Heavy Track of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and laborious rock tracks it is advisable to hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Swedish supergroup Grand Cadaver’s new single “Darkened Apathy”.”
Grand Cadaver are a supergroup that includes Darkish Tranquillity vocalist Bengt Mikael Stanne, and our Heavy Track of the Week choice “Darkened Apathy” hails from their forthcoming EP The Rot Beneath.
Contemplating this week’s roundup comes on the finish of “Steel Week” right here at Consequence, the monitor is a slab of aptly traditional dying steel of the old-school pressure. There’s a tangible doom component right here as nicely, with dissonant arpeggios ringing out and previous a trudging and ominous association that ultimately picks as much as a breakneck tempo earlier than circling again for some tasty breakdowns. The tempo changes all through the music are mighty spectacular — the work of seasoned vets.
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Honorable Mentions:
La Dispute – “Sibling Fistfight at Mother’s Fiftieth / The Un-sound”
Submit-hardcore act La Dispute dropped a whopping 5 songs this week as a part of Act 3 of their forthcoming album. The spotlight of the batch obtained its personal video clip and stands one of many extra concise and song-y tracks from this extremely conceptual narrative LP. The vocals and guitars are propulsive and play off each other because the plot thickens, vocalist Jordan Dreyer’s storytelling move rising to a managed shout.
Mammoth – “The Spell”
Wolfgang Van Halen already notched a previous high music of the week honor with the title monitor from his upcoming album The Finish. Its follow-up “The Spell” is a little more poppy and restrained, counting on Wolfgang’s deft sense of dynamic, melody, and music construction somewhat than flashy guitar fireworks. Per the standard, he performed all of the devices on the tune, giving him full command over these intricacies.
We Got here as Romans – “tradition wound”
This week, We Got here as Romans introduced their new album All Is Lovely…As a result of We’re Doomed, out August twenty second. The band additionally shared a 3rd tease of the LP in type of “tradition wound,” a monitor that illustrates the darkish/gentle duality of the album title, as WCAR juggle hovering, melodic passages with brutal segments of growled vocals and hyper-active metalcore.