COMEBACK KID - Heavy Steps LP (White Vinyl)

Label: Nuclear Blast

If there’s one thing you can count on when it comes to COMEBACK KID, it’s their knack for straight-up ragers. For two decades now, the Canadian five-piece have repeatedly delivered on a dependably high-octane brand of hardcore punk. Their latest album, Heavy Steps, is no exception. Arriving more than four years after 2017’s critically-acclaimed Outsider, it’s their seventh full-length, and their second with Nuclear Blast Records. True to form, it’s an album of intense forward momentum, and another worthy addition to a rock solid back catalogue.

Heavy Steps is another top quality record by a band from whom we’ve come to expect nothing less. Two decades haven’t dulled COMEBACK KID’s raw power in the slightest, and if anything they’re at the top of their game. At this rate, it feels as though the Canadians could have another 20 years in them yet, and even if that is getting ahead of ourselves a little, it’s hard not to marvel at another veteran hardcore band who are very much in the prime of their lives.