Bleak resurrected 31-year-old riffs with unholy volition in ‘The Wave’

After incubating their sonic brainchild for 31 years, Bleak exhibited themselves as the true tempests of hard-hitting, straight-cut rock with The Wave. There’s no desperation for reinvention, no cloying clinging to past epochs, only the timeless resolve of tumultuous rhythmic augmentation and precision. With brief echoes of Foo Fighters in the anthemics, Guns N’ Roses in the magnetism of the atmospheric production, and the volition of Metallica, The Wave carries influence like flotsam while crashing onto the shores of your speakers with unfeigned originality. It is easily the most pit-worthy rock single of 2025 so far. The chord progressions surge instead of flow, each strike loaded with an urgency sharpened over decades. Vocals reach the epitome of hell-bent, yet paradoxically keep command of restraint with an unholy precision by any pious figure’s measure. This is the sound of a band that has been through dissolution, resurrection, and the kind of slow-burning evolution that scorches off all pretence. Written in 1994 and released in 2025, The Wave was forged from a vault of riffs cracked open by frontman Caleb Daniel Lit and original guitarist Warden after 16 years away from the spotlight. Now rebuilt from the bones with a sharpened lineup, […] The post Bleak resurrected 31-year-old riffs with unholy volition in ‘The Wave’ appeared first on A&R Factory.

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After incubating their sonic brainchild for 31 years, Bleak exhibited themselves as the true tempests of hard-hitting, straight-cut rock with The Wave. There’s no desperation for reinvention, no cloying clinging to past epochs, only the timeless resolve of tumultuous rhythmic augmentation and precision. With brief echoes of Foo Fighters in the anthemics, Guns N’ Roses in the magnetism of the atmospheric production, and the volition of Metallica, The Wave carries influence like flotsam while crashing onto the shores of your speakers with unfeigned originality. It is easily the most pit-worthy rock single of 2025 so far. The chord progressions surge instead of flow, each strike loaded with an urgency sharpened over decades. Vocals reach the epitome of hell-bent, yet paradoxically keep command of restraint with an unholy precision by any pious figure’s measure. This is the sound of a band that has been through dissolution, resurrection, and the kind of slow-burning evolution that scorches off all pretence. Written in 1994 and released in 2025, The Wave was forged from a vault of riffs cracked open by frontman Caleb Daniel Lit and original guitarist Warden after 16 years away from the spotlight. Now rebuilt from the bones with a sharpened lineup, […]

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