The Bad Penny (beta)

Roughly five years after their inception in London, post-metal unit Burner are quickly drawing the attention of fans of heavy music who have big hearts and big brains. Vocalist and lyricist Harry Nott recently checked in with The Bad Penny after last month’s release of Burner’s second full-length, No One Is Coming to Save Us (anyone else notice the Send Help reference?).

Nott’s prerogative could not be clear: to combat the cycles of violence and hate that all of us need to break in order to progress toward a more hopeful future across the world as authoritarianism continues to gain a foothold virtually everywhere. “We’re going through this horrible, horrible game where [social media] engagement is becoming this … end goal, and the means are just continuously being justified [to promote] rage bait and reactionary, racist content and stuff that is purposefully inciting hate of a certain people or harmful stereotypes,” the consummately articulate Nott says.

Grab a copy of Burner’s new release – which features collaborations with vocalists Matthew K. Heafy of Trivium, Josh Middleton of Sylosis and Anthony Lucero of Cult Leader – here.

Check out loads more editions of On Tyranny – including interviews with Moonspell, Nequient, Brokedowns, Chairmaker, Chasing Abbey, Crippled Black Phoenix, Ratboys, J. Robbins and about 100 more artists – here.

Finally, delve deep into the catalog of one of heavy music’s hottest labels of the moment, Church Road Records, here.

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