{"id":284028,"date":"2025-11-15T05:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284028\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:09:28","slug":"bruised-sky-is-poppy-at-her-most-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284028\/","title":{"rendered":"“Bruised Sky\u201d Is Poppy at Her Most Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heavy Song of the Week<\/a> is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, we highlight Poppy\u2019s \u201cBruised Sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poppy<\/a> is a chameleon when it comes to genre, but lately, she\u2019s embedded herself with alt-metal royalty, collaborating with the likes of Amy Lee in the studio<\/a> and with Linkin Park onstage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would seem some of that hangtime has rubbed off on her, as she goes full metal on her latest single \u201cBruised Sky.\u201d Her right-hand studio collaborator, Jordan Fish, also brings his past work with Bring Me the Horizon to the table here, given the overall metalcore treatment of the production.<\/p>\n

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The heavy guitars and general sonic aggression lets Poppy throw her voice in all directions, exercising both her highest clean register as well as death growls. She wears this style well, even if she\u2019s only dabbled in it thus far. It begs the question: How much more metal does her upcoming album Empty Hands have in store?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n

Black Swan \u2013 \u201cIf I Was King\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Swan are a veteran supergroup featuring Headbangers Ball heroes Robin McAuley (McAuley Schenker Group), Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake), Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, The End Machine, ex-Dokken), and Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Mr. Big). On the group\u2019s new single \u201cIf I Was King,\u201d McAuley\u2019s recognizable pipes are right out front, with a just a bit of aged grit to his hyper melodic delivery. Meanwhile, Beach supplies a robust guitar arrangement that keeps the track from stagnating. Fans of any of the involved band members\u2019 other projects \u2014 particularly McAuley Schenker Group and Winger \u2014 will enjoy this immensely.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Flatwounds \u2013 \u201cVilify\u201d<\/p>\n

Flatwounds is a great name for a heavy rock band, because you gotta have flatwound strings on your bass if you\u2019re gonna pull off divebomb riffs and slide those fingers. Otherwise you\u2019re asking for blisters. Anyways, this choice nomenclature been claimed by Flatwounds, an Albany-based grunge revival group with a classic Alice in Chains vibe thanks to the gravelly voice of frontman Colin O\u2019Hare. The band\u2019s fat skronky riffs are also a blast from the past, filled with pure groove \u2014 riffs that sounds like they\u2019re fun to play on a bass with flatwounds. Their latest single \u201cVilify\u201d is excellent. We\u2019re keeping an eye on these guys.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Raven \u2013 \u201cMetal Militia\u201d<\/p>\n

When the Metallica Kill \u2018Em All tribute album was announced, we circled this cover by Raven<\/a>. Among the numerous NWOBHM acts featured on the comp, Raven hold particular significance in that Metallica\u2019s first tour was supporting Raven on the \u201cKill \u2018Em All for One\u201d tour in 1983. The British metal pioneers are known for their many anthems about rock and metal, making \u201cMetal Militia\u201d really the only correct choice for them, as far as covering something from Kill \u2018Em All. The Gallagher brothers\u2019 signature craziness comes across great here too, with John letting out his cartoonishly high-pitch falsetto for the chorus.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-284028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}