COMEBACK KID
Heavy Steps NUCLEAR BLAST
Canada’s hardcore punk standard-bearers go back to basics
Comeback Kid get some perspective on their early sound
PRESS
COMING FIVE YEARS after the divisive and slightly more experimental Outsider album, Canadian punk legends Comeback Kid appear to have re-evaluated their sound and decided that, actually, writing big anthemic slabs of melodic hardcore is very much where their bread is buttered. Heavy Steps is definitely a far more recognisably Comeback Kid-sounding record than its predecessor. And whilst some artists going back to their core sound can be an admittance that they’ve run out of ideas, here it just feels like the band are playing very much to their strengths by giving us something familiar.