Australia is home to A LOT of great metalcore bands, and one of those bands is In Hearts Wake. While they have certainly gotten a lot of views on some of their music videos on YouTube, they still haven't quite hit the commercial success that I strongly feel like they should've hit by now. In Hearts Wake has released 2 EPs, 2 split EPs, and 4 full length albums since 2007. Their first 2 EPs came out in 2007 and 2008 when the band members were still in high school. After a few years, they released their debut album with UNFD record company in 2012 entitled Divination. This was a great debut album for the band that helped put them on the map and even featured a few big name guest vocalists such as Winston McCall, Garret Rapp, and Adrian Fitipaldes.
In Hearts Wake is another band with very influential lyrics. A big common theme for them is environmentalism, they are definitely the most eco friendly band out there. They even went around and got a bunch of fans to join them in cleaning out trash in different areas such as the land and water systems of the cities they were touring in in Australia earlier this year. On top of that though they deal with a lot of social issues as well in their lyrics. The best example and my favorite song by them is their song Healer. "No hate, no fear of anyone. All we need is to live and forgive everyone, everything that holds us back. No hate, no fear of anything." This is such a powerful message that should not go unnoticed by anyone, especially in light of what's all going on in the world right now. As you could guess, this a song that talks about healing us of all the hate in the world.
A combination between great, meaningful lyrics, as well as Jake's powerful screams and Kyle's beautifully sung cleans, In Hearts Wake is a band that I encourage everyone to check out! You can strongly sense an inspiration from fellow Aussie metalcore bands Parkway Drive and Northlane and that is most definitely a good thing! They have that perfect flow of elements from both of those bands in their style, they're hard hitting and heavy just like Parkway Drive, and they slow the tempo down a bit for some songs to chill out to that give the song a Northlane like feel. They even did a split EP with Northlane in 2016 and I strongly encourage you give it a listen, it's only 3 songs so it won't take long to listen! One last note about In Hearts Wake, they'll be in Lawrence with Fit For A King at The Bottleneck on December 15th so I hope to see some of you there!
As talked about earlier, here's Healer off of their 2014 album Earthwalker.
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