HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 10/10/20
Each week on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 10/10/20. All exclusive HRD content is featured below the chart:
| CHART | CHART | ARTIST | SONG TITLE | RADIO |
| POSITION | POSITION | SPINS | ||
| THIS WEEK | LAST WEEK | |||
| 1 | 1 | SEETHER | Dangerous | 1926 |
| 2 | 3 | COREY TAYLOR | Black Eyes Blue | 1709 |
| 3 | 2 | CHRIS CORNELL | Patience | 1649 |
| 4 | 5 | BADFLOWER | 30 | 1429 |
| 5 | 6 | DEFTONES | Ohms | 1252 |
| 6 | 4 | METALLICA & THE S.F. SYMPHONY | All Within My Hands (S&M2) | 1243 |
| 7 | 0 | AC/DC | Shot In the Dark | 1201 |
| 8 | 9 | I PREVAIL (f. DELANEY JANE) | Every Time You Leave | 1103 |
| 9 | 8 | MARILYN MANSON | We Are Chaos | 1064 |
| 10 | 10 | FROM ASHES TO NEW | Panic | 927 |
| 11 | 11 | SIXX:A.M. / ARTISTS FOR RECOVERY | Maybe It’s Time | 884 |
| 12 | 12 | THREE DAYS GRACE | Somebody That I Used To Know | 880 |
| 13 | 13 | AYRON JONES | Take Me Away | 844 |
| 14 | 15 | BAD WOLVES | Learn To Walk Again | 750 |
| 15 | 23 | ROYAL BLOOD | Trouble’s Coming | 713 |
| 16 | 17 | CLEOPATRICK | Hometown | 665 |
| 17 | 14 | SEVENDUST | The Day I Tried To Live | 659 |
| 18 | 16 | BRING ME THE HORIZON | Parasite Eve | 625 |
| 19 | 19 | EVANESCENCE | Use My Voice | 563 |
| 20 | 21 | ASKING ALEXANDRIA | They Don’t Want What We Want… | 499 |
| 21 | 22 | AVATAR | Colossus | 485 |
| 22 | 24 | BAD OMENS | Limits | 445 |
| 23 | 20 | 10 YEARS | The Shift | 430 |
| 24 | 25 | THE VIOLENT | Fly On The Wall | 364 |
| 25 | 28 | SAUL | King Of Misery | 325 |
| 26 | 46 | FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH | Living The Dream | 319 |
| 27 | 30 | DAUGHTRY | World On Fire | 316 |
| 28 | 26 | IN THIS MOMENT | As Above, So Below | 311 |
| 29 | 31 | SMITH & MYERS | Not Mad Enough | 296 |
| 30 | 18 | BREAKING BENJAMIN (f. LACEY STURM) | Dear Agony | 272 |
| 31 | 0 | GRETA VAN FLEET | My Way, Soon | 271 |
| 32 | 29 | GREY DAZE | B12 | 261 |
| 33 | 34 | ROYAL BLISS (f. SHIM) | Medication | 243 |
| 34 | 32 | ANOTHER DAY DAWNS | Forget Me Not | 220 |
| 35 | 35 | MOTIONLESS IN WHITE | Somebody Told Me | 204 |
| 36 | 33 | TETRARCH | I’m Not Right | 202 |
| 37 | 36 | EGO KILL TALENT | The Call | 150 |
| 38 | 38 | FIT FOR A KING | Locked (In My Head) | 132 |
| 39 | 42 | ALTER BRIDGE | Native Son | 127 |
| 40 | 39 | SOUTH OF EDEN | The Talk | 114 |
| 41 | 41 | BLACK STONE CHERRY | Again | 95 |
| 42 | 40 | BIFFY CLYRO | Tiny Indoor Fireworks | 92 |
| 43 | 60 | THE BLUE STONES | Let It Ride | 80 |
| 44 | 53 | BLACKLITE DISTRICT | Falling | 64 |
| 45 | 61 | WEAPONS OF ANEW | Sick Boy | 58 |
| 46 | 96 | THROUGH FIRE | Doubt | 57 |
| 47 | 57 | NICK PERRI / UNDERGROUND THIEVES | Feeling Good | 54 |
| 48 | 55 | REZZ & GRABBITZ | Someone Else | 51 |
| 49 | 44 | MASTODON | Falling Torches | 51 |
| 50 | 49 | ALL TIME LOW f. BLACKBEAR | Monsters | 50 |
PUBLISHER’S PICK OF THE WEEK (By Adam Waldman)
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
Theatricality is the first thing that comes to mind at the beginning of Electric Mob’s “Devil You Know.” The swampy guitar intro makes it feel like you’re in the deep south. Technically speaking, Electric Mob makes the deep south look like the north, since these rockers hail from Brazil. Perhaps that’s what gives them a unique quality that you can’t quite put your finger on. Or maybe it’s the fact that they pride themselves on being the product of decades of rock all blended into one (based on their bio)…
“Try a mixture of the 70’s powerful vocals, 80’s mean guitar riffs and the heavy groove from the 90’s and 2000’s. Now put it all together with a contemporary look. After all, rock n roll has never been dead, so why not mix everything?”
Renan Zonta does not look like the soaring classic rock vocalists of yesteryear. He is not a classic rocker clinging to the glory of his past. He’s far too young and modern looking for that to be true, even if he and Electric Mob share the same label (Frontiers) as many of the great classic rock singers of a generation gone by.
“Devil You Know” is an interesting blend of the history of rock. Though there is a foundation of ’70s mystique, and soaring vocals, there is also an angsty grittiness laid atop a grungy groove that gives the band a hint of familiarity, while also feeling like it is modern and fresh. The more I listened to the song, the more that I thought that this song would have been a perfect fit to be featured during a dramatic scene in Sons Of Anarchy. Though that show is no longer on the air, it would be surprising if “Devil You Know” doesn’t end up in film or on television at some point. As far as radio goes, it’s anyone’s guess if the format that doesn’t easily embrace a stark deviation from the norm will embrace Electric Mob, but they should.
HRD SPIN CONTROL (by Adam Waldman and Jon Loveless)
The following is a list of songs that we feel deserve to be added to Active Rock playlists…
ELECTRIC MOB – “Devil You Know”
DEAD DAISIES – “Bustle And Flow”
ETCHED IN EMBERS – “Silence”
THROUGH FIRE – “Doubt”
NICKELBACK – “The Devil Went Down To Georgia”
WHEELBLOCKS – “Aces High”
FALSET – “Give”
LARKIN POE – “Holy Ghost Fire”
FOUNDRY – “Intoxicate”
SMASH INTO PIECES – “Big Bang”
KIRRA – “Free”
ASHES OF SOMA – “Relevant”
LIGHTWORKER – “Cholera”
W3APONS – “Bye Baby Gone”
AS STRANGE AS ANGELS – “Never Broken”
THE LOYAL ORDER – “Hellfire”
GREATEST GAINERS…
AC/DC – “Shot In The Dark” (+1201 spins)
ROYAL BLOOD – “Trouble’s Coming” (+310 spins)
GRETA VAN FLEET– “My Way, Soon” (+271 spins)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – “Living The Dream” (+268 spins)
BADFLOWER – “30” (+153 spins)
I PREVAIL/DELANEY JANE – “Every Time You Leave” (+147 spins)
AYRON JONES – “Take Me Away” (+147 spins)
THREE DAYS GRACE – “Somebody That I Used To Know” (+118 spins)
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