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Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. For our first rundown of 2026, we highlight Black Veil Brides’ new single “Certainty.”
“Certainty” is certainly one of the best songs by Black Veil Brides to date. Forget that this is the same band from their 2010 debut album We Stitch These Wounds, because this doesn’t sound anything like that, nor is it remotely screamo. Rather, we get high caliber melodic metalcore with some nice alt-rock inflections via the clean singing of vocalist Andy Biersack. He sounds equally strong during the harsh, chuggy parts here, as well.
“The concept of ‘Certainty’ is central to this record and appears throughout the album,” stated Biersack in a press release. “The song was inspired by the film Conclave, particularly its reflections on religious certainty and how rigid belief systems can become prisons of our own making. When certainty hardens, curiosity, growth, and the willingness to change become impossible. Much of today’s political and social discourse exists inside these echo chambers of absolute belief, and that tension drives the narrative of this record.”
BVB made an impressive artistic leap with 2021’s The Phantom Tomorrow and look to be following suit with their forthcoming seventh album (more information on its release is coming “soon,” according to the band). Stream “Certainty” below.
Honorable Mentions:
Alter Bridge – “Scales Are Falling”
Alter Bridge get to stretch out on the six-minute “Scales Are Falling,” which we can’t help but take as a guitar reference — especially considering the fact that both Mark Tremonti and frontman Myles Kennedy each get some spotlight axework on the song. “It has an atmospheric vibe with a lot of peaks, valleys, and moods,” remarked Tremonti in a press release. “I solo over the bridge, and Myles plays the outro.” For more where that came from, Alter Bridge’s new album is out today.
Fotocrime – “Plowjob”
Louisville’s Fotocrime are set to release their fifth album, Security, on March 13th, and the LP’s first teaser comes in the form of “Plowjob” — a minimal post-punk workout with industrial elements and cold, atmospheric production. Ryan Patterson’s gothy deadpan is the perfect delivery for his dark lyrics about a disenfranchised “renegade” who resorts to violence with a “flamethrower” and a “manifesto in a manilla folder.”
Puscifer – “ImpetuoUs”
You can tell that Maynard and Puscifer definitely listened to those goth and new wave playlists while writing Normal Isn’t, letting it all seep into their creative pores. The textures on their spacey new single “ImpetuoUs” — percolating synths, deliberate guitar stabs, and steady drum machine rhythms — very much conjure the goth and post-punk sounds heard on Maynard’s playlist, in particular, and also align with the sonic direction explored on the previous two singles. Going off all three, the album is setting up to be a cohesive, moody effort.
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