In less than 12 months, Glaswegian stompers Heavy Hands have made a sizeable indent on the hardcore scene already. They've played a small handful of shows, mainly in Scotland, and had a couple of demo songs floating around the internet that have done the rounds and garnered a lot of attention. You might be familiar with early tracks 'Concrete Roots' and 'Judas', and if so you'll agree their sudden notoriety is not short of substance. Their debut EP is released Feb 9, when they'll be playing a show with some of UK hardcore's biggest hitters (poster below).
So how does their debut self-titled EP hold up? Lyrically, it's built on being positive in hard times, and occasionally wanting to kick people's heads in during hard times. Basically, it's a strong continuation of what we've already heard from them. 'Declaration' is closest to their demo songs with pangs of 'Concrete Roots', but it's much tougher with heftier mosh vibes.
If you're already a Heavy Hands fan, I can assure these 3 tracks all add something new. Aptly-titled opener 'Step It Up' is two minutes of condensed crowd-killing, two-stepping fodder. Seriously, this is going to be one of those live songs that you'll still love even when someone is forcing their size 9 Nike down your throat at a show.
"if I give up and accept defeat/then I'm already dead meat". Final track 'Blue Blooded Scum' is their largest effort yet. It features By My Hands frontman Chris Myler doing his thing by pre-emptively setting up stage-crushing gang vocals everywhere Heavy Hands visit from now on.
6 minutes later it's over, and it's not nearly enough. "Glasgow hardcore, CSHC, Kick someone in the fucking teeth!" Learn the words, travel to a show and feed someone your elbow.
Keep your eyes peeled over at Pinky Swear Records and Thanks For Nothing Records to pick a copy of this 7" when it's released. Record collecting junkies take note there's very limited amounts of hand drawn and handmade covers at the record release show and on preorder respectively.
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