[Cover photo credit to Anabel DFlux, featuring Jewel Steele, Kiana De León, Carla Harvey, Allie Kay, Sasha De León]

Heavy Rock group The Violent Hour, formed by Carla Harvey and Charlie Benante, have returned with their new single + visualizer, “Screenager.” Lyrically, the song “serves as a warning about what happens when the digital world begins to replace the real one, and how our humanity and empathy can get lost in the process.”

“Screenager” explores “the quiet death of real connection in the age of endless validation, where anonymity breeds cruelty and our curated digital selves slowly consume our human ones.”

Carla Harvey comments:

We wanted to write something that felt as relentless as the endless scroll. Musically, ‘Screenager’ channels the aggression and energy of early Metallica but opens up into huge, soaring melodic choruses. Lyrically, it’s about how we’ve traded genuine human connection for digital validation, and how anonymity has fueled a growing lack of empathy by making cruelty feel consequence-free. We’re more connected than ever, yet somehow we’ve never felt further apart.

“Screenager” also features a guitar solo performed by Attila Vörös. 

Harvey says:

We asked our friend Attila Vörös to lay down the guitar solo for Screenager and he absolutely delivered with a combination of 80’s shred and modern melodic metal that only he could pull off.

The Violent Hour are embarking on a string of festival performances this Fall, including Rocklahoma in Pryor, OK on September 6, Louder Than Life in Louisville, KY on September 17, and Aftershock in Sacramento, CA on October 1.

Live dates:
September 6             Pryor, OK @ Rocklahoma
September 17           Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life
October 1                 Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock