Sometimes you just gotta ride the riff and let it take you where it may. Certain Death know this too well, and while the Brooklyn rock band’s adrenalized new single “Paranoid” first takes us to a scary place, it has enough might n’ flight to come crashing out through the other side and back around again. The throwback rock and roll barnstormer hit the streams over the weekend (August 11), and it doesn’t take long to reach a ’70s-flavored cruising altitude as it explores the seedy underbelly of city nightlife. “This song really speaks to the shared experience of overindulgence and paranoia in nightlife that is both repulsive and irresistible,” says singer Henry Black. “It’s all too familiar to anyone in a scene of artists pulling late-nighters.” Push the pedal on the floor and ride with Certain Death below, and be warned: New album Strange Garden is set for release this October.