Hardcore’s most dangerous band just merged with rap’s fiercest voice. The result is pure combustion.
When Knocked Loose drop new music, it doesn’t arrive quietly — it detonates. With “Hive Mind,” the Kentucky hardcore juggernaut delivers one of the most volatile collaborations in recent heavy music memory, enlisting Denzel Curry for a track that collapses the wall between metal and hip-hop with unapologetic force. It’s not a crossover gimmick. It’s not a feature for optics. It’s a collision.
21 months after their latest album ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’ (2024, Pure Noise Records), the single lands alongside a raw, kinetic video directed by Eric Richter and frontman Bryan Garris, filmed in the band’s hometown at Louisville’s iconic David Armstrong Extreme Park — concrete, steel, and sweat serving as the perfect backdrop for a song built on pressure and release.
From its opening seconds, “Hive Mind” is all tension: serrated riffs, hammering drums, and Garris’ unmistakable, high-register howl slicing through the mix. Then Curry steps in — not as an outsider, but as an accelerant. His cadence is feral. His delivery mirrors the band’s aggression rather than contrasting it. The chemistry feels instinctive.
Garris explains the long-gestating collaboration plainly:
“This is something we’ve talked about doing for a long time. We wondered if we could pull it off and who would be down. In the very beginning, we said for it to work, it would have to be Denzel Curry. Because he gets it.”
Curry, a longtime student of hardcore and metal — and widely praised for his explosive cover of Rage Against The Machine’s “Bulls On Parade” — doesn’t dilute Knocked Loose’s sound. He sharpens it.
The result is more convergence than fusion: two heavy disciplines speaking the same language of intensity.
