{"id":28741,"date":"2026-07-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28741"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:49:33","slug":"the-heat-inc-announce-new-single-mind-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28741","title":{"rendered":"THE HEAT INC.\u00a0ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE\u00a0\u2018MIND CONTROL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fair warning to all those who might be entertained; there\u2019s more than one bad reason that a person came alone\u2026 Released via Tri-Tone Records \/ Republic of Music, on July 2nd,&nbsp;<strong>The Heat Inc.<\/strong>&nbsp;unveil&nbsp;<strong><em>Mind Control<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;&#8211;<\/em>&nbsp;a towering new single that threads the anthem from past to present, as one of the band\u2019s most accomplished and arresting releases to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Heat Inc. - Mind Control\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Zbz1B8cm_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Built around a long-simmering chorus melody and lyric that had existed in fragments since as early as 2014,&nbsp;<strong><em>Mind Control<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong>became the result of old ghosts colliding with new vision. What began as half an unfinished idea eventually found its missing piece in the riff and verse of \u201cBelacqua\u201d \u2014 an unreleased track originally written years earlier by frontman Jon Dodd in a previous band with current bassist, Nico Rigot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarco had this Chorus melody, I think and I had the lyric for the chorus for years,\u201d vocalist&nbsp;<strong>Jon Dodd<\/strong>&nbsp;explains. \u201cWe struggled to make it into a whole song, then suddenly I noticed that it fit with the main verse riff and maybe the coda of an old track Nico and I had played in our previous band but never recorded. One day everything just locked into place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That collision of timelines gave birth to the song\u2019s strange emotional landscape: a darkly theatrical world populated by memory, regret, and reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t get a verse lyric down for it until tracking at Woodworm,\u201d Dodd continues. \u201cThen I realised there was this figure \u2014 a ringmaster of sorts \u2014 guiding a tour of unhappy tourists around a carnival where the exhibits feature lovers you\u2019ve known and possibly wronged in the past. The chorus became a kind of cautionary reprisal to anyone who might enter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pastedGraphic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pastedGraphic.png\" alt=\"photo by Adrian Hextall \" class=\"wp-image-28742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pastedGraphic.png 482w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pastedGraphic-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The result is quintessential&nbsp;<strong>The Heat Inc.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 balancing crushing weight with haunting melody while refusing to settle into either extreme. It\u2019s a tightrope the band have spent their careers learning to walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAny number of bands can go heavy and there are a lot of bands out there that do easier numbers as a habit,\u201d Dodd says. \u201cBut very few can do both in one evening and not seem like two totally different bands. There is a very succinct blend of heaviness with melody that we try to maintain at all times without thinking too hard about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That balance comes from chemistry forged over years together. Marco provides \u201cthe vision,\u201d while Nico and Maurizio form \u201ca rhythm section built to untune the sky.\u201d The songs themselves now arrive with greater instinct than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe definitely understand one another better now. Stuff comes together faster and we have a pretty keen sense for what\u2019s going to work before getting stuck in the weeds. We\u2019ve always been okay with going for the gentle, melodic number, but now we can do that while still maintaining an intensity that doesn\u2019t overthrow an otherwise beautiful song.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For&nbsp;<strong>The Heat Inc.<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>Mind Control<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong>is less a reinvention than a refinement \u2014 the sound of a band that knows exactly who they are and have stopped trying to get in their own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find Heat Inc. <a href=\"http:\/\/lnk.to\/mindcontrolheatinc\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"lnk.to\/mindcontrolheatinc\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair warning to all those who might be entertained; there\u2019s more than one bad reason that a person came alone\u2026 Released via Tri-Tone Records \/ Republic of Music, on July 2nd,&nbsp;The Heat Inc.&nbsp;unveil&nbsp;Mind Control&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;a towering new single that threads the anthem from past to present, as one of the band\u2019s most accomplished and arresting releases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28743,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28741\/revisions\/28743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}