Heavy Song of the Week is a characteristic on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and onerous rock tracks you want to 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 huge rotating lineup of members and the collective’s mysterious nature total.
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 special band than the one which launched the frenzied hardcore ripper “Kingbreaker” weeks in the past, though there’s a thread of underlying nervousness that’s constant between the 2 songs.
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Honorable Mentions:
3TEETH – “Civil Conflict”
“Civil Conflict” is one in every of Weapons N’ Roses’ extra achieved compositions and a profession spotlight. Listening to it rendered via 3TEETH’s crushing model of commercial rock is actually one thing. Regardless of being one of many extra shocking covers of 2025 to this point, the therapy works and someway makes Axl Rose’s lyrics appear extra severe and foreboding than they already had been, particularly in these occasions.
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 in the course of the band’s live shows, with tankards and fists raised skyward: “We’re, we’re Vikings!”
Biohazard – “F**okay 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 revolt: “F**okay the system!” That is supremely old-school hardcore/thrash of the topshelf selection — as heavy as Biohazard have ever sounded.
