Heavy Song of the Week: Power Trip Return With Absolute Ripper “Precinct 3”

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 “Precinct 3” from Power Trip. To describe “Precinct 3” as a solid return for Power Trip would be a phenomenal understatement. The band was clearly aware of the burdens not just of expectation, being expected to follow their masterpiece Nightmare Logic, but also to live up to the legacy of their late vocalist Riley Gale. They were being asked to appease not just a real history of the band but also a hypothetical future none of us got to see; that the process to feel comfortable taking a swing took nine years is no surprise really. Thankfully, the band strikes hot with the fevered “Precinct 3,” a song that sees the band still holding their twin inspirations of hardcore and animalistic thrash. Power Trip tap into their inner Slayer, delivering riffs worthy of Hanneman and King with their fevered intensity. Then suddenly the band shifts into a mode closer to Voivod or Coroner for the closer, bringing in a subtle progressive shaping to the riff. There is a heft and violence to new singer Seth Gilmore’s voca...