One month out from the arrival of Knocked Loose's next album, You Won't Go Before You're Supposed to, the Kentucky wrecking crew are hitting out with another punishing pre-release single. Described by frontman Bryan Garris as "the meanest song I've ever written," it's an all-volume warning shot titled "Don't Reach for Me."
The new single works through a blur of spine-compounding motifs, from gum-soled mosh-bounding and warp-speed blasting, to a thick-as-tar backend breakdown. Through it all, Garris is firing off a series of high-pitched howls about not messing with him or his family.
The metallic missive, the singer explained in a press statement, is about "someone who tried their hardest to come into my life and mess with two out of the three closest people I have."
The video, meanwhile, finds the band holed up in a church, and hunting down an enemy while armed with cinder blocks, hanging nooses, axes and baseball bats. You can see the plaster-shivving, glass-smashing results from inside the holy house in the player up above.
As previously reported, You Won't Go Before You're Supposed to is Knocked Loose's first full-length since 2019's A Different Shade of Blue. The album features guest appearances from Motionless in White frontman Chris Motionless and post-everything performer Poppy, and arrives May 10th through Pure Noise Records.
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