Spitbite – False Gods (Dimed)
14 August 2024
spit bite work their sonic magic where all sorts of harder and heavier forms of music come together and fuse into their own distinctive sound that can expand in any direction, be it metal, grunge, stoner rock or even more post-rock forms. But it also means they can look forward and create music for the present, while also tipping their collective hat to the sounds of the past. Nowhere is this duality more present than in their latest single “False Gods”.
For all its obvious modernity, there is a sound in it that I cannot shake off, a kind of buoyant up-and-down that has served the harder end of rock music well, from the later, harder productions of people like Thin Lizzy To Metallicas more complex forms, a whole wave of bands that made up the British scene of the early eighties, known as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and up to modern alt-rock in all its forms.
False Gods has the same reach and scope, the same complexity and intrigue, the same blend of melody and power as those previous bands, but for every resonant riff or thunderous drum pattern that seems to recall those earlier times, there are plenty of more modern sounds at work. There’s no shortage of cavernous, almost post-rock walls of sound here, dark, alternative rock vocal intensity, and even hints of the nu-metal sonic revolution.
But for me it all comes down to this beautiful, buoyant sound. Despite the complexity and sophistication, the changes in sound and unpredictable changes and all the other intelligent movements of sound, it is this primal sound, the swinging, the ritual hidden at its core that makes you want to dance that appeals to me the most. And that’s why I love the song all the more.
Music is more than just sounds and words; it is shamanistic, primitive and ritualistic, and hardly any song has felt more like a hymn to the old masters of dance than “False Gods”.
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