Devlin is returning to Dublin for an 18+ headline show at the Grand Social on Wednesday, April 24.

If being an outcast means to live on the fringes, refusing to follow the herd, Devlin might be the defintion of the word. The mercurial MC, 15 years into a career that’s spanned gold-selling albums and Top 10 hits without straying from his underground roots, has never been interested in trends, a fact underlined on his take-no-prisoners grime riot of a new record.

“I called it The Outcast ‘cos I just do me. I’ve never really been ‘in’ or part of something bigger than myself. I’m not like anything else out there. I play by my own rules. It’s not me to be a sheep,” said Devlin in a press statement.

The album is made up of 13 breathless tracks. It’s a lean, mean musical Molotov cocktail that, after the emotional purge of 2017’s acclaimed The Devil In, sees the 29-year-old returns to the punishing high-velocity flows and menacing beats of his early days.

Tickets for the event go on sale March 1 at 10 a.m. on Ticketmaster and will be €16.45.