As part of the promotion for their 2025 EP ‘Reckoning’ – released today, and available from the digital vendor or streamer of your choice – Welsh alt-metal band House of Hosts have shared a new video for ‘Pedestal’, a blistering number that acts as a perfect introduction to their heavy sound.

Opening with a mix of semi gothic tones and acoustic strums, the number introduces itself in a relatively subtle way, but it isn’t long before the band reach for something rather more intense. A mid tempo and weighty riff waste no time in advertising a love for the mighty Stone Sour, and this carries through a more sedate verse when the crushing sounds fall away to make good on the melodic aspects promised in the intro. In a perfect fit, vocalist Daniel Foley-Griffiths reaches inside himself for the kind of cleaner toned croon that drove Stone Sour tracks like ‘Through Glass’, and this, naturally, has the effect of making the heavier parts seem even more intense upon their return.

When it comes to sharing that heaviness, the whole band can be heard in superb form. The still mid tempo allows for a weighty guitar sound (courtesy of James Russell and Ross Davies), but that sounds even more brutal when the longer notes give way for more of a hardcore infused, pneumatic element, where drummer Beth Goodwin dominates the arrangement.

Despite being constructed from familiar sounding riffs and having moments where the track veers a little too close to sounding like its chief influences, ‘Reckoning’ is a superb workout – very much the kind of recording that will use its love of Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold and others to showcase brilliant musicianship, and use its huge vocal hooks to show off a still relatively new band who are very much unafraid to make their presence felt. On the strength of this track – a very natural continuation from earlier singles – House of Hosts are heading for bigger things over the coming year.

Check out the video below.