Wargasm - Spit (2020)
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/spit/1515933495?i=1515933506
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/4N8vRR39A9ttCbAVW5Gztx
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aigeil9HSWo
Newest single from relative newcomers Wargasm. The London duo have nothing to do with the old Boston, MA thrash outfit of the same name. These two (Sam Matlock and Milkie Way) instead employ a lot of late 90s industrial and nu-metal guitar riffs with some poppy hooks in the instruments. Mix in the dueling vocals of Matlock's raw, unclean shouts and Way's silky smooth, sometimes bubblegum pop level, harmonies and you get a sort of blender of genres that kind of defies typical categorization.
The two cut their teeth shoving some pop songs through the jaws of their style (like N.E.R.D.'s Lapdance). They've started putting out originals lately. Spit is probably their hardest song so far, eschewing some of the more poppy elements of their first releases.
This goes hard.
I am absolutely in love with this. Looking forward to hearing more about them. They have a little bit of old Marilyn Manson, Static-X, and Die Antwoord thrown in there as well. Good stuff.
edit: The music video is very good as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kyrwVLyfPI
Yeah, they have seemingly a lot of influences that all come through at different times. Which I think we'll see more and more of as kids that have always had the buffet of all pop culture at their finger tips start coming of age to make their own stuff. Reminds me a bit of Set to Stun or Greyhaven, who also are almost more a conglomeration of other styles forced together all at once rather than some specific genre.