Heavy Track of the Week is a characteristic on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and onerous rock tracks you’ll want to hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Rise Towards’s new single “Nod.”
Rise Towards dropping their first new music in three years throughout inauguration week is not any coincidence. The Chicago band has an extended historical past of decrying political and social injustices in its melodic punk rock, melding highly effective messages to catchy and sometimes uplifting anthems like “Nod.”
Quite than taking a nihilistic and defeatist view of the established order, frontman Tim McIlrath’s lyrics are way more optimistic, encouraging communal constructing and the collective urge for change. Quite than elevating a pitchfork and shouting on the sky in anger, he sings on to his viewers concerning the optimistic affect they’ll make collectively in the event that they need to enact change they hope to see. It’s one thing lots of people might stand to listen to proper now, as the times certainly appear darkish.
Honorable Mentions:
Cradle of Filth – ”To Reside Deliciously”
Against this, Cradle of Filth’s “To Reside Deliciously” is an ode to non-public independence and self-sufficiency — definitely one solution to cope with the noise of the surface world. “The music is concerning the celebration of life,” commented Dani Filth. “Of indulging in every part unfettered from the conformities of faith, vogue or state. Free from guilt or constraint. As nature supposed.” Torrents of riffage, coupled with Dani’s harsh vocals, run by way of the verses, whereas the refrain sees the band open into extra melodic territory with clear guitar leads and extra discernible lyrics. All in all, the observe runs the gamut of CoF’s amorphous excessive metallic model.
Dream Theater – “Midnight Messiah”
Not solely is drummer Mike Portnoy behind the package once more in Dream Theater, however he’s again to contributing lyrics, too. “Midnight Messiah” options his first lyrical contributions since 2009, and as Portnoy mentioned, the phrases comprise a couple of Easter Eggs for hardcore DT followers who recall his previous lyrics for the band. Musically, it’s in all probability essentially the most simple of the Parasomnia singles, with a hard-rock tilt that’s subjugated by some satisfying soloing and melodic sections through the observe’s latter half.
SUMAC and Moor Mom – “Scene 1”
To hold off the prior entries for Rise Towards and CoF, one other response to determined instances is that of human creativity. The brand new collaboration between sludge metallers SUMAC and avant-jazz poet Moor Mom is certainly that — unbridled sheer human creativity as a type of catharsis. “Scene 1” is the primary half in what is supposed to be taken as a complete, an LP entitled The Movie, and sees SUMAC exploring their free-jazz improv facet, upsetting the pen and phrases of Moor Mom (the music was recorded first) as a kind of reverse soundtrack, the album title thus being fairly applicable.