Denver trio Fox Lake have just released their blistering new single 'Real Fast'. A band known for weaponising genre chaos into something razor-sharp and exhilarating, the track is taken from their upcoming new album New World Heat, out this Friday via MNRK HEAVY.
Since 2017, Fox Lake have been fusing metalcore, hardcore, hip-hop and rock 'n' roll into a sound that hits hard and refuses to settle. With 'Real Fast', they’re keeping fans guessing: short, savage and built around a sample rather than a riff, it’s designed to disorient and provoke, arriving like a punch thrown in a basement pit, raw, relentless and impossible to ignore.
Watch the video for 'Real Fast' here: https://youtu.be/ZVaLvrHwWcg
Stream the single and pre-order New World Heat here: https://foxlake.ffm.to/newworldheat
The band comment on the latest single, “‘Real Fast’ is the last single before the album release because we wanted to keep people guessing. There are songs on the album that might have more memorable hooks, bigger features, or a longer run time, but we collectively agreed that we wanted to put out something that would hit like an uppercut and keep people curious about what the rest of the record had to offer. From a songwriting perspective, this was a rare case where the song was written and conceptualized using the sample as the blueprint rather than adding a sample to an otherwise finished song. We wanted to write something "real fast" so the listener would never know what hit them.”
Reading the lyrics throughout New World Heat, Fox Lake reveal the redemptive theme at the album's beating heart, stating, "The basic concept of the album is about burning things down in order to restart. It's about who you are versus who you want to be. The world you live in versus the world you want to live in. It takes guts to strip everything away and take a hard, honest look at your life and the world around you."
Continuing, "Everyone has things that hold them down and things that seem to hold their reality in place. Habits, social circles, vices, beliefs, political systems, traumas, etc. Those things will be different for everyone. But the one constant is that action begets action and inaction begets inaction. You either drown in complacency or burn parts of yourself away to create a better world. We all have a choice. Musically, we felt like this concept fit perfectly with where we were at. We all have different inspirations that we want to bring into Fox Lake. It can be tricky to mesh together all the genres that we're inspired by while still having an original sound."
The band finishes, "So for this record, we burned down the limitations we had previously put on ourselves and restarted our writing process with a singular goal, to sound like Fox Lake. The end result is an album that we're extremely excited about and that feels very authentic to us. The music is faster, heavier, groovier, and catchier than ever before. It's a new sound for a new world. Everyone is going to have different opinions on whether the band is more hardcore, nu-metal, rock or metalcore. But everyone's gonna know it's Fox Lake."
To support New World Heat, Fox Lake will hit the road hard on a headline tour of the USA. Find out more info and dates here.
Watch previous singles, 'Savior' here, 'Cold Hard Truth' here, 'Pure Adrenaline' here and 'Freestyle' here.
Fox Lake online:
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Tracklisting:
1) For The Love of the Game
2) Tough Luck
3) Freestyle
4) Go 4 The Throat
5) Cold Hard Truth
6) Real Fast
7) h a l f t i m e
8) Pure Adrenaline
9) Headshot
10) Savior
11) Gut Check
12) Excessive Damage
