Heavy Track of the Week is a characteristic on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and exhausting rock tracks you must hear each Friday. This week, the highest observe goes to Bleed From Inside for “In Place of Your Halo.”
Bleed From Inside have billed their upcoming LP as a brand new starting of types, boldly titling the album Zenith as a mark of confidence.
With tracks just like the vicious “In Place of Your Halo,” it’s clear to see why they’re so excessive on the challenge. This can be a leaner and extra to-the-point BFW, taking a cue from a number of the different UK hardcore bands by including some physicality and visceral riffage. Whereas not fairly beatdown hardcore, the Scottish band positively trip the slam riffs and breakdowns fairly exhausting right here, culminating with the epic turnaround simply over midway by when the bagpipes kick in.
Sure, bagpipes. In a nod to their homeland, Bleed From Inside make killer use of them — possibly the perfect in a heavy music context since AC/DC (lest we’re forgetting one thing).
Honorable Mentions:
Arch Enemy – “Blood Dynasty”
Arch Enemy‘s earlier single “Liars & Thieves” is one in all our favourite classic-sounding metallic cuts of 2024, and the metallic veterans have adopted that up with “Blood Dynasty” — the title observe from its forthcoming album. The tune is extra mid-tempo dying metallic — Alissa White-Gluz is hitting her deepest gutturals — however nonetheless has loads of Arch Enemy’s signature melodic prospers and riffwork, together with some shreddy Schrapnel Data-style solos.
Dream Theater – “A Damaged Man”
Dream Theater have positively gotten heavier with Mike Portnoy again within the fold. The opening of “A Damaged Man” — the second single from Parasomnia — is crushing by latter-era DT requirements and units up James LaBrie’s vocals as he sings impressionistic lyrics concerning the horrors of battle. Working over eight minutes in size, it’s not all bleak: close to the tune’s conclusion, the band breaks right into a full-on blues bridge that ever-so-briefly shoots a beam of positivity into the combo. Then it’s again to the tectonic prog riffs.
Tremonti – “The Finish Will Present Us How”
That Mark Tremonti is just not the lead singer of his two hottest musical initiatives — Creed and Alter Bridge — is likely one of the anomalies of mainstream exhausting rock. The man sings like a hen (simply ask the Sinatra followers), and fortunately he has his eponymous challenge wherein to showcase his voice and songwriting. Tremonti’s newest single “The Finish Will Present Us How” is a genuinely lovely slice of somber alt-rock, delivered with the standard honesty latent to the post-grunge period from which he hails.