Heavy Steps

Comeback Kid

Comeback Kid don’t know you, but they do know what you need from a hardcore record. Ready? Here's the first line from the title track: “HEAVY STEPS ON HALLOWED GROUND!!!” A literal explosion kicks off the album and the band only increases the heat throughout. Seriously, in their 20-plus-year career, Comeback Kid have always excelled at crafting full-volume songs, but Heavy Steps shows why the term “hardcore legends” keeps getting added to their name. In many ways Heavy Steps follows the template of 2014’s career highlight Die Knowing, so the meandering song structures and lack of swagger on 2017’s Outsider have been jettisoned. Instead, Comeback Kid use a back-to-basics approach with their sharpest tools—every song is packed with adrenaline-charging, gang-shouted choruses, furious breakdowns, and brawny riffing. It’s fast, fun, stupidly heavy, and leaves you with a ramped-up heartrate and an inscrutable smile. This is a band that thrives in the live setting and knows that their reputation has already been forged in circle pits across the globe. All Comeback

Kid needed to do, and what Heavy Steps accomplishes, is to give people a reason to show up.