Carla Harvey’s The Violent Hour Shares Powerful New Single “Screenager”

Carla Harvey‘s heavy rock group The Violent Hour has shared it’s latest single. The new track, titled “Screenager,” combines thunderous energy and raw vocals to speak on the concerns of the digital world replacing the real one. The track can be found on the band’s YouTube channel.

“We wanted to write something that felt as relentless as the endless scroll,” Carla Harvey said about the song in a press release. “Musically, ‘Screenager’ channels the aggression and energy of early Metallica but opens up into huge, soaring melodic choruses. Lyrically, it’s about how we’ve traded genuine human connection for digital validation, and how anonymity has fueled a growing lack of empathy by making cruelty feel consequence-free. We’re more connected than ever, yet somehow we’ve never felt further apart.” The title is a slang term for teenagers particularly proficient with, and often seen as “addicted” to devices such as phones and computers, the term being an obvious portmanteau of “screen” and “teenager.” Lyrics speak on the shift towards this digital world, highlighting the worst impacts of this technology, saying “no one’s safe and nothing’s sacred.”

The track also features a guitar solo by Atilla Vörös. Harvey says “We asked our friend Attila Vörös to lay down the guitar solo for Screenager and he absolutely delivered with a combination of 80’s shred and modern melodic metal that only he could pull off.” “Screenager” comes as the latest single from the group, who will have festival performances at Rocklahoma, Louder than Life and Aftershock later this fall.