HEAVY//HITTER ANNOUNCE COMING TO TERMS EP OUT OCTOBER 10
BAND SHARES VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK FEATURING ZAYNA YOUSSEF OF SWEET PILL — WATCH
TOURING THROUGH FALL
Orlando, Florida juggernauts HEAVY//HITTER — Austin Hayes [vocals], Dane Loeprich [guitar], Chris Perez [bass], and Josh Archeval [drums] — are stoked to announce their new EP, Coming to Terms. It arrives October 10 via Blue Grape Music. Pre-order it here.
Today, the band has shared the video for the title track, featuring Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill.
The song tosses and turns on waves of seasick swaying distortion before slipping into the undertow of a bludgeoning breakdown. Hayes’ guttural groan gives way to seismic scream courtesy of Youssef, who defiantly spits back, “I don’t care what you think or say…you are coming to terms!”
“You’ve defeated the demons you had in your closet, and you’ve survived backstabbing, bad relationships, and all of life’s troubles,” Hayes explains. “You’re older now, and you come out on the other side much stronger as a better person. You’re confident and can face whatever is coming at you. Zayna added another dynamic, which is pretty powerful.”
The vinyl will also be available to pre-order. The A Side is the Coming to Terms EP and the B Side is the band’s previously released Moments of Misery EP.
COMING TO TERMS EP TRACK LISTING:
“Eat Your Words”
“Nurtured By Anger”
“Coming To Terms” (Feat. Zayna Youssef of Sweet Pill)
“…From Bloodlust” (Feat. Yasmine Liverneaux of Face Yourself)
“Extinguish Them All”
HEAVY//HITTER will be touring throughout the fall. All dates are below.
HEAVY//HITTER ON TOUR:
10/7 — Cleveland, OH — Grog Shop
10/8 — Indianapolis, IN — Black Circle
10/9 — St. Louis, MO — Red Flag
10/11 — Oklahoma City, OK — 89th Street Collective
10/12 — Dallas, TX — RBC
10/13 — Corpus Christi, TX — The Rock House
10/14 — Austin, TX — Come and Take It Live
10/15 — Houston, TX — The End
10/16 — Little Rock, AR — Rev Room
10/17 — Summerville, SC — The Trolley Pub
10/18 — Wilmington, SC — Reggie’s
10/19 — Virginia Beach, VA — Scandals
10/21 — Boston, MA — Rockwell
10/22 — Brooklyn, NY — Meadows
10/23 — Baltimore, MD — Zen West
10/24 — Pittsburgh, PA — Preserving
10/25 — Columbus, OH — Ace of Cups
10/26 — Chicago, IL — Beat Kitchen
10/28 — Nashville, TN — Arcane Works
10/29 — Birmingham, AL — Workplay
10/30 — Atlanta, GA — Purgatory @ The Masquerade
10/31 — Pensacola, FL — American Legion Post 33
11/1 — Orlando, FL — Conduit
11/2 — Miami, FL — American Legion 92
ABOUT HEAVY//HITTER:
This Orlando deathcore outfit is all about looking for the silver lining to the storm cloud with the Coming to Terms EP. “The whole EP is about coming to terms with who you are, who you’re going to be, and who you used to be,” says Hayes. “There’s always hope, which is the overall theme. No matter what’s happening in your life, things will improve. A year from now, you’re going to look back and realize how far you’ve come. Two years from now, it will be even more different. For as brutal as it is, we didn’t want to write about life being shitty; we wanted to write about life being shitty but getting better.”
Heavy//Hitter initially emerged from the Florida scene during 2019, with a hybrid of bone-breaking deathcore and tightly executed extreme metal. Following 2021’s Street Violence EP, they inked a deal with Blue Grape Music in 2024 and unleashed the Moments of Misery EP to widespread acclaim. Revolver hailed the single “No Mercy, No Remorse” as “a revenge-driven beatdown anthem that ultimately ramps up towards a gnarly set of blasts and chromatic riff-shivving,” while New Noise Magazine declared, “This raging metal unit has taken a life of its own.” They also packed houses on tour across the United States, Canada, and Europe with the likes of Carnifex In the Spring of 2025, the musicians traded the East Coast for the West Coast, spending two weeks in Los Angeles where they recorded Coming To Terms with producer Austin Coupe [The Devil Wears Prada, Silverstein]. Throughout the sessions, the band honed their signature style to knifepoint precision.
