Heavy Halo want to help liberate you from the black hole of unfulfilled destiny with their darkly empowering new single and video Erase Yr Fate — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The second single and preview of their New York City duo’s upcoming album Damaged Dream, Erase Yr Fate occupies a space where alt-rock, post-punk, industrial, goth, metal, EDM and more all meet — an underground lair fashioned by producer Gosteffects. It’s a dungeon where the drum machines relentlessly hammer out irresistible grooves, the synths pulse and throb and swarm like insects, and the guitars are sharper than the spikes on a punk’s wristband. As these elements swirl and surround you, vocalist McKeever paints a lyrical picture of loneliness and anguish — but with an escape hatch hidden inside the soaring melody of its anthemic chorus:
“Isolate, take in the pain…
Alienate, now you’re all alone
In a void, fill it with noise…
Erase yr fate, annihilate
Escape the cage, it’s not too late
Erase yr fate, regenerate.”
“The vast emptiness of mental isolation. The weightlessness of drifting through shades of melancholy, endlessly cycling like phases of the moon. When the two sides of the cursed coin of depression and anxiety have you in their icy grip, you’re a cosmonaut falling away from the warmth of home, air supply running low, locked in the unknown,” explains McKeever. “Erase Yr Fate was inspired by these alienated feelings, and by binge-watching every space movie possible: 2001, Solaris, Interstellar…”
A perfectly odd couple, native New Yorker McKeever is a Columbia-educated composer and vocalist who spent a decade entrenched in Brooklyn’s indie-rock scene, while Gosteffects cut his teeth DJing and promoting illegal raves in Oklahoma. The unlikely pair met at a goth party in Brooklyn and instantly put their chemistry to action. Together, the two conjure an industrialized strain of alt-rock that unites human and machine in highly compelling ways. “A raw human core encased in an exoskeleton of dense layers of futuristic electronics,” is McKeever’s description of Heavy Halo’s approach. “This contrast is what excites us,” he declares.
While their jagged guitars and raw electronics reference the likes of Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM and The Prodigy, yearning melodic vocals reflect childhoods spent wallowing in the angst of Smashing Pumpkins and The Cure. With that said, Heavy Halo are of the future, not the past. The band land amidst today’s most forward-thinking artists smearing lines between industrial, metal, and pop — Health, Poppy and 3Teeth, to name three. Their songs have been remixed by members of 3Teeth, as well as Atari Teenage Riot, Kontravoid, Pictureplane and more.
With one debut album under their studded belts, McKeever and Gosteffects will release Heavy Halo’s sophomore album Damaged Dream in 2025 via Silent Pendulum Records. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Gosteffects, whose production credits also include official remixes for the likes of Duran Duran.
“While our first album was ‘hell’ and fixated on descending into the dark murk, Damaged Dream is ‘purgatory,’ ” McKeever says. “The burning spirit of resilience and revenge glows deep within Erase Yr Fate. Neck craned towards the sun, bloodshot eyes gazing upwards. Despite seemingly hopeless circumstances you rage against the dying of the light and push to alter the course of the inevitable.”
Cast your bloodshot eyes on the visualizer for Erase Yr Fate above, check out the song on your preferred streamer HERE, pre-order Damaged Dream HERE, hear more from Heavy Halo below, and try them on for size at their website, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
