Heavy Tune of the Week is a characteristic on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and laborious rock tracks you should hear each Friday. This week, the highest spot goes to Stuffed with Hell’s “Knight’s Oath.”
No, Stuffed with Hell aren’t releasing their dungeon synth album, though their new EP — Damaged Sword, Rotten Defend — definitely has the look of 1 with its cartoonish medieval cowl and nomenclature. Fairly, it’s harking back to what Poison Wreck did a pair years in the past, basically refracting common themes by a fantasy lens whereas retaining the band’s core sound.
As for the which means behind the EP’s first single “Knight’s Oath,” frontman Dylan Walker mirrored: “Absolute dedication to your cost, be it an individual you’re keen on or held tenet, and the ignominy that comes with a sudden defeat.” The knight-errant Don Quixote metaphor is definitely befitting to such a premise, and Stuffed with Hell couple that with one among their most tangibly heavy metallic compositions thus far. The monitor verges on black n’ roll with its breakneck tempo and driving rhythms, and the uncooked instrumentation fits the band effectively, eschewing FoH’s extra experimental/industrial studio tendencies for one thing extra akin to their dwell sound.
Honorable Mentions:
Alice Cooper – “Black Mamba” feat. The Doorways’ Robby Krieger
The unique Alice Cooper band is again with their first new album in 51 years, and based on producer Bob Ezrin — who additionally helmed the band’s traditional albums within the Nineteen Seventies — the group basically picked up the place it left off, as if no time had handed. Upon listening to “Black Mamba,” we consider it. With its gritty blues-rock riffs and psychedelic haze, the monitor feels like a leftover from an early Cooper band LP like Straightforward Motion, which dabbled in acid rock and heavy psych previous to Alice’s shock-rock makeover.
Most cancers – “Enter the Gates”
Dying metallic vets Most cancers are again with their first new album in seven years, Inverted World, which is out now by way of Peaceville Data. Opener “Enter the Gates” is a superb primer for the 40-plus minute LP, because the band discover a good stability between OSDM murk and grinding technicality. There’s some complicated riff-work right here, however not in a showy or exaggerated approach. Environment comes first, because it ought to with this sort of demise metallic.
Halestorm – “Darkness All the time Wins”
Halestorm faucet into an ’80s aesthetic on “Darkness All the time Wins,” the primary single from the band’s as-yet-untitled new album, set for launch later this yr. There’s a throwback FM power-ballad vibe right here, with a serious emphasis on Lzzy Hale’s hovering vocals and even some lyrical nods to the aforementioned period — “operating with the shadows” (Pat Benatar) and “fading into black” (Metallica) — as we identified in our authentic write-up for the music. Issues get a bit heavier across the midway level when Joe Hottinger’s guitar kicks in and Hale unleashes a formidable scream, including a dynamic peak to the association.