Torche lights new path in hard rock
Miami is known for many genres of music, from meringue to hip-hop, but hard rock and metal aren’t among them.
That in part explains why Miami’s Torche has carved out a unigue niche among connoisseurs of heavy music. Their brilliant 2008 album, “Meanderthal” (Hydra Head), ranges from the bone-rattling rumble of the title track to the brisk, Husker Du-like post-punk of “Healer.” The band’s forthcoming release, “Chapter Ahead Being Fake” (Hydra Head), a split EP with Japanese metal giants Boris, includes the track “King Beef,” with a clanging, industrial rhythm. It’ll be followed by an eight-song EP that bassist Jonathan Nunez describes as busier and more complex than anything the band has done before, another left turn in a career defined by change.
Journalists have to reach to describe the band’s sound; some call it “doom pop.” Call us anything but don’t call us metal, Nunez says.
That in part explains why Miami’s Torche has carved out a unigue niche among connoisseurs of heavy music. Their brilliant 2008 album, “Meanderthal” (Hydra Head), ranges from the bone-rattling rumble of the title track to the brisk, Husker Du-like post-punk of “Healer.” The band’s forthcoming release, “Chapter Ahead Being Fake” (Hydra Head), a split EP with Japanese metal giants Boris, includes the track “King Beef,” with a clanging, industrial rhythm. It’ll be followed by an eight-song EP that bassist Jonathan Nunez describes as busier and more complex than anything the band has done before, another left turn in a career defined by change.
Journalists have to reach to describe the band’s sound; some call it “doom pop.” Call us anything but don’t call us metal, Nunez says.