Stepson Drop A Heavy New Track

A new single from Stepson delivers a brutal cross between hardcore, deathcore, grind, and augmented metal with blistering riffs and a fierce approach that all come together to create something that packs a massive punch and comes at you aggressively from all angles.

"Venom" features some outstanding guitar work. These riffs are indeed a little bit vast and can get crunchy, trudging, and heavy as well, bringing out that classic hardcore feel but also ringing the bells of some deepening metal approaches while they're at it.

This is a song for the mosh pits from start to finish, and they are indeed quite inventive with those riffs and approaches. What really hits the hardest about this track for me is the drumming.

The percussion and drumming throughout this track is absolutely outstanding and never sits still for even a second. It's not about being in the pocket; it's more about letting the song feel alive, and that's what the drummer does with this track.

When he needs to come in with a halftime drive, he does it, but a lot of the time he's throwing in these sorry kind of fills that really let the song breathe and hit even harder.

I feel like this track really lets the drumming push everything further, and that's what it does. It pushes the entire track through the roof in terms of its energy and fire.

The vocals are also quite brutal. You have that perfect blend of what I would consider a little bit of death metal, but also plenty of that hardcore in the vocal approach, and I definitely dig the energy because that's what songs like this are all about.

A song like this puts all its weight into that energy and inventive riffs that make you want to jump two feet in the air when you hear that breakdown come in.

This track accomplishes all that and more, and you can hear that aggressive tonality in the entire song, but there are a few great surprises around the corners as well.

Some of the breakdowns are just amazing. Even when the band is super tight, you can hear this almost loose grit in the tone of the guitars and especially the bass guitars. The bass guitar tone is almost everything here, and you hear it throughout the track, but when it gets to those breakdowns, you really get hit by it.

I love this aspect because the bassist is super tight, but let's that little bit of sort of dirty or grittiness come through in that tone, and it really just makes the song sonically disgusting, which I absolutely love.

This song is dripping. Its tones and textures are all dripping but sharp at the same time.

It boasts just as much low-end as it does high-end and really comes through with explosive changes and the energy of a band you're watching live, right in your face.

This track comes with a brand new music video, which also showcases the band's presence pretty well. They thrash out wildly with a rambunctious approach and through-the-roof velocity that really just becomes so infectious that I suggest you watch the video the first time you listen to the track.

Another cool aspect about this track is that its undertones have this vastness that makes them deepen. There's a depth to them, and this gives the track layers.

For anyone who loves great breakdowns, hardcore mosh pit moments, inventive riffs, gritty and almost disgusting tonality, and a little bit of an outside-the-box approach, this is an absolute metal and hardcore opus that you should definitely check out.

This is a short but absolutely sweet banger, and anyone who loves having music is going to fall for this one right away.

Check this out, listen to it loud, and remember where you heard it first.

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