Track By Tracks: IRONRAT - Beneath It All (2025)

1. Liar [4:24]:

“It never got you anywhere, I know that you don’t even care

Keep telling all your tales, your glory never fails

Were you even there anyway”

Clocking in as the shortest and one of the fastest tracks on the album, this shows a healthy dose of punky grit in the riffing. Lyrically, the theme is about people who lie to try to make themselves look more impressive.

2. Tip Of My Tongue [6:32]:

“My lifestyle’s taken a nose dive.... but I’m still alive

Stood starting at the face....in the mirror

I know I’m making ‘bout as much sense as ever....have I ever?

Take a look to see what’s around the corner....if I care....if I dare”

Breaking out big fat, slow grooves but also complex to play clean melodic sections this is a live favourite. Lyrically it’s about feeling trapped in a cycle

3. Lost [6:26]:

“On a road that leads to nowhere, many others on their way

All together we’re all alone, some spared cost others pay “

1st single off the album with a brilliantly atmospheric video from Voltage Studios and additional songwriting help from Lee Baines (Khang, Lazarus Blackstar, Monolith Cult).

Themes of desperation, struggle, nihilism, but still struggling through pushing to the end.

4. Burn [8:01]:

“Rise from the flames

There’s nothing left to burn”

The album’s difficult but epic, and also the longest track. This was the hardest to realise, but really came alive in the studio, with a beautifully melodic and harmonic opening, it builds into a galloping crescendo, but still ends on utter crushing heaviness. A cathartic song using the theme of fire as a destructive force but also a purifying one.

5. Wasted 7:05:

“One day at a time, we’ve been sold down the river

It’s always the same, it’s a shame that’s all, it’s a shame that’s all…….”

While most of the album is in Drop A tuning, this track is in Drop C which dates this as one of the early tracks written after our debut Monument. It’s been worked and reworked until it’s got probably the tightest and most musically complex riffing in the bridge section we’ve ever done but it also retains so much harmony in the guitars.

Lyrically it talks of how privilege is easily lost and how our current social standings are broken and in need of radical change.

6. Obscene 6:56:

“I’m calling you out, you’re the swine make no doubt“

I think we’ve all had to suffer a racist bigot (obscene pig man) at some point, this is meant as a fast and furious slap to their face(s) but not without a meandering mellow lead self-introspective section that leads to a heavy dirge outro.