DRAGGED UNDER nail the current state of affairs with “AlgoRHYTHM”

Photo: Monte Legaspi

The Seattle scene is sounding lush at the moment with a breadth of bands from The Home Team to Dragged Under defining the new era of this musical City. Building on their debut album ‘The World Is In Your Way’ the band deliver heavy riffs and hardcore flavours in a brilliant modern take on heavy music. Already playing festivals across the globe and supporting the likes of Beartooth, Pierce The Veil and From Ashes To New, you can already start building a picture of their sonic style. What you can’t get from reading words though is the brillant social commentary and highly defined take on the craziness of the modern era and tech.

Speaking of the song, singer Tony Cappochhi says “smashes together all of the elements that make Dragged Under such a formidable force and returns to their roots of their breakout debut album The World Is In Your Way – crushing riffs, whiplash hooks, raging hardcore vocals and pinpoint social observations. “AlgoRHYTHM is a commentary on the current meta of music promotion”. He adds “scrolling endlessly on artist accounts online only to see the same uninspired dancing and lip syncing to their newest song until inevitably it hits and goes viral or they move on. It almost feels as if artists don’t have to write good music, or don’t challenge themselves to create something they’re actually interested in, instead they’re writing FOR the Algorithms, with the end goal being “success at any cost””.

Watch their clever take on doom-scrolling, FYP nod on algorithmic life in the video to “AlgoRHYTHM”: