Bite The Hand has found their voices. Its new single, "STAY MAD," is a visceral sugarcane anthem that revels in a bit of frustration and just as much fury. It's an emotional pressure cooker, balancing soft, melodic introspection with explosive, hardcore catharsis. It demonstrates that sometimes, the only way to get through life's overwrought chaos is to scream right through it.
"STAY MAD" crackles with urgency from the first note. The band weaves together hairpin turns of sharp riffs, breakneck drums, and a melodic undertow that pulls you down into the storm. At the center of it all is Echo Breen, whose vocals go from raw vulnerability to throat-shredding intensity. "My bones are breaking. My brain is shaking. A new bruise is fading." she howls, knocking out every breathless line like a gut punch. It's not angst, for angst's sake. It's a battle cry for anyone suffocating in the never-ending churn of modern life.
"STAY MAD" on Blast Beat Pinball comes in equal parts sugar and shrapnel, carving out a unique space in the hardcore landscape and demonstrating that rage can be both the cathartic kind and the kind that can get stuck in your head and the heads of the unsuspecting. "STAY MAD" is a wake-up call that anger is carburant. And in a world that will not stop making you mad, sometimes it's just how you survive.