{"id":284992,"date":"2026-02-07T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:03:08","slug":"heavy-song-of-the-week-poison-ruins-eidolon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284992\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Song of the Week: Poison Ruin’s “Eidolon”"},"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 Poison Ruin\u2019s \u201cEidolon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled by the artwork \u2014 this ain\u2019t no fantasy metal. Philly\u2019s Poison Ruin<\/a> dish out old-school punk rippers, adhering to the classic traditions of the form by self-recording their music and capturing a natural, analog sound. As for their visual cues, the band applies Medieval imagery as a focusing lens on our own grim realities, deftly turning the idea of escapism \u2014\u00a0generally the appeal of fantasy aesthetics \u2014 on its head.<\/p>\n

That said, Poison Ruin actually do get a bit metal on their excellent new single \u201cEidolon,\u201d locking into a doomy intro riff and some tasty leads. But when the band kicks into high gear and settles into a driving uptempo pace, the thunderous charge \u2014 made more cacophonous by the barks of Mac Kennedy \u2014 brings to mind early Mot\u00f6rhead.<\/p>\n

After taking one of our first-ever HSOTW honors<\/a> three years ago, Poison Ruin reclaim their rightful place at the throne, solidifying their status as the knights-errant of modern punk.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n

Dropkick Murphys \u2013 \u201cCitizen I.C.E.\u201d<\/p>\n

Props to Ken Casey. It\u2019s one thing to make some social media posts, reshare \u201cAbolish ICE\u201d messages on your stories, etc. But Casey hit the pavement and protested the Minneapolis ICE raids with his fellow Bostonians, and he used his platform with Dropkick Murphys<\/a> to unleash this protest song \u2014 an update of older track with new lyrics, including the barbed phrase: \u201cToo scared to join the military\/ Too dumb to be a cop\/ Citizen I.C.E.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayhem \u2013 \u201cRealm of Endless Misery\u201d<\/p>\n

With their European tour set to kick off, Mayhem<\/a> peel off another track from their forthcoming album Liturgy of Death. Fast dissonant riffing and blast beats comprise the first section of the song, as the Norwegian pioneers make a hellish noise that dissipates into a murky, psych-prog middle movement. A skin-pounding solo by Hellhammer guides the arrangement back to its original theme in anticipation of a final, two-minute barrage.<\/p>\n

mclusky \u2013\u00a0\u201ci know computer\u201d<\/p>\n

This two-minute number is definitively mclusky<\/a> \u2014 skeletal post-hardcore structured around the prominent bass lines of Damien Sayell. Frontman Andrew \u201cFalco\u201d Falkous provides the obligatory mclusky guitar stabs, and the band settles into a skronky rhythmic workout by the time the chorus comes around: an utterly sarcastic chant of, \u201cIt\u2019s a real nice feeling.\u201d<\/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":284993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-284992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}