{"id":399172,"date":"2026-01-09T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399172\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:02:09","slug":"white-beast-announce-new-album-die-hard-hear-cooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399172\/","title":{"rendered":"White Beast Announce New Album &#8216;Die Hard&#8217;: Hear &#8220;Cooked&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Richmond noise-rock duo White Beast have given us exactly one song per year since their 2023 debut album: 2024&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2271152\/white-beast-jakarta-is-coming\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jakarta Is Coming<\/a>&#8221; and 2025&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2297059\/white-beast-servant\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Servant<\/a>.&#8221; Today we get their first (and fortunately not last) song of 2026, a heaving rager called &#8220;Cooked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cooked&#8221; is the lead single from a new White Beast album called Die Hard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTS47zpER_m\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to the band<\/a>, it&#8217;s out on May Day. This track is successfully piquing my interest for it, pairing pained screams and whimpers with a relentless low-end churn that rises and falls like stormy waters. It&#8217;s sort of like Chat Pile if they were a little more metal; listen below and see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Die Hard is out 5\/1.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Richmond noise-rock duo White Beast have given us exactly one song per year since their 2023 debut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-399172","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\/399172","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=399172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}