Whenever Fox Lake release something new, you know it’s going straight onto that playlist built for speed, sweat, and rage. And yeah — no disappointment here. “Pure Adrenaline” delivers exactly what it promises: heavy groove, full throttle pace, and a taste of what’s to come with their new album New World Heat, out August 1 via MNRK Heavy.
The track came together late in the process, but it had been lurking for years. “Even though ‘Pure Adrenaline’ didn’t come together until the latter half of the recording process for the album, most of the ingredients existed as far back as 2021,” the band shares. “The majority of the instrumental demo was written years ago, and the lyrics and energy were conceptualized in our first few conversations about what we wanted to bring to this album.”
That shared vision was locked in early: “We all came together and unanimously agreed that we wanted the new songs to be faster, more visceral, more concrete, and most importantly, all gas, no brakes. Pure f**king adrenaline.”
That energy lands like a boot to the chest — thick riff bounce, breakneck delivery, and no space for hesitation. But Fox Lake aren’t just going harder for the sake of it. The themes on New World Heat speak to tearing things down to start again. “The basic concept of the album is about burning things down in order to restart. It’s about who you are versus who you want to be. The world you live in versus the world you want to live in.”
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They get specific about what that means. “Everyone has things that hold them down and things that seem to hold their reality in place. Habits, social circles, vices, beliefs, political systems, traumas, etc. Those things will be different for everyone. But the one constant is that action begets action and inaction begets inaction. You either drown in complacency or burn parts of yourself away to create a better world.”
The band leaned into that concept musically too, wiping the slate and starting fresh with one aim: to sound like themselves. “We burned down the limitations we had previously put on ourselves and restarted our writing process with a singular goal — to sound like Fox Lake.” They add, “The music is faster, heavier, groovier, and catchier than ever before. It’s a new sound for a new world.”
Whether people tag it as nu-metal, metalcore, hardcore, or something else — doesn’t matter to them. “Everyone’s gonna know it’s Fox Lake.”
The album drops August 1. Tour dates incoming.
