Dying Wish Deal Out Mosh-Churning Riffage on “Revenge in Carnage”

Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Dying Wish’s latest single “Revenge in Carnage.”

“Revenge in Carnage” is the latest single from Dying Wish’s upcoming album Flesh Stays Together, and a total pummeler — far more bruising than lead single and previous HSOTW inclusion “I’ll Know You’re Not Around.”

The Portland, Oregon band rides a crushing mosh riff during the verses as vocalist Emma Boster unleashes some of the nastiest howls and snarls we’ve heard all year. The chorus has a bit of clean singing to chase the harsh vox, but there’s otherwise no respite until the minute-long outro. Here, Boster sings angelically over calming ambience — a sort of comedown after two minutes of carnage, as the song title itself aptly puts it.

Honorable Mentions:

Bent Sea – “My Fall”

Bent Sea are a grindcore supergroup featuring Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren, Aborted vocalist Sven de Caluwé, and Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury. And “bent” is right; the main riff here is a twisted and gnarled piece of guitarwork. There’s a big payoff when the chorus opens up into a more standard-time groove, but don’t get too comfy. That sick riff comes back around.

Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo – “Radioactive Dreams”

Chat Pile’s upcoming collab album alongside guitar-picking wizard Hayden Pedigo pairs two stalwarts of the Oklahoma underground music scene. While their respective music might seem disparate, Chat Pile and Pedigo meld well together on lead single “Radioactive Dreams” — the former getting a chance to mellow out a bit while the latter’s imaginative and often instrumental Americana finally gets vocals via the ominous bellows of Chat frontman Raygun Busch. The track rises to a heavy crescendo during its midsection, but for the most part, this is a lush post-rock excursion and an effective change of pace for all artists involved.

Mudvayne – “Hurt People Hurt People”

Mudvayne are about to embark on a 25th anniversary tour celebrating their debut L.D. 50, making it a perfect time to drop new music — their first single in 16 years. Even better, it sounds like it could have been from that album: a lean, no-filler groover with a proper industrial metal treatment on the vocal mix. The sonic harshness is a callback to the band’s most aggressive material in the 2000s, but that belies an otherwise positive morality expressed in Chad Gray’s lyrics. Said Gray of the song: “’Hurt People Hurt People’ has probably been around since the beginning of man. Certainly longer than the phrase ever existed. The endless cycle of projecting our pain onto others. I think I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to break the cycle. We create our own suffering, our own hurt. It’s time for us to create self-love and let go of the pain. It was never ours to begin with.”