Heavy Music of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and exhausting rock tracks it’s essential hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Turnstile’s first new track in 4 years, “By no means Sufficient.”
Selecting up proper the place they left off with the acclaimed Glow On 4 years in the past, Turnstile are in nice type on the title observe from their forthcoming album, By no means Sufficient.
It takes some time for issues to kick into gear, because the track opens with a one-minute ambient intro, although that solely provides to the payoff when the guitar drop lastly hits and the refrain begins crusing. Not a lot hardcore as it’s ’90s-indebted grunge pop, that is just about a surefire anthem for Summer time ’25. And it’s nonetheless extremely moshable as well.
Honorable Mentions:
Behemoth – “Lvciferaeon”
“Lvciferaeon” hits with a bit much less influence than Behemoth‘s earlier singles from The Shit Ov God (although that’s extra a testomony to how sturdy these had been) and sees the Polish blasphemers working in a extra grindy dying steel context. The instrumental performances stay at an apex for Behemoth’s profession, with this observe casting an identical silhouette as among the nice blackened dying steel items on the band’s opus The Satanist.
Katatonia – “Lilac”
The primary Katatonia observe because the departure of founding guitarist Anders Nyström sees the band totally embracing the gothic dying steel sound that led to his exit. It doesn’t matter what aspect of the fence you’re on (Nyström needed to return to the band’s ’90s roots), Katatonia execute this type very effectively, mixing the compelling melodic vocal work of Jonas Renkse with a stew of prog, goth, and excessive steel parts.
Sodom – “Set off Self-discipline”
The natural, pure sound of the manufacturing is instantly noticeable on the most recent single from German thrash titans Sodom. “No plastic!” exclaimed frontman Tom Angelripper within the press launch for the observe. “The distinction in sound in comparison with at this time’s customary drum productions is superb and has had a constructive impact on all of the devices.” It provides a ferocious live-sounding edge to this bulldozing riffer, which some would say is a required part of all thrash price its salt. We should notice that Tom Angelripper’s vocals on this observe sound rather a lot like a sure different thrash steel Tom — Slayer’s Tom Araya — which ain’t a foul factor.