Mad About Rock

  Today, Chicago's Meat Wave return with a second taster of their first album in over five years, Malign Hex, ahead of its October 14th release via Big Scary Monsters. This time out, it's the tumultuous '10k' getting an airing: a driving, searing 3.5 minutes of blistering punk rock that could very easily serve as the album's title track - a definitive document of the series of malign hexes struck through the record. Of the track, Meat Wave's Chris Sutter (guitar, vocals) offers: "'10k' is about being alive for 10,000 days, which is around your 28th birthday. Feels like a long time - but is it? You feel like you know so much about life and navigating through it - but do you? Nah, not really. The title of the record directly relates to '10k'. "A malign hex pertains to your lineage. It’s something that is pertinent to only you, it’s handed down to you, or was raised in you. In that way, and pertaining to the record as a whole, I’d like to ...