After six years since their debut album Legends, Los Angeles’ progressive power metal band Novareign returns with a new song, “Ironsides.” An anthem inspired by the resilience of the USS Constitution, vocalist, Icarus Marquez explains,
“‘Old Ironsides’ is a poem written by Oliver Wendall Holmes Sr. after finding out that the USS Constitution was slated to be deconstructed and used for parts. Saddened by this notion, Holmes took his poem and published it in his local newspaper. After the town read the poem, they rallied together and let the powers that be know that they all believed if the ship was to be destroyed, then it should at the very least have the opportunity to go out in battle. The power that be could not deny its people and made the repairs necessary to get it back in active duty. Centuries later, Old Ironsides is STILL in active duty to this very day. There is no limit to what we as a people can do when we rally together.”
While the guitars and vocals build and crescendos, it’s the infectious bass and drums each that are a jolt of adrenaline that creates an irresistible groove.
With “Ironsides,” Novareign delivers not just a song, but an anthem of resilience and unity, echoing the enduring spirit of the USS Constitution but also of themselves.
