{"id":31833,"date":"2025-09-19T17:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:22:06","slug":"aerosmith-and-yungblud-silence-skeptics-with-my-only-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31833\/","title":{"rendered":"Aerosmith and Yungblud Silence Skeptics with “My Only Angel”"},"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, the top selection goes to Aerosmith and Yungblud\u2019s collaborative single \u201cMy Only Angel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aerosmith<\/a> and Yungblud<\/a>\u2019s new collab \u201cMy Only Angel\u201d is significant for both artists. For Aerosmith, it marks their first new music in over 12 years, not to mention their first song since Steven Tyler\u2019s vocal injury forced the band to retire from touring last year. For Yungblud, it silences some recent skeptics.<\/p>\n

For context, Aerosmith and Yungblud \u2014 the latter in particular \u2014 faced criticism for their recent live collab during the VMAs\u2019 Ozzy Osbourne tribute<\/a>, with The Darkness\u2019 guitarist Dan Hawkins calling it \u201canother nail in the coffin of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll\u201d and his brother, frontman Justin Hawkins, labeling Yungblud a \u201cposer.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy Only Angel\u201d should quell some of the negativity. It\u2019s an excellent rocker with an uplifting romantic tinge, performed as a duet by Tyler and Yungblud \u2014 with the Aerosmith singer holding down the lower register, and Yungblud the higher end (a little nasally but a marked improvement from his rendition of \u201cCrazy Train\u201d at the VMAs). The chorus is an inspired slice of melodic hard rock, with the instrumentation powered by Joe Perry\u2019s legendary guitar playing and a steady but powerful drum track courtesy of former Guns N\u2019 Roses stickman Matt Sorum.<\/p>\n

Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n

Arch Enemy \u2013 \u201cBreak the Spell\u201d<\/p>\n

If it seems like we\u2019ve been telling you about Arch Enemy<\/a>\u2018s Blood Dynasty album for over a year straight, it\u2019s because we kinda have. The Swedish band has elongated the album cycle even further with the announcement of a deluxe edition, which adds three new tracks, \u201cBreak the Spell\u201d among them. We don\u2019t blame them for milking it, as the band has tapped into a rare echelon of quality and quantity, with their latest track being something akin to \u201cextreme hard rock.\u201d Alissa White-Gluz\u2019s harsh howls are befitting of the melodic death metal the band typically performs, but the bouncy guitar arrangement is too accessible and rock-oriented to qualify as melo-death \u2014 thus, too far off the path for the original tracklist, but still worthy of an ancillary release.<\/p>\n

Biohazard \u2013\u00a0\u201cDeath of Me\u201d<\/p>\n

Biohazard<\/a> let the riffs swing at an infectious mid-tempo on \u201cDeath of Me.\u201d It\u2019s a welcome change of pace from the faster, moshier stuff we\u2019ve heard from the band\u2019s forthcoming comeback album Divided We Fall, and that variation goes a long way when you take hardcore out of the live setting and put it on a disc to listen to at home. \u201cOne of my favorites,\u201d enthused drummer Danny Schuler in a press release. \u201cTo me, this song embodies the frustration, miscommunication, and intolerance that we sometimes deal with in our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dead Heat \u2013 \u201cBy My Will\u201d<\/p>\n

Dead Heat<\/a> caught our ear a few weeks ago with their track \u201cPerpetual Punishment\u201d and make a return to the weekly rundown with the follow-up single, \u201cBy My Will.\u201d Most of what we said before stands true for this one: Dead Heat are executing old-school thrash metal with decisive historical accuracy, as far as capturing that vintage Bay Area sound is concerned. \u201cBy My Will\u201d sees the band cranking up the tempo for a punkier, sub-three-minute thrash assault.<\/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":31834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-31833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}