Dead Heat Unleashes “The Order” Video
– October 9th, 2025 –
“Process of Elimination” Full-Length To Drop Tomorrow On Metal Blade Records!
Watch / stream DEAD HEAT’s “The Order” HERE
West Coast crossover faction DEAD HEAT is pleased to unleash their latest video for “The Order” from their Process Of Elimination full-length.The premiere comes on the eve of the record’s official release Friday, October 10th on Metal Blade Records!
Produced by the band with Paul Fig (Deftones, Trivium, Jerry Cantrell), Process Of Elimination is DEAD HEAT‘s first album for Metal Blade. Across eleven heavy tracks, it sees the Oxnard, California-based band reaching a sonic and lyrical apex. The record follows the band’s critically adored, 2023 released Endless Torment EP and serves as a continuation and progression musically, while thematically it often touches on DEAD HEAT‘s disdain for the powers that be.
Photo by Luis Hernandez
Of the record’s lead single, “Perpetual Punishment,” Stereogum accurately championed, “great music for headbutting all your best friends.” Elsewhere, Decibel Magazine notes, “Process… leans deep into the snarl and gnarl of their previous work to produce a vicious, bloodthirsty thrash record that is more Demolition Hammer, Kreator, or Sodom than it is crossover like D.R.I. or Crumbsuckers.” Rock Hard Germany writes, “After a short acoustic intro at the beginning of ‘Perpetual Punishment,’ DEAD HEAT open their third album with the sensitivity of an orbital sander. The Californian five-piece’s crossover hardcore thrash is beautifully raucous, its raw style repeatedly reminiscent of their Texan colleagues Power Trip.” Mystification ‘Zine hails a “harder, meaner and louder” era of DEAD HEAT while Fuze confirms, “The songs are raw and uncompromising, yet catchy and instantly recognizable. DEAD HEAT manages to combine heaviness and hooks in such a way that their tracks not only work in the mosh pit but also stick in the mind.” Adds Transcended Music, “If you’re into riffs, Process Of Elimination is pure riff city.“
Comments vocalist Chris Ramos on today’s single, “‘The Order’ is about knowing your place in line when it comes to things. Just because you’re given something, doesn’t mean you always earn it and when it comes to that, real recognizes real. Some people all they do is leech off others and use them just to benefit themselves and break away later. Always know there’s an order to things and if you don’t follow you don’t need to be around.”
Watch DEAD HEAT‘s “The Order” video HERE.
Stream DEAD HEAT‘s previously released single, “Perpetual Punishment” HERE and “By My Will” HERE.
Process Of Elimination will be available on CD and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:
Blood Moon (Red / Black Marbled – US)
Dusk (Orange / Red / Black Marbled – US)
180g Black (EU)
Yellow / Brown Merged (EU – Ltd. 300)
Swamp Green / Bone Merged (EU – Ltd. 200)
Find all pre-orders at: metalblade.com/deadheat
Process Of Elimination Track Listing:
01. Perpetual Punishment
02. Annihilation Nation
03. Hidebound
04. The Order
05. Enemy
06. Seventh Gate
07. DH Stomp
08. Solace Denied
09. By My Will
10. Process of Elimination
11. Hatred Bestowed
DEAD HEAT Live w/ 200 Stab Wounds, No Cure, Bastardane:
11/03/2025 HQ – Denver, CO
11/04/2025 Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
11/05/2025 Eagle Aerie Hall – Las Vegas, NV
11/07/2025 The Ritz – San Jose, CA
11/08/2025 Goldfields – Sacramento, CA
11/09/2025 1720 – Los Angeles, CA
11/10/2025 The Rosetta Room – Mesa, AZ
11/12/2025 Soggie Doggy – Lubbock, TX **
11/13/2025 The Wave – Wichita, KS **
11/15/2025 The Stache – Grand Rapids, MI **
** No Bastardane
DEAD HEAT:
Justin Ton – rhythm guitar
Ricky Garcia – lead guitar
Chris Ramos – vocals
Yogie Rodriguez – drums
Vincent Amador – bass/ rhythm guitar
Lorence Chanch Meraz – bass
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