With the video for their song “The Alpha” out now and the official single release on the horizon (Feb 6th), Hex Poseur has constructed a track that is physically dense as it is emotionally cathartic.
Like the track’s namesake, the song moves with a thick predatory tone. One that is calculated, ugly, and filled with distortion, and those are all good things. The grit and the grime of music allows for the vocals of Harri Bettsworth to sneer from the shadow where she no longer refuses to hide.
In the pointed lyrics, she grabs the so-called alphas by the balls and points out the ugly misogyy of toxic masculiity. One that many alphas choose to ignore, fail to see, or are just too damn ignorant to be aware that they are being fed a buicket of lies and bullshit.
On the song, Harri says,
“In the song, I take the role of the ‘alpha male’ and there’s a bit of comedy about that, as I’m obviously not actually male or alpha. And that’s really the point– the alpha male is a ridiculous concept and demeaning to both men and women.”
Rather than relying on high-speed aggression, Hex Poseur allows the anger and aggression to find its power in the slow grind of sludge. It deliberately mirrors the very arrogance it seeks to dismantle. By inhabiting the said perspective of the alpha, the song is not only sonically heavy but a brilliant piece of sonic mockery. It’s a heavy and industrial caricature of a worldview built on fragile glass.
By leaving a cold, ringing aftertaste that suggests the joke is very much on anyone still trying to scream the loudest because of their small dick energy, “The Alpha” is a sharp edged piece of work that manages to feel both menacing and skeptical. It may not offer a clean release, but it does feel like the weight of those tired and toxic tropes finally collapse under their own gravity.
