NEWS: Weightless get raw with “Sabotage”!

Delving deeply into the repercussions of self-destructive tendencies, highlighting their insidious nature in eroding one’s own surroundings unnoticed with the poignant lyric: “Can’t change the fact the only constant is me”, Sydney Australians Weightless have shared a new single titled “Sabotage“. The Metalcore outfit do so while also changing their usual approach to place guitarist and clean vocalist Riley Keane at the centre of the storm they create while pushing the usual jagged riffs and unclean vocals to the surrounding edges. The cut marks the bands second of 2023 following “Counterfeit” with their critically acclaimed debut EP “Turn The Page” having set a very high standard to be maintained…

“Sabotage for me is the song I feel the most connected to emotionally with the subject matter hitting very close to home. I felt an overwhelming amount of pressure whilst tracking vocals due to the song being heavily reliant on my performance mixed with the challenge of pushing to explore a vocal range outside of my comfort zone. 

I believe the sincerity of my attachment to the lyrics within this song is best highlighted in the chorus with a delivery of raw emotion combined with self reflective lyrics creating a song I believe will connect and resonate deeply with listeners” shares guitarist and clean vocalist, Riley Keane.

“Sabotage as a song taught me a lot both as a songwriter and as a person, with the song being quite the departure from the “typical” sound of Weightless; it created a lot of challenges along the way when it came to writing a song that is heavily pop influenced. The decision to take this song in such a different direction came about very naturally and has always been a style/genre of song we have wanted to explore as a band, though the writing process of sabotage taught us a lot as musicians as well as teaching us patience and that the process of creating art does take time” adds guitarist Brenton Rakebrandt