OH. SHIT. FUCK. Heavy Heavy Low Low is back. And it’s exactly what you’re wanting. The mathcore outfit just released “I Go Where I’m Kicked,” the first single from their new album,
Pain Olympics, set to release on April 20th.
The first time I heard HHLL was when “Mall-Nutrition” was featured in some crazy, bloody flash game on Ebaum’s World where you had to try to keep a stick figure alive. Insanity ensued, and that song was the perfect backing track. I don’t remember what the hell that game was called, but I remember becoming an instant fan of the sassy, mathy noise that was destroying my friend Landon’s computer speakers.
Heavy Heavy Low Low was one of the leading horses in the Myspace-era reignition of intense music where every song name was either insane, extremely long, or both (see HHLL’s “Eating The Porridge and Killing The Bears” or The Chariot’s “Someday, in the Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What it is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands of People are Going to Be Shocked and Perplexed to Find Out it Was Not Them. Sometimes, This Includes Me” or seriously any song by Preschool Tea Party Massacre.)
Fast forward one-hundred years or so, I (am ashamed to) fully understand the reference of this new album name; a nod to the same online era where astonishingly brutal content was not gated.
Speaking of nostalgia:
“I Go Where I’m Kicked” is a perfect, tastefully-mathy ripper for anyone who either loved HHLL back in the day or are newcomers to the recent wave of Mathcore.
Starting with somewhat of a skate punk intro, they dive quickly into what we all know them for: Dissonance accompanied by cascading guitar riffs, palm-muted breakdowns, and menacingly growled vocals that we will all be yelling along to when they play this live.
Tell Shannon her music is ready.
For those of you (like me) who enjoy making out with skeletons, drunken stumbles into the desert, and being covered in blood, check out the music video directed by Jacob Nichols:
