500 Taco Bell gift card for free. If you’ve ever been on tour before, you know how much of difference this could make. Sometimes Taco Bell will even feature some of the artists in their nonsensical commercials (like really, has a Taco Bell commercial ever made sense to you?), as you may recall from the time’s when Mannequin Pussy and Turnstile soundtracked them in past years.

I’m not sure if more awardees will be announced, but this is certainly a good round to start with.

The heavier 2025 additions include:

Archetypes Collide
Common Sage
End It
Gouge Away
Gridiron
L.S. Dunes
Magnolia Park
Pain Of Truth
Restraining Order
Spaced