Heavy Music of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and onerous rock tracks you want to hear each Friday. Our first No. 1 choose of the New Yr goes to L.S. Dunes’ “Violet.”
Generally a monitor comes collectively good, with no hiccups — from the demo stage to the ultimate mastering — as if future has taken maintain. That certain looks like the case with “Violet,” an impressed new lower from post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes.
Guitarist Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance) introduced the unique demo to the band in totally structured type, laying the groundwork for his bandmates to complete it off with their very own performances. Within the phrases of bassist Tim Payne, “All of us simply knew instantly what we needed to do.”
The impeccable falsetto vocals of Anthony Inexperienced (Circa Survive, Saosin) and layered guitar-work give off a pleasing and nostalgic mid–’90s Radiohead vibe, and the tangible angst and melancholy of the monitor befits its lyrical premise. “This music is about somebody getting precisely what they deserve,” stated Inexperienced. “This music helped me get by the sensation of being ghosted.”
Honorable Mentions:
Bonfire – “Misplaced All Management”
German melodic onerous rock vets Bonfire proceed to excellent their craft and check the extremes of their trademark sound. “Misplaced All Management” is a quick and frenetic piece — straight-up energy steel at moments — that melds the band’s massive hooks and choruses with velocity riffing and technicality. The guitarwork is supreme, as are the shimmering vocals of Dyan Mair, whose anachronistic efficiency evokes Bonfire’s ’80s heyday.
Lacuna Coil – “Gravity”
Lacuna Coil and Century Media have actually been stoking the hype for the Italian band’s upcoming album, Sleepless Empire, one among our most-anticipated heavy releases of 2025. “Gravity” makes a whopping 5 singles from the LP, this one exemplifying the contrasting extremes that drive the veteran group’s model of metalcore: the guttural vocals vs. clear melodic feminine singing; the musical peaks and valleys, from chugging riffage to hovering choruses and bombastic drops.
Tremonti – “Tomorrow We Will Fail”
Mark Tremonti (Creed, Alter Bridge) has unleashed one of many first nice onerous rock albums of 2025, along with his eponymous band’s just-released effort The Finish Will Present Us How. Remarkably, we’ve included 4 tracks from the album on our HSOTW rundowns (a brand new report for the column), with standout lower “Tomorrow We Will Fail” being the most recent. It kinda goes with out saying at this level, however the guitarist’s vocal efficiency is high notch — he actually gave it his all on this album — and this grungy monitor has a surging major-chord association and a central riff that would work in Creed.