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Boston's melodic punk rockers Oh the Humanity! have released another single before their upcoming album is released in January. "Upper Riffspiratory Infection," which may be a favorite song title in a while, is a hard and fast punk track that's equally as melodic. The music comes at you much faster than the vocals, but Oh the Humanity! make that work. Plus, as the title suggests, the song is quite riff heavy. It's that perfect mix of punk and thrash that is what we love about the band. You get hard and fast music, shout along gang vocals, riffs that would sound at home in an 80's metal song, and more melody than should be possible in such a song, all crammed into under three minutes. The band says of their latest single: "Upper Riffspiratory Infection is a song about wanting to be present but being stuck in the past. Dwelling on things long since forgotten by most but not you, and those old demons haunting your present. This song is a straight up punk roc...

There's just something about punk bands that add in some thrashy metal that just works for me. That's where Oh the Humanity! come in. The Boston band have been around since 2012, and their latest single, "Gutted," starts off as a melodic punk track. It's a driving track with shout along choruses and is surprisingly catchy. And then the metal guitars kick in. It's a very slow process, but as the guitar edges into metal more and more, the song just gets cooler and more fun. The song as all of the serious side of punk, especially heavy punk, but the fun of noodling heavy metal. "Gutted" is quite simply a great song that exists in both the worlds of punk and metal without blurring the lines at all. Oh the Humanity! say of their latest single: "'Gutted' is a song about self loathing, self improvement, and an inability to forgive yourself. Wrestling with the person you are, the person you were and the person you want to be. These themes are st...