Local Punk Rockers Heart Attack Man To Tour Australia, UK and North America

Local punk rockers Heart Attack Man just released “The Gallows,” another terrific new single from their forthcoming album, Joyride the Pale Horse. The group has put out a lyric video to the rousing tune as well.

“This song explores familiar themes of triumphing over the darkness and despair of young adulthood in an energetic, conversational way,” says singer Eric Egan in a press release about the single and forthcoming album. “It’s kind of meant to be the pep talk of the album.”

Pre-orders for the new album, including two exclusive vinyl variants and exclusive merch, are available now.

To support the album, the band will tour Australia supporting Dear Seattle before heading to the UK with Free Throw and playing the Slam Dunk Music Festival.

Upon their return to North America, they’ll embark on a headlining tour featuring special guests the Dirty Nil, carpool and Dear Seattle. The tour kicks off on June 4 in Pittsburgh. The tour does not include a Cleveland date, but Heart Attack Man will play a special fans-only release party at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 25, at Mahall’s 20 Lanes in Lakewood. Only 50 winners will be able to attend.

For the album, the group’s fourth full-length, the band reunited with producer Brett Romnes at theBarbershop studio in New Jersey.

“Spit,” one album highlight, opens with the line “Kill me and replace me with a hologram. No one will ever know the difference, much less even give a damn.”

“It gets into A.I.,” Egan explains in reference to the tune. “What does A.I. mean for the creative process? Is it the end of human creativity? ‘Spit’ is a tongue-in-cheek sarcastic confrontation. I don’t like the idea of everyone relying on robots more and more. It’s my snarky pushback.”

The album concludes with the title track, a pop-punk song that “encapsulates” the album, as Egan puts it.

“When it comes to this band, it feels like everything we’ve done prepared us for this moment,” he says. “We know what we want to do and who we are. We don’t want to know what life looks like without playing music.”