The Veer Union does not need a big, impressive backdrop behind them in the new music video for their single “Standing My Ground” this February – in all honesty, getting anything next to this band while they’re pumping out their trademark sound seems like a waste of props. The video for “Standing My Ground” celebrates just how much this band loves to rock, and between the metallic soundtrack it offers and the charisma of their dedicated on-screen performance, I think viewers are going to step away from what they see feeling like they’ve just witnessed real heavy music in action.
On the instrumental front, there are a number of conventionalities to the compositional structure of this song that affirms The Veer Union’s respect for the old school in punk and heavy metal, but make no mistake about it – they aren’t trying to put together a Black Sabbath homage. On the contrary, while the roots of their aesthetics are on full display, they’re mostly used as a catalyst to evolve the emotion in the lyrics, of which we get the best picture of who these artists are when all of the beefy riffing is taken out of the equation.
Watch the video for “Standing My Ground” By The Veer Union
Making your priorities clear as a band is essential to any buzz-making recording, and there’s no debating what matters the most to The Veer Union in a single like this one. Because there’s quite literally no sonic waste getting between the artists and their audience, we’ve got a clean depiction of the technical and poetic substance of what “Standing My Ground” is made of, which isn’t something a lot of metal or punk acts like to go out on a limb and do. They’re still pretty indie, but this band is more mature than the vast majority of their mainstream counterparts.
It’s starting to feel like we’re on the verge of a big summer for hard rock music in general, and the lumbering thrust of “Standing My Ground” only confirms as much. The Veer Union take a tried and true formula and put it work under a pressurized, high-adrenaline framework in this latest single, and while they’ve got plenty of challengers for the throne over metal’s underground hierarchy in 2022, they’ve also got just enough of that Misfits-style punk rock in their bones to advance a little further than some of their more single-threaded contemporaries in the indie leagues will ever be able to.
