Truck nuts glisten off the back bumper, swinging low with challenging and poetic weight. “It makes more sense 100 miles outside of any major city and may be one of the few songs ever written to use ‘truck nuts’ in the chorus. “This song is less ‘sea salt’ and more ‘salt of the earth,'” he said in a statement. Heavy Metal Greasy Love will come out on his label April 1.Ĭooper describes “Monster Truck” as “somewhere between musical theater and classic rock,” while Dimotsis offers some more vivid language. “This is comfort food for nasty people,” he said of Make It Sweat. The duo released their debut as King Garbage, Make It Sweat, in 2017, garnering praise from Faith No More frontman and Ipecac Records co-owner Mike Patton. Their work on Batiste’s “Sing” earned them eight Grammy nominations. Outside of King Garbage, Cooper and Dimotsis are a songwriting/producing partnership that has worked on tunes for SZA, Ellie Goulding, and Billy Porter. King Garbage is the brainchild of songwriters Zach Cooper and Vic Dimotsis, whose worked with the likes of Leon Bridges and Jon Batiste. “Too much is never enough/No fast cars or diamond rings, only heavy-metal, greasy things.” Over the course of five minutes, the song becomes a long-haul journey of its own with soulful horns, some funky Wurlitzer, postmodern echoes, and a noise-rock freakout flying by faster than white lines in the middle of blacktop.

“My baby drives a monster truck,” the duo sings together over pounding piano chords. King Garbage turn trucking into a moody, melodramatic piano rocker on “Monster Truck,” a track from their upcoming album, Heavy Metal Greasy Love.

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