Here's our last monthly feature post of 2024, namely this month's YouTube Channel Profile! This series look at 1-3 randomly selected YouTube channels whose content is at least 50% devoted to local metal, hard rock, and/or punk concerts or videos, and to end the year, our latest random selection gives us a channel full of recent studio material from a prominent E.U.P. metal band, so here's what you should know!
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Owner: If anyone, Heavy Lies The Crown frontman Brandon West, though the channel is auto-generated to facilitate the band's catalogue being available on YouTube Music
Channel Timeline: Launched on September 10th, 2019; Surviving videos posted from December 2021 through the present day
Channel Summary: This channel exists as the home of the St. Ignace, Michigan metalcore band's studio material for YouTube Music streaming purposes, though the songs can be experienced on regular YouTube as normal videos as well. The band's two full length albums are streamable on YouTube Music, as well as their non-album (yet?) singles "Marble Skin" & "These Walls", and single uploads of two of their album tracks.
Why You Should Watch: If you want to hear H.L.T.C.'s studio back catalogue, this is as good a way as any to check the songs out, though note that other major streaming services also have these same songs, so pick and choose based on your own preferences for layout, content, and subscription models. Note that the band's first uploads to their YouTube Music channel were the songs from their September 2019 debut EP "Scatter Brain", but that release was quietly pulled from streaming services, presumably as they re-recorded all four songs with their expanded five-piece lineup on their 2021 (and originally self-titled) album "Knucklebutter". However, their official YouTube channel features "Scatter Brain" in this playlist, along with other audiovisual content of theirs from the early 2020s.
Jell-0: From H.L.T.C.'s 2024 sophomore album "Built For Us", I wanted to highlight "Jell-0" for three reasons: It's one of my favourite songs on that album, it was an advance single complete with music video, and it has surprisingly low listens/views on YouTube Music compared to the rest of the album in spite of that (six of the other ten songs have more hits). Then featuring Brandon and Ted alongside current bassist Christian Cook and then-drummer/now-guitarist Jaxon Massaway, "Jell-0" is a fast and brutal song that made great use of ominous guitar riffing and Brandon's harsh vocals, and I only wish that the song didn't end so abruptly!
Marble Skin: Alongside full and instrumental versions of their newest song "These Walls", Heavy Lies The Crown's newest songs (not yet attached to an album) also include their new single "Marble Skin", which was posted to streaming services in April, three months after "Built For Us" came out. A suitably brutal (if very short) song featuring Nathan back on guitar to replace Ted for a brief spell, this song has overly processed vocals but it is a promising number towards their upcoming studio plans!
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I hope you guys liked this month's YouTube Channel Profile! On or around January 26th, we'll kick off 2025 with another randomly selected channel to shine a spotlight on, and it'll be another auto-generated YouTube music channel, namely Agnosticism - Topic, so if you like the Sault Ontario folk punk solo project, stay tuned for that next month, and for our 2024 year-in-review post next! Thanks everyone!
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