Heavy Track of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and laborious rock tracks it’s good to hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Biohazard’s comeback single “Forsaken.”
After reuniting with their basic lineup three years in the past, Biohazard have lastly launched new music within the type of “Forsaken,” their first monitor in over a decade.
The band sounds as ferocious as ever — if no more so, because of the trendy manufacturing and its large soundstage — melding lean bouts of thrash in opposition to D-beat hardcore and pit churning breakdowns. The passage of time has made singer-guitarist Billy Graziadei’s bark much more grizzled and Lemmy-esque, and he nonetheless instructions a menacing presence on the mic and onstage, as seen within the raucous efficiency clip that accompanied the one — the primary tease of the band’s forthcoming album.
Honorable Mentions:
The Armed – “Kingbreaker”
Arriving simply days after the nationwide “No Kings” protests, “Kingbreaker” is a two-minute burst of fevered aggression from politically-charged Detroit hardcore collective The Armed, who notably carried out at a Bernie Sanders rally earlier this yr. The complete pressure of the ensemble is in impact right here, from pummeling drums by Urian Hackney to the shrieks of Patrick Shiroishi’s saxophone and the twin vocal scream-shout onslaught of Meghan O’Neil and Tony Wolksi.
Revocation – “Cronenberged”
Ah, to be “Cronenberged.” Maybe melted in a vat of acid, or perhaps set upon by parasites that bore into the attention sockets. There’s a selected imagery to the physique horror of David Cronenberg, and for a dying steel band like Revocation, such deformities and man-made atrocities make for apt lyrical content material — on this case, a narrative about “a science experiment gone unsuitable.” Including one other layer of sonic filth to the combo is Jonny Davy of Job for a Cowboy, who supplies visitor gutturals.
SCALP – “Conspiracy”
The hardcore floweth this week, and California’s SCALP additionally dished out an absolute scorcher with the lead single from their newly introduced album Not Worthy of Human Compassion. These guys are a bit extra grindy than your common HxC act, throwing down minute-long tracks that traverse lots of sonic territory in a brief span. It helps that the deathgrind-y elements are performed at about a-billion BPM, accelerating probably the most brutal parts of the tune earlier than the breakdown drops to halftime and hits like a hammer.