Heavy Track of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and exhausting rock tracks you should hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to “Sharp Tooth” by The Armed.
You by no means know what you’re going to get with The Armed, a byproduct of their large rotating lineup of members and the collective’s mysterious nature general.
For instance, the most recent single “Sharp Tooth” sees the return of Dan Greene, the band’s enigmatic mastermind, and the observe is a grinding post-hardcore exercise that includes co-vocalist Cara Drolshagen. It feels like a unique band than the one which launched the frenzied hardcore ripper “Kingbreaker” weeks in the past, though there’s a thread of underlying anxiousness that’s constant between the 2 songs.
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Honorable Mentions:
3TEETH – “Civil Warfare”
“Civil Warfare” is one in every of Weapons N’ Roses’ extra completed compositions and a profession spotlight. Listening to it rendered by means of 3TEETH’s crushing model of business rock is really one thing. Regardless of being one of many extra shocking covers of 2025 to this point, the remedy works and in some way makes Axl Rose’s lyrics appear extra severe and foreboding than they already have been, particularly in these instances.
Amon Amarth – “We Rule the Waves”
Amon Amarth, without end dedicated to their bit, unleashed one other Viking anthem within the type of “We Rule the Waves.” As a form of follow-up to “Put Your Again into the Oar,” this newest one-off single additionally has a seafaring theme and a refrain that begs to be chanted in unison through the band’s live shows, with tankards and fists raised skyward: “We’re, we’re Vikings!”
Biohazard – “F**ok the System”
Biohazard are again with a second single from their forthcoming comeback album, and it’s one other bruiser with an age-old common message of political insurrection: “F**ok the system!” That is supremely old-school hardcore/thrash of the topshelf selection — as heavy as Biohazard have ever sounded.