"I spent a lot of time just ruminating, instead of living my life."Īt last, after so many years fretting, Heard is ready to fight - and if Jesus Piece's infernal set that afternoon at the Electric Factory serves as any indication, he has plenty of fans ready to fight with him. "Once you get to that low a point, you start to feel like the world's really, really small, that you can't see the brighter things in life," he says somberly.
Had he not found his way back into the Philly punk scene, he may very well have stayed trapped in his own personal "Neuroprison," as Heard frames it on one of Only Self's standout tracks. "I was fucking floating around, doing a couch-to-couch type ordeal," the frontman recalls of his teenage years, before revealing that he felt downright paralyzed by the time his 21st birthday finally came around. Starting in high school, he found himself in the grips of crippling depression, intensified by his turbulent home life. Some might refer to this behavior as overachieving Heard considers it a way to make up for lost time and a lack of control. Earlier this year, he enlisted as bassist for the grunge-gaze outfit Nothing - who, as it so happens, released their new album, Dance on the Blacktop, the same day as Only Self - and he also has his other hardcore band, Hell to Pay, which dropped its Bliss LP in March. As intense and all-consuming as the band appears to be, however, Jesus Piece isn't even Heard's only musical outlet. Their debut album, Only Self, released in August by esteemed metal label Southern Lord, is a shocking wake-up cry, fueled by existential angst, depressive agony, deep-seated rage and, above all, defiance in the face of oppression and adversity. Formed in 2015, the hardcore band has seemingly gone from virtual unknowns just a year ago to one of the scene's most highly touted young acts. Such are Heard's transcendent aims with Jesus Piece, and the group is well on its way to establishing its staying power.
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