Spitting Glass - 1HP | SINGLE REVIEW
- Kian Simon-Law
- Apr 8
- 2 min read
Spitting Glass fuse three of my favourite things in their debut head crushing single, “1HP”. Slam, Grind and Hardcore. For the average modern metal fan this is your bread and butter but sometimes all I want is bread and butter. No fancy frills or over the top melody, just hammer to the face, and Spitting Glass deliver that feeling in droves.
This upcoming ensemble is one to watch, with some amazing industry talent and a frankly brilliant sound. “1HP” opens with a powerful tonally dissonant punch to your ears, broken up with some tasteful pinch harmonics. That intro breaks with a swift drum fill straight into a blast beat and those vocals. Oh those vocals. Joe Bad delivers like always, Fit For an Autopsy fans rejoice. Hell, none from the Fit for an Autopsy fans rejoice, because now you’ll be craving more of this talent.
Those brutal guitar tracks blessing your ears are delivered by Chris Keepin of Osiah and David Ball of other fame, and boy do they deliver. The chugs, the bite, the anger all conveyed by their instruments, it’s such a system shock. As a guitarist myself, this song sounds so fun to play, I’ll definitely find myself trying to learn this over the coming days.
Now for the feeling. The song is full of shifts and turns, it’s almost groovy in some parts, pure just brutal death in others and then in the words of Matt Honeycutt “Slows it on down, baby.” Just before the breakdown, giving you that room to breathe letting you digest for just a second before they hit you up the back of the head with a club as if to say “You thought we were done?”
Final thoughts? It’s not enough, I need more, and I need it now!
