🔥 “It hurts like hell, but it feels like heaven…” 🔥
That’s the emotional chaos that Hands Like Houses and Normandie tap into with their powerhouse single, “Hurts Like Hell.” Released in December 2024, this track doesn’t just slap — it scars. In the best possible way.
🎧 Watch the music video now
👉 Hurts Like Hell – Official Music Video
🎙️ Two Worlds, One Fire
This track isn’t just another alt-rock banger. Hands Like Houses, the genre-bending rock force from Australia, team up with Normandie, Sweden’s melodic post-hardcore sensation, to deliver something bigger than both: a high-octane anthem drenched in emotion, self-destruction, and beauty.
The vocals trade off like a call-and-response from opposite ends of the emotional spectrum — heavy, vulnerable, and urgent. You can feel the weight of every line, like it was yanked out of the darkest corners of a memory you still replay at 2 AM.
💔 What’s It About?
“Hurts Like Hell” is about the sweet pain of toxic connection. The kind of emotional high you get from someone who wrecks you, but you keep crawling back anyway. It captures that twisted dopamine cycle of heartbreak and passion in lyrics that cut deep:
“You keep tearing me down just to build me again…”
It’s not just emo. It’s real. The kind of real that makes your chest heavy and your head nod at the same time.
🎛️ Behind the Sound
The production is surgical. Clean yet chaotic. Beautiful but gritty. Props to the powerhouse production team:
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🎚️ Callan Orr
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🎚️ Alexander Pearson
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🎚️ Philip Strand
The track is part of MESO, one half of the band’s two-part double album A T M O S P H E R I C S. This side of the album dives into warmer tones, contrasting the colder, darker soundscapes of EKTOS, released earlier. “Hurts Like Hell” is the burning centerpiece of this concept — sonically intense, emotionally layered, and made to be played loud.
🚨 Meet the New Voice of HLH: Josh Raven
This is also the first official release featuring Josh Raven (ex-The Faim) as the new frontman of Hands Like Houses. And wow — he delivers.
Josh steps into the spotlight with an edge that blends effortlessly into HLH’s existing style, while pushing them into new territory. He brings presence, power, and passion — and fans have noticed.
This isn’t a rebrand.
It’s a rebirth.
🔗 Links – Go Support This Masterpiece
🎬 Watch “Hurts Like Hell” on YouTube
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📀 Stream on all platforms
Released via: Hands Like Houses. Under exclusive license to Civilians.
👕 Merch & Info
🌐 handslikehouses.live
📺 YouTube Channel
👉 Hands Like Houses Official
📸 Normandie
👉 instagram.com/wearenormandie
🔥 Final Thoughts
“Hurts Like Hell” isn’t just a song. It’s a moment — a turning point for Hands Like Houses, a high for Normandie, and a whole-ass experience for anyone listening. This is the kind of track that rips through playlists and stays stuck in your head like smoke on your clothes after a fire.
Turn it up. Let it burn.
Then hit replay — because some pain is worth feeling again.