Weekly Roundup: May 10th
Weekly Roundup: May 10th
Featuring Plizzken, The Night Flight Orchestra, Fury, and more.
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A curated selection of cool shit for you to listen to.
Fury – “Birds of Paradise”
Like Fucked Up and Self Defense Family before them, Cali outfit Fury took the chance to level up their hardcore credentials on 2019’s Failed Entertainment. The band’s latest single, “Birds of Paradise,” advances that ethos with a booming drum intro, shimmering 90s guitar lines, neck-breaking tempo shifts, and vocalist Jeremy Stith savage lyrical bite. The track’s video also has a distinctly Tarantino-like verve—sans the obligatory feet—which is always fun to watch. Check it out below:
Kataan – S/T EP
Kataan consist of Nicholas Thornbury (ex-Vattnet Viskar) on guitar and vocals and Brett Boland (Astronoid) on drums and bass, and their self-titled debut EP offers up crushing percussion, dense layers of swirling atmosphere, and hyperspeed riffage. This is cinematic death metal done right with a dark, post-apocalyptic edge. Stream the EP in full here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Plizzken – “Dear All Happy People”
I listened to this track based purely on the band name (what up Snake?) and it did not disappoint. Plissken rip through fun, anachronistic street-punk with the kind of genuine lack of self-awareness that only Germans could muster. It sounds like something off Punk-O-Rama [insert number here] and I’m 110% about it. (Now, where’s my copy of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2?) Listen to “Dear All Happy People” here.
Steel Bearing Hand – Slay In Hell
God damn, this thing absolutely fucking r-i-p-s. Six tracks of chugging, squealing, riffy, blackened, thrashy, doomy, bludgeoning, chunky, profoundly nasty death metal—and Dallas quartet Steel Bearing Hand nail it all with Slay In Hell. Seriously folks: Texas don’t miss, so you best suss this shit pronto. Stream the LP here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Timelost – “Love My Way”
Timelost released their Church Road Records debut LP back in February and now the shoegaze four-piece have dropped a video for the record’s closing track: a cover of 1982’s “Love My Way,” originally performed by British new wavers The Psychedelic Furs. Accordingly, it’s loud, breezy, and well within the band’s fuzzy revisionist wheelhouse. Watch the video here.
Heavy Sentence – Bang to Rights
Take NWOBHM influences, chuck in some Thin Lizzy sleaze, then mix with a dash of Lemmy’s leftover powder stash, and you’d have something approaching the rollicking thrash ‘n’ roll exploits of UK outfit Heavy Sentence. Stuffing ten tracks into 37 minutes, the band’s debut album, Bang to Rights (out May 28 through Dying Victim Productions) is here for a good time, not a long time. This is full-throated metal-punk in all its messy, sweat-drenched, adrenal glory. Stream the record’s pre-release tracks here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
The Night Flight Orchestra – “White Jeans”
I’ve seen Metalsucks label this track the ‘Feel-Good Dad Rock Hit of Spring’ and I’m obliged to agree. The Swedish hard-rockers bring the 80s glam on their latest single with guitarist David Andersson’s bright melodic licks and frontman Björn Strid’s idolising the magazine cover girl of his adolescent fantasies. Watch The Night Flight Orchestra’s video for “White Jeans” below:
The Lords of Altamont – Tune In, Turn On, Electrify!
Psychonauts The Lords of Altamont have been on a riffy trip since the late 90s, and their latest project, Tune In, Turn On, Electrify! (out July 9 through Heavy Psych Sounds Records), is both an experiment in live show creativity and a dedication to their garage rock roots, paying homage to their sonic forefathers in the process. Stream the album’s pre-release single here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Listen to all these tracks on the TPD May playlist, updated each week.
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