Metal/Review Tritonic - Alexamenos!

Tritonic is a London hardcore band with a heretical embrace of pop and indie. Tritonic began as a spark in the Indian Ocean, where founder Peter Jewkes was living in exile in the Maldives. On his return, he recruited his oldest friends to make Tritonic a reality. With one foot in hardcore forms and the other defiantly outside of it, Tritonic is a reassessment of what heavy music can mean.

“Alexamenos!,” Tritonic's most recent metal song, is a smoldering and mind-blowing blend of power-pop, doom, and sludge that explodes with both anger and transcendence. Each note of this unboxable track feels like a conflict between chaos and order—a collision of melodic bliss and raw force.

“Alexamenos!” is a bold artistic rebellion of heavy music conventions, built on the rough basis of handmade fretless guitars. Tritonic shreds the grid in a genre that is fixated on accuracy. The fretless method substitutes fluid, human volatility for mechanical perfection, introducing instability and emotion. The outcome is deliciously unpredictable: a sound that is both future and old, combining the heaviness of Acid Bath with soaring twin guitar harmonies in the Baroness style.

“Alexamenos!” has a spiritual undertone, since the title itself alludes to the first known representation of Christ while combining sarcasm with respect. Tritonic creates a work that simultaneously seems ceremonial and rebellious by navigating this tension between blasphemy and veneration, between digital sprawl and analog grit. The sound is a meditation on ambiguity, breaking down barriers across genres rather than merely straddling them.

Tritonic does more than only perform heavy music in “Alexamenos!;” they question, reinterpret, and reframe it as an exploration of the limitless and unknown. For those who seek solace in disorder and music from the emptiness, this is metal for the philosophically inclined. Tritonic stands out as one of the most audacious voices in experimental heavy music with this song.