Rise From Your Grave
Stay Awake
Single, releases on May 15th
Pittsburgh's Rise From Your Grave have established themselves as one of the most dependable and respected of the current crop of horror punk bands, mixing horror punk harmonies with crunchy heavy metal and delivering catchy, hook-laden horror odes over the course of several singles, EPs and - when you include their incoming new album 'Choose Your Score' releasing in the autumn - half a dozen excellent albums. With a killer back-library behind them already, news of an imminent single release is always cause for celebration, so when 'Stay Awake' landed in my inbox I was already excited - and after spending some time with it I've still got the sort of buzz that only great horror punk can give me.
With inspiration from the exploits of every one's favourite clawed, nightmare infesting killer of teens Freddy Krueger, Stay Awake delivers a melodic assault replete with horror punk woah-oh's and soaring vocals; a catchy-as-hell song with those touches of horror love that we all find so irresistible. The subject matter may have been used many times before, but this ticks all the boxes for any self-respecting horror punk fan and goes right up there with The Casket Creatures 'Springwood Slasher' and Shadow Windhawk's '1428' as the best examples, and comfortably sits alongside both as the sort of instantly memorable and anthemic song which makes this the best music genre in the world.
It's a pretty damn great teaser for the upcoming album from a band that wins the award for 'Best Band Name' from me due to my self-proclaimed and longstanding Sega fanboyism, instantly drawing me to the band the first time I heard them. Probably the best thing to ever spring forth - sorta - from Altered Beast as well! Now we just need a horror punk album based around semi-forgotten Sega horror classics like IllBleed and D2 and I don't think I would be able to contain myself. But...I digress...
Stay Awake is out on the 15th May on streaming and over on Bandcamp, where you can currently also hear a preview of the song. Whilst you're over there pick up some merch and take a dip into the band's catalogue, you won't regret it.
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