NEW NOISE
HERIOT
Half a decade and one false start after they first came out snarling, British metal’s most exciting young band are back – retooled, resurrected and reborn
WORDS: DANNII LEIVERS PICTURE: HARRY STEEL
WHEN HERIOT RELEASED the single Cleansed Existence back in 2020, the metal world lost its shit. A disgustingly crushing new take on metallic hardcore with scorching, skin-on-fire vocals, manic solos and a sludgy breakdown, it marked the band as an exciting new hope in less than two minutes. They followed it up with visceral singles Recreant and Dispirit last year, and when the Birmingham/Swindon upstarts supported Svalbard on their late-2021 UK tour, social media was awash with almost as many gushing platitudes for them as for the headliners themselves. With expectations sky-high for forthcoming EP Profound Morality, introducing themselves to the world really couldn’t have gone any better.