Knocked Loose – “Deep In the Willow” b/w “Everything Is Quiet Now”

From the other side of the turnstile, Knocked Loose are arguably one of the biggest breakout modern crossover metalcore bands in recent memory, getting themselves booked all over the map on arena stages alongside Bring Me the Horizon and $uicideboy$, and even turning a Coachella tent crowd inside-out this past year twice-over. “Deep In the Willow” and “Everything Is Quiet Now”, two new singles that will collectively make up their forthcoming Upon Loss 10″, are a reminder that the Louisville quintet are heavy as fuck regardless of where their recent artistic detours and commercial access blistering from 2019′s A Different Shade of Blue and 2021′s A Tear In the Fabric of Life extended play have brought them. On the former, a terrifying monster-conjuring from the pit of despair and betrayal summed up in its pre-chorus: “Fuck you / True colors shown / And I’m not impressed.” As for “Everything Is Quiet Now”, it very much is not that, intensifying in throes and ritualistic reconfigurations of the passages of the mind and body. “Upon loss, we’re reminded of Hell / Existence of pain and free will / Denial / A cancer that eats at the shell,” Bryan Garris shouts in existential breakdown – only for the void to encroach until they finally succumb to it. Consumed as a whole, these are two listens from one of heaviest’s finest who have turned nihilistic brutality into their playground.

Directed by: Eric Richter & Bryan Garris