Heavy Song of the Week: F**ked Up Bring Progressive Hardcore to “Good Goat Saw a Leaf”

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. This week, we highlight the new single “Good Goat Saw a Leaf” from Fucked Up. Fucked Up have for the past 20 years been slowly constructing a series of albums based on the Zodiac in parallel to their primary catalog. For years both in coverage and in a lot of fan spaces, these releases were overlooked, with eyes predominantly focusing on records like The Hidden World, The Chemistry of Common Life and David Come to Life. But in the background, a dense and polyphonic sonic world was being stitched together by the band, weaving elements of alternative rock, hardcore, prog, folk, sludge metal and even, as of Year of the Goat, Iron Maiden-style heavy metal. “Good Goat Saw a Leaf,” one of the two lead singles from their 12th and final Zodiac record Year of the Rooster, wields all of those and more in a single five-minute clusterbomb of musical ideas. The ambition of this closing project, using three Zodiac releases to tell a single gargantuan 5-hour story over a mere 10 epic-length tracks drawing together not just all of the Zodiac records but al...