This is a time with ample reason for anger, and Austin’s Die Spitz is trying to inspire with it as they debut on Third Man Records with this up-with-power single ahead of their debut proper LP, Something to Consume.

Typically, these current it-kids of Austin’s rock scene are on the moshy punk side of a spectrum — downstream a bit from thrashy, traditional heavy metal — while recalling the invigorating abrasiveness of predecessors like the Distillers. On “Throw Yourself to the Sword,” the attitude is unmistakably punkish, but sonically, they veer a notch or two down the metal continuum, opening with a stuttering guitar riff that likely wouldn’t be out of place on a record from thrash’s Big Four in the 1980s. As songwriter and vocalist Ellie Livingston comes on the line, things quickly become quite — let’s see if I can turn another local band into an adjective — We-Don’t-Ride-Llamas-y. (Seamless. Nailed it.) Livingston’s delivery is of a decidedly aggro nature, shouting like the Llamas’ Max Mitchell at her most furious.

Billed by Livingston as “as an important reminder to let go of insecurities and embrace the power you have over yourself,” the track gets to that destination in sometimes-oblique, sometimes-not fashion. What it does consistently, throughout its punk-length runtime, is throttle the hell out of you. The riffage is relentless, with bits of the fist-raising chorus — “Throw yourself! To the sword! Take what’s mine then I take two times more!”– even recalling Rage Against the Machine a bit, particularly in Livingston’s “Uh!”s exiting the chorus. “Something to bind, someone to find, a darkness that takes us all/If it’s money you crave take a look around and pay the toll,” she belts in the most intriguing and poetic of the song’s two verses. “I am no man, I am not made of stone/Don’t let these old fools tell you, you got no backbone.” As evidenced by the chorus, “Sword” goes well beyond that call to assertion — and the rather self-assured “What’s it like knowing none of you bitches can compete?” perhaps suggests that a hip-hop mindset is part of embracing your power.

This isn’t Die Spitz’s first entry into a sound this decidedly on the metal end; in fact, it’s (arguably) not quite as heavy as last year’s single “I hate when GIRLS die.” But “Throw Yourself to the Sword” is more accessible and a more impressive example of what they can do when they get into headbanger territory — a call to spiritual arms in an era that can always use another one.

Watch the video for “Throw Yourself to the Sword” below.