Denver-based genre-defying hardcore hip-hop band, Fox Lake have released their latest single, “Dog Eat Dog” today. Following their 2021 EP, Lady Luck, “Dog Eat Dog” finds the band expanding once more on their ever-evolving sound that they have spend the past five years curating. Watch the music video now below.
“Dog Eat Dog is the combination of everything we want this band to be known for,” the band said of the song, “It’s energetic, catchy, aggressive, thick, accessible, and incomparable. We wrote the bones of this song years ago, and it was one of the first songs that stuck out when we came back to the studio to start work on the music we’d be releasing this year. We pushed ourselves a lot on the instrumentation and even more so on the composition, and the finished product reflects so much of what this band is and so many of the tenets we want to build our future on. Lyrically it deals with owning the fear that controls so many people, stepping up and over it and moving past something that would stop other people in their tracks. It also touches on people’s inability to engage in any meaningful discourse and the “dog eat dog” mentality that permeates today’s political and social landscape. While the chest-beating and bravado are there, the core of the song is something very real and very critical of the fear that so many people will succumb to.”
Since their inception in 2017, Fox Lake has spent 5 years breaking down the barriers between 90’s boom-bap hip hop, the aggression of beatdown hardcore, the intentional song structures of pop, and the earworm catchiness of modern metalcore for a sound all their own. While their tone and delivery tentatively approach tongue-in-cheek, the execution is undeniably deliberate.