Rising punk band Heart Attack Man has today shared the title track from their forthcoming album. “Joyride The Pale Horse” is out now, along with a brand new music video.
“This song ended up really feeling like the combination of all the ideas and feelings present throughout the album; hence why it’s the title track, and why it felt fitting to have it be the closer,” shares front man Eric Egan. “Ironically enough, it was the first song written for this album, and in many ways set a lot of the energy into motion. The overarching idea with this one was to feel like a melodramatic addressing of death without actually calling it by name and making different creative allusions to death itself. This album is a litany of musings on life and death, and how there’s an abundance of ways to work through any of them.” About Heart Attack Man
Exploring our existential fate, Heart Attack Man ponder not just death, but life in between the crunch of palm-muted pop-punk guitar chords and snappy hooks you just can’t shake. As such, the Cleveland, OH trio—Eric Egan [vocals, guitar], Adam Paduch [drums], and Ty Sickels [guitar]—stare down fate with an ear-to-ear smile on their fourth full-length LP, Joyride the Pale Horse [Many Hats Distribution].
Since emerging in 2014, Heart Attack Man have consistently sharpened their signature style to knife-point precision with clever lyrics as incisive as their airtight songcraft. This sound naturally progressed across Acid Rain EP, The Manson Family, Fake Blood, Thoughts & Prayerz EP, and Freak of Nature. Of the latter, Cleveland Magazine urged, “expect to find the high-energy, simmering pop-punk stylings that the band has established in the past few years — just, with more input and new flair.” Brooklyn Vegan christened them “a rare band who feel catchy enough for arenas and punk enough for basements all at once,” and OnesToWatch applauded their “enigmatic instrumentation and cutting lyrics.” Along the way, ceaseless touring shored up a devout audience behind them, and they amassed millions of streams.
In 2024, the guys opted to reunite with producer Brett Romnes at The Barbershop studio in New Jersey. Musically, they nodded to inspirations as diverse as Hum and Failure as well as Type O Negative, Quicksand, and Unwritten Law. Pushing boundaries, they incorporated different time signatures and coated the soundscape with a thick dose of nineties fuzz. In the end, Heart Attack Man sound as alive as ever.
“When it comes to this band, it feels like everything we’ve done prepared us for this moment,” he leaves off. “We know what we want to do and who we are. We don’t want to know what life looks like without playing music.”
"Joyride The Pale Horse", the 4th studio album from Heart Attack Man, is set to be released on April 25th. Pre-orders for the new album, including two exclusive vinyl variants and exclusive merch, are available now here.