HEART OF JORDAN – SINGLE REVIEW
Michigan’s metal core mammoths, Heart Of Jordan, have delivered a new single with an accompanying topical video. The song drops today, April 23, and is appropriately entitled “New Life”. Heart Of Jordan are no strangers to AMP. In 2019 the band graced our pages with an extensive interview discussing the release of their debut album, Heart Of Jordan. The album was full of hard hitting driving music that rattled the soul. Every song on the disc was a manic powerhouse. For quite awhile it was my go to workout staple.
The band is made up of Preston Mailand (Vocals), Eric TenEyck (Guitar), Elijah White (Guitar), Alfoonso Civile (Bass) and Andrew Everett.(Drums). Since their formation HOJ have garnished much critical praise and supported numerous major acts including Otherwise and Righteous Vendetta. Their songs encompasses many shades of metal with a diverse palette of sound. The band can be savagely brutal on one song and melodically intense on the next. Yet, they keep a cohesive sonic attack. Every tune is uniquely theirs.
“New Life” can mean many things to different listeners. New life for the band or new life for the world. I think it’s a little of both. These are trying times for society and the realm of music and any breathe of fresh air is greatly appreciated. That’s what Heart Of Jordan have given us. They have offered us a liturgy of rebirth. “New Life” doesn’t shy away from the fact that the universe is screwed in so many fucking ways but still there’s hope. We can raise ourselves up with a new baptism of faith that can possibly bring change.
Mailand sings:
New life is what I’m dying for
Praying each day to be reborn
Let me start over and erase these days
Give me a second chance to make things change
There’s no escape
No hideaway
But one day soon you’ll see
No mistaking love for pain
One day soon you’ll believe
The music on “New Life’ is extremely bold and voracious. Everything cranks. Mailard voice is gnarly and electrifying. The guitars are relentless and the backbeat aggressive with a real nasty bass line. The beat hits you like a raging bull. The entire song is masterful.
The video for “New Life” is just as solid. With social injustice overtones, HOJ intermixes scenes from social unrest and protests with eventually images of blooming fauna. The band is first showing us the manure we have pushed humanity into and then the prospect of redemption. A new social renaissance. God bless Heart Of Jordan and like they said in “New Life’; “One day soon you’ll believe”.
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