Heavy Halo's new single "The Poisoning" is streaming now.
"The Poisoning" is the third track to be revealed from the NYC duo's upcoming new album, Damaged Dream.
Damaged Dream will be released in 2025 on Silent Pendulum Records.
Stream "The Poisoning" on all digital platforms, here:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/heavyhalo/the-poisoning
Stream the song's official visualizer, here:
Stream the song's official visualizer, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8Ba53adpg
Pre-order the new album, here:
Pre-order the new album, here:
https://silentpendulumrecords.com/collections/heavy-halo
From New York City, Heavy Halo is the alliance of vocalist McKeever and producer Gosteffects. Together, the two conjure an industrialized strain of alt-rock that unites human and machine in highly compelling ways.
In the words of an October 2024 article from Revolver Magazine, the sound is a glorious mix of "chunky riffs and EBM-panicked beatwork" and "nihilistic yet melodic vocals about diving headfirst into the chaos that surrounds us every day."
New single "The Poisoning" showcases the band's melodic side, with McKeever's yearning vocals pointing to influences such as Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure.
Idioteq reports: "Brooklyn’s Heavy Halo continues to blur the boundaries between human and machine with their new single, 'The Poisoning'... Despite their reverence for the past, Heavy Halo’s offering feels forward-facing, sharing space with artists like HEALTH and Poppy, who explore the intersection of human emotion and digital chaos."
Heavy Halo vocalist McKeever gives this statement about the song: "At night you're kept awake haunted by memories of all your past selves and the various lives you've lived. You're confronted with the strangeness of being in the current moment with all those ghosts in the rearview. 'The Poisoning' is about the compulsion to outrun these anxious thoughts and hyper-fixations through the ritual of escapist excess. Self-destruction never truly cures the existential angst but in the moment, you believe it just might."
The visualizer serves as a tribute to a friend of the band. McKeever state: "The visualizer features various photos of our friends with the Heavy Halo tattoo, including one of our closest friends and biggest supporters Sian Austin, who tragically passed away around this time last year. He was an unreal musician of rare versatility and champion of DIY culture who lived his life 'on the edge of the knife' with a flame that burned like a supernova."
A perfectly odd couple, the native New Yorker McKeever is a Columbia University-educated composer and vocalist who spent a decade entrenched in Brooklyn's indie rock scene, while Gosteffects cut his teeth DJ'ing and promoting illegal raves in Oklahoma. The unlikely pair met at a goth party in Brooklyn and instantly put their chemistry to action.
The follow-up to 2022's self-titled debut album, the upcoming Damaged Dream was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Gosteffects at his own studio, Spellsound Studios, located in a historic 19th-century hospital building in Brooklyn, where he has also created official remixes for the likes of Duran Duran.
From New York City, Heavy Halo is the alliance of vocalist McKeever and producer Gosteffects. Together, the two conjure an industrialized strain of alt-rock that unites human and machine in highly compelling ways.
In the words of an October 2024 article from Revolver Magazine, the sound is a glorious mix of "chunky riffs and EBM-panicked beatwork" and "nihilistic yet melodic vocals about diving headfirst into the chaos that surrounds us every day."
New single "The Poisoning" showcases the band's melodic side, with McKeever's yearning vocals pointing to influences such as Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure.
Idioteq reports: "Brooklyn’s Heavy Halo continues to blur the boundaries between human and machine with their new single, 'The Poisoning'... Despite their reverence for the past, Heavy Halo’s offering feels forward-facing, sharing space with artists like HEALTH and Poppy, who explore the intersection of human emotion and digital chaos."
Heavy Halo vocalist McKeever gives this statement about the song: "At night you're kept awake haunted by memories of all your past selves and the various lives you've lived. You're confronted with the strangeness of being in the current moment with all those ghosts in the rearview. 'The Poisoning' is about the compulsion to outrun these anxious thoughts and hyper-fixations through the ritual of escapist excess. Self-destruction never truly cures the existential angst but in the moment, you believe it just might."
The visualizer serves as a tribute to a friend of the band. McKeever state: "The visualizer features various photos of our friends with the Heavy Halo tattoo, including one of our closest friends and biggest supporters Sian Austin, who tragically passed away around this time last year. He was an unreal musician of rare versatility and champion of DIY culture who lived his life 'on the edge of the knife' with a flame that burned like a supernova."
A perfectly odd couple, the native New Yorker McKeever is a Columbia University-educated composer and vocalist who spent a decade entrenched in Brooklyn's indie rock scene, while Gosteffects cut his teeth DJ'ing and promoting illegal raves in Oklahoma. The unlikely pair met at a goth party in Brooklyn and instantly put their chemistry to action.
The follow-up to 2022's self-titled debut album, the upcoming Damaged Dream was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Gosteffects at his own studio, Spellsound Studios, located in a historic 19th-century hospital building in Brooklyn, where he has also created official remixes for the likes of Duran Duran.
See Heavy Halo live, January 9th at TV Eye in Queens, NY, with Deli Girls:
