The wait is over for Joyride The Pale Horse, the latest album from rising punk band Heart Attack Man. Featuring recent singles “Joyride The Pale Horse”, “The Gallows”, “Spit”, and “Laughing Without Smiling”, Joyride The Pale Horse marks the band’s 4th studio record. Fans can purchase the album, including two exclusive vinyl variants and exclusive merch, now at https://heartattackman.com/collections/all.
Shares front man Eric Egan: “At some point in time, every author writes their last word; every comedian tells their last joke; every musician writes their last song; so on and so forth. We feel the urgency that comes with an acute awareness of death bleeds into and pumps through this entire record, and it’s our proudest accomplishment yet. As satisfying of an ending this all could be, we still feel like we’re just getting started, and it’s with great pleasure that we share our fourth record Joyride The Pale Horse with the world.”
Fans can look forward to hearing new music live for the first time as Heart Attack Man hits the road this spring. The band will be on the road in Australia supporting Dear Seattle, before heading to the UK with Free Throw and upcoming performances at Slam Dunk Music Festival.
Upon their return to North America, they’ll embark on their headlining Joyride The U.S. & Toronto & Also Vancouver tour. Featuring special guests The Dirty Nil, carpool, and Dear Seattle, the tour kicks off on June 4 in Pittsburgh, with stops to follow in Boston, Brooklyn, Orlando, Nashville, Chicago, Denver, Portland, Los Angeles, and more. Tickets for all upcoming dates are on sale now at http://www.heartattackman.com/.
About Heart Attack Man
Exploring our existential fate, Heart Attack Man ponder not just death, but life in between the crunch of palm-muted pop-punk guitar chords and snappy hooks you just can’t shake. As such, the Cleveland, OH trio—Eric Egan [vocals, guitar], Adam Paduch [drums], and Ty Sickels [guitar]—stare down fate with an ear-to-ear smile on their fourth full-length LP, Joyride the Pale Horse [Many Hats Distribution].
Since emerging in 2014, Heart Attack Man have consistently sharpened their signature style to knife-point precision with clever lyrics as incisive as their airtight songcraft. This sound naturally progressed across Acid Rain EP, The Manson Family, Fake Blood, Thoughts & Prayerz EP, and Freak of Nature. Of the latter, Cleveland Magazine urged, “expect to find the high-energy, simmering pop-punk stylings that the band has established in the past few years — just, with more input and new flair.” Brooklyn Vegan christened them “a rare band who feel catchy enough for arenas and punk enough for basements all at once,” and OnesToWatch applauded their “enigmatic instrumentation and cutting lyrics.”Along the way, ceaseless touring shored up a devout audience behind them, and they amassed millions of streams.
In 2024, the guys opted to reunite with producer Brett Romnes at The Barbershop studio in New Jersey. Musically, they nodded to inspirations as diverse as Hum and Failure as well as Type O Negative, Quicksand, and Unwritten Law. Pushing boundaries, they incorporated different time signatures and coated the soundscape with a thick dose of nineties fuzz.
The group’s mastery of dynamics shines on the single “Laughing Without Smiling.” Creaky acoustic guitar slips into the undertow of a power chord-driven chorus, “And I see you going through the motions of your life and it looks a lot like laughing without smiling.”
The trudging stomp of “Spit” opens with a self-effacing request, “Kill me and replace me with a hologram. No one will ever know the difference, much less even give a damn.” Eric’s scream takes hold on the hook, “The world you’re living in will soon be faded into memory. Spit in the face of humanity,” dissolving into an uneasy guitar lead.
“It gets into A.I.,” he reveals. “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 alternately rumbling and swaggering groove of “The Gallows” mirrors the shit-eating grin of Eric’s delivery, “Happy graduation from the gallows! You made it.”
The trip concludes with the title track. His sunny refrain belies the heavy subject matter as a morbidly sweet refrain shines, “Joyride the pale horse, I’ve got a secret handshake with Elvis.”
“It encapsulates the album,” Eric remarks. “In a way, it’s the most abstract tune. ‘Joyriding the pale horse’ sounds biblical. I’m making all of these different allusions to death, but I’m not referencing it outright.”
In the end, Heart Attack Man sound as alive as ever.
“When it comes to this band, it feels like everything we’ve done prepared us for this moment,” he leaves off. “We know what we want to do and who we are. We don’t want to know what life looks like without playing music.”
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Joyride The Pale Horse Tracklist:
1. One More Song (Imposter Syndrome)
2. End Of The Gun
3. Spit
4. Lay Down And Die
5. Laughing Without Smiling
6. Call Of The Void
7. Can’t Slow Down
8. One Good Reason
9. I’ll See You There
10. The Gallows
11. Quit While I’m Still Ahead
12. Joyride The Pale Horse
Upcoming International Tour Dates:
5/8 – North Perth, AUS @ Rosemount Hotel
5/9 – Thornbury, AUS @ The Croxton Bandroom
5/10 – Adelaide, AUS @ Jive
5/15 – Newcastle, AUS @ King Street Hotel
5/16 – Camperdown, AUS @ Manning Bar
5/17 – Brisbane, AUS @ The Triffid
5/24 – Hatfield, UK @ Slam Dunk Festival – South
5/25 – Leeds, UK @ Slam Dunk Festival – North
Upcoming North American Tour Dates:
6/4 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird Café & Music Hall
6/5 – Buffalo, NY @ Rec Room
6/7 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground **
6/8 – Albany, NY @ Empire Underground
6/10 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
6/11 – Amityville, NY @ Amityville Music Hall
6/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Meadows
6/14 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at The Fillmore
6/16 – Allentown, PA @ Archer Music Hall
6/17 – Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club
6/19 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
6/20 – Greenville, SC @ The Radio Room
6/21 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
6/22 – Miami, FL @ Gramps
6/24 – Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
6/25 – Nashville, TN @ Eastside Bowl
6/27 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
6/28 – Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
6/29 – Lexington, KY @ Manchester Music Hall
7/8 – Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
7/9 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
7/10 – Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
7/11 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line **
7/12 – Rapid City, SD @ Aby’s Rapid City
7/13 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
7/16 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
7/18 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
7/20 – Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
7/21 – Denver, CO @ Marquis
7/23 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell
7/24 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
7/25 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
7/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
7/27 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
7/29 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
7/30 – Berkeley, CA @ Cornerstone Berkeley
7/31 – Fresno, CA @ Strummer’s
8/1 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room Highland Park
8/2 – Mesa, AZ @ The Nile Theater
8/4 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
8/5 – Dallas, TX @ RBC
8/6 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
8/8 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live
8/9 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Beer City Music Hall
** – without The Dirty Nil
