Heavy Track of the Week is a characteristic on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and exhausting rock tracks it is advisable to hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Behemoth’s new single “The Shadow Elite.”
Behemoth have largely been a black steel band taking part in loss of life steel for just a few album cycles now. Spiritually and conceptually the previous; sonically the latter.
The Polish pioneers break that dichotomy on the old-school black steel assault “The Shadow Elite,” a form of rallying cry for his or her most devoted, hardcore followers — as depicted within the raucous music video, the band performing to unique invite-only viewers of its fast followers, who’re thus branded with the Behemoth sigil.
It’s an instance of simply how violent and unhinged Nergal and firm can get after they set ablaze the atonal harshness that outlined their early Pagan black steel period. An anthem for the cult, so to talk.
Honorable Mentions:
Ghost – “Satanized”
In the event you’re searching for heavy steel from the brand new Ghost single, you’re gonna need to look elsewhere. That stated, you’d be hard-pressed to discover a higher rendering of ’80s AOR/exhausting rock in 2025. Styx, YES (circa “Proprietor of a Lonely Coronary heart”), and even Toto come to thoughts on this swish tune, the prog underpinnings considerably obscured by the copious reverb and sheer mellowness of the manufacturing.
The Jesus Lizard – “I’m Uninterested in Being Your Mom”
The idea behind “I’m Uninterested in Being Your Mom” is so rattling excellent for a Jesus Lizard track: a set of verbal scoldings of the maternal selection, set to noise rock. And at first, it begins like your typical Jesus Lizard track with plodding drums and bass, David Yow hollering, “Why do I’ve to say every part a thousand occasions?” However then it takes a left flip, getting comparatively fairly — by the band’s bruising requirements — because the guitars construct right into a wall of chiming shoegaze-y suggestions.
Teen Mortgage – “Celebration”
“Celebration” is one other garage-punk nugget from the rising duo Teen Mortgage. The manic bounce of the guitars conjures the late nice Jay Reatard, and there’s extra of these irresistible pop hooks that snagged us on Teen Mortage’s earlier HSOTW inclusion, “Field.”