Heavy Music of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and onerous rock tracks you have to hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Alter Bridge’s “Silent Divide.”
Alter Bridge introduced a US tour this week and marked the event with a brand new track, “Silent Divide,” their first studio materials since 2022. The monitor is the lead single from their upcoming self-titled eighth studio album.
The five-minute minimize sees the band at its heaviest. Mark Tremonti’s riffs are available a gradual circulation because the rhythm part of Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips kilos away. One will get the sense that the trio — additionally the instrumentalists in Creed — get to open up a bit when it’s time to carry out beneath the Alter Bridge banner, tapping right into a thicker and untempered fashion of grungy onerous rock. Issue within the exceptional pipes of frontman Myles Kennedy, to not point out Tremonti’s personal pristine backing vocals, and the monitor takes full flight.
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Between the Buried and Me – “The Blue Nowhere”
BTBAM provided up the third and last single from their new album within the type of its title monitor, “The Blue Nowhere.” This one’s for the prog heads who may usually be turned away by the band’s extra metallic aesthetics, significantly the sporadic use of gutturals. There’s none of that right here (clean-singing followers rejoice). In truth, this can be a quite lush six-minute composition with peaks of grandeur — undoubtedly essentially the most overtly prog of the three album singles. No metallic to be discovered, actually.
Chilly Metal – “No Escape”
Tampa’s Chilly Metal dish out a modernized tackle crossover thrash, as heard on “No Escape,” melding old-school thrash riffs with the bounce and breakdown-heavy fashion of latest hardcore and metalcore. They might simply as properly open for a Knocked Unfastened or a Testomony, and each crowds would most likely dig it. Any such punkish thrash at all times advantages from a vocalist that sounds completely unhinged, and Jose Menendez undoubtedly suits that invoice, delivering a delightfully devilish efficiency. Trivium is a strong level of reference for the place Chilly Metal fall on the style spectrum, so it’s no shock that Matt Heafy contributed to pre-production and preparations and helped advise the band in the course of the making of its forthcoming debut album, Self-discipline & Punish.
Solar Dont Shine – “What You Are”
After they claimed our HSOTW honor in June, we’re again with one other single from Solar Dont Shine, the brand new supergroup that includes Crowbar’s Kirk Windstein and members of Kind O Destructive. Right here they hit an virtually trad-doom sound, using head-nodding riffs which might be rendered via a murky and sludgy tone, of which Windstein is a seasoned purveyor.