Heavy Metal Chess Club – ‘I Think It’ll Haunt Me Forever’

Philadelphia's Heavy Metal Chess Club's new album I Think It'll Haunt Me Forever is out now – a record shaped by years of quiet, persistent fear.

Some of the songs date back five or six years, written across different versions of the same person. It wasn’t until deep into recording that a throughline became clear: every track circles a different kind of fear – of the future, of being a bad friend, of being misunderstood, of being impossible to change.

What could read as heavy or even self-defeating instead feels like confrontation. These songs don’t wallow – they process. In writing and performing them, Heavy Metal Chess Club turn anxiety into something tangible, something survivable. I Think It'll Haunt Me Forever is less about being consumed by fear, and more about learning how to live alongside it.

Stream the new album here.