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Revolver was founded by Tom Beaujour and Brad Tolinski and first published in the spring of 2000 under Harris Publications. The pair had previously worked together at Guitar World, where Beaujour had been hired by Tolinski as an intern in 1993.
Harris Publications cancelled the original Revolver after its fifth issue in May/June 2001. Beaujour and Tolinski attributed the failure to a lack of editorial direction, problems with its writers, and the high cost of those writers.
The relaunched, metal-focused Revolver debuted with its September/October 2001 issue featuring Slipknot on the cover. The issue also introduced the new tagline "The World's Loudest Rock Magazine."
Harris Publications sold Revolver to Future US, Inc. in March 2006 for four million dollars. At the time of the sale, the magazine had gross profits of five hundred thousand dollars from a turnover of three point seven million dollars.
The best-selling issue in Revolver's history was the March 2005 Dimebag Darrell tribute issue. The March 2006 debut of the "Hottest Chicks" feature became the second best-selling issue.
The Revolver Golden Gods Music Awards were established in 2009. The ceremony went on hiatus in 2015 and returned in 2016, and it is sponsored by Epiphone.