{"id":40734,"date":"2025-08-02T01:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T01:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:44:22","slug":"heavy-song-of-the-week-fleshwaters-jetpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40734\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Song of the Week: Fleshwater’s “Jetpack”"},"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, No. 1 goes to Fleshwater\u2019s \u201cJetpack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleshwater<\/a>\u2019s 2022 debut album garnered widespread praise, establishing the band\u2019s sonic identity while separating the project from guitarist\/vocalist Anthony DiDio\u2019s other successful band, Vein.fm. As opposed to the latter\u2019s intricate metalcore, Fleshwater have a distinctly \u201990s heavy alt\/indie sound, laced with mathy post-hardcore riffs \u2014 albeit less mathy than Vein \u2014 and melodic flourishes via the trade-off singing of DiDio and Marisa Shirar.<\/p>\n

Portions of their latest single \u201cJetpack\u201d \u2014 the first from the forthcoming sophomore effort 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky \u2014 recall bands like Chavez or At the Drive-In, but Fleshwater skew toward a heavier brand of riffage, breaking into more metallic territories during the chorus and breakdowns. The dual vocals are in full effect here as well, driving home the late-\u201990s\/early-2000s vibes. That Fleshwater have shared bills with Deftones and The Mars Volta is truly befitting, as the former and the latter \u2014 or at least the aforementioned pre-Volta ATDI stuff \u2014 are great points of reference for what the Massachusetts band is dishing out.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n

Dying Wish \u2013\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ll Know You\u2019re Not Around\u201d<\/p>\n

We tend to comb through a lot of metalcore while constructing the Heavy Song of the Week rundowns, so it\u2019s always a joy to hear variation in a genre that\u2019s become competitive in terms of exposure and thus, sometimes rote in its delivery. Dying Wish<\/a> are not subscribing to any such mold, as evinced by \u201cI\u2019ll Know You\u2019re Not Around.\u201d There\u2019s a melancholy here that\u2019s genuine \u2014 a Cocteau Twins or Slowdive-type of melancholy \u2014 which is a credit to vocalist Emma Boster and her ethereal crooning during the intro and chorus. Contrastingly, she adopts deep gutturals for the verses, as the Oregon band flexes the full breadth of its sound across the nearly four-minute track.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Oxymorrons \u2013\u00a0\u201cBlk Sheep\u201d<\/p>\n

NYC hip-hop\/punk\/metal act Oxymorrons<\/a> just announced a new EP titled Create. Destroy. Rebuild. Repeat., sharing the single \u201cBlk Sheep.\u201d Described in the band\u2019s press release as a \u201cfull-throttle protest against the performative systems we live under,\u201d the track is a compact riffer that\u2019s among Oxymorrons\u2019 more metallic tunes to date, harkening back to the political groove-metal of Sepultura\u2019s Roots album. The chorus takes a surprisingly pop-rock angle, offering some breathing room around the otherwise relentless verses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Street Sects \u2013 \u201cThe Glass Shithouse\u201d<\/p>\n

Brutal primitive industrial from Austin duo Street Sects, \u201cThe Glass Shithouse\u201d track is so smashed with distortion, it\u2019s hard to discern some of the more danceable and melodic elements churning away in the decidedly crushed-out mix. Fans of classic \u201980s industrial stalwarts like Foetus or Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten will be satiated. Also, it\u2019s good to see one of the genre\u2019s modern forerunners, HEALTH, proliferating the quality art of their contemporaries, as Street Sects\u2019 new album and a separate side album under the Street Sex moniker are both coming out via HEALTH\u2019s new imprint COMPULSION RECORDS.<\/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":40735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-40734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734","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=40734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}