Heavy Track of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and laborious rock tracks you should hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Midnight for his or her hometown anthem “Cleveland Metallic.”
There needs to be extra regional tribute albums in metallic like Midnight’s upcoming Metal, Rust and Disgust, which sees the one-man band masking tracks by Cleveland heroes corresponding to Rocket from the Crypt and Lifeless Boys. As a result of punk and metallic, specifically, have at all times been such a regional type of music, constructed on native scenes and communities.
Generally an artist rises past their native scene to garner extra widespread fame, which might be stated about Midnight. Although the band’s signed to Metallic Blade Information and toured the world, Midnight mastermind Athenar hasn’t forgotten his roots, and that’s admirable. The upcoming tribute LP is spearheaded by the unique tune “Cleveland Metallic,” a love letter to Athenar’s hometown that channels Midnight’s blackened velocity metallic via good ol’ trend bar-band rock n’ roll. Cleveland rips!
Honorable Mentions:
Pigs x7 – “Carousel”
Self-described because the “unashamedly stoner” track on Pigs x7’s new album Demise Hilarious, “Carousel” is actually one of many groovier moments on the LP. The lumbering riffs and head-nodding rhythms serve to interrupt up the tracklist’s darker atmospheres and noise rock dabblings with some bodily swing. For extra from the Pigs, take a look at our unique track-by-track breakdown of Demise Hilarious with the band’s Matt Baty and Sam Grant.
Rise Towards – “Prizefighter”
“Prizefighter” is a considerate track, and fairly meta at that, because it analyzes the connection between an artist, their artwork, and their followers. Rise Towards vocalist and lyricist Tim McIlrath can write from private expertise, reflecting on an typically uncared for a part of this equation within the eyes of the general public: the toll on the psychological well being of the artist in all of this. “It’s making an attempt to reconcile the shift from spectator to the general public area,” stated McIlrath of the anthemic track, “and what you owe the individuals which might be your followers versus what you owe your individual psychological well being.” His thesis will be summed up with the refrain line: “I’m not one thing to be fenced in.”
Tetrarch – “Chilly”
Tetrarch dish out a really 9 Inch Nails-esque slab of business metallic on “Chilly.” Underneath three minutes in size, it’s a claustrophobic monitor with crushed-out guitars that bury the vocals within the combine — as in the event that they’re actually being smothered. A pair grinding breakdowns and melodic vocal components supply temporary respite, however that is in any other case Tetrarch at full tilt, foot on the gasoline.