Clutching onto a doomed relationship until your fingernails start to crack is a feeling a lot us can all too easily recognize. But nobody can convey the sensation of dangling from a high precipice of the heart quite like Avalon Stone, the consistently astounding post-grunge heavy rocker who’s rendered just such a predicament in typically dizzying style on her new single, “Cliffhanger.”

Drawing a picture of imminent romantic freefall that’s equal parts despair and acrophobia, Stone casts herself in a position in which there’s simply nowhere to go—whether up or down.

Avalon Stone, one of Canada’s promising alt-rock talents, has just released her latest single, "Shaking Me Up," and the track, produced by JUNO Award-winning Kevin Dietz, delves into the depths of a toxic relationship, capturing the complex emotions of being both stuck and defiant.

Avalon Stone is a dynamic force in the alt-rock music scene, known for her moody, mysterious, and magnetically passionate sound. With her roots from a young age performing classic rock and blues, and now at 20, her evolution to modern alt rock with grunge and metal influences, Avalon has quickly become a voice for those navigating the complex journey of self-discovery in today’s world. She is also a staunch advocate for mental health.

And now, some hard-earned wisdom from Avalon Stone: Personal growth is a bitch. Sometimes, you even have to be dragged into it.

The emergent rock sensation shares that message with a forceful authenticity that belies her 20 years on her third and latest single, “Drag Me.” Check it out on YouTube here:

In a three-minute confessional that’s harrowing yet positively habit-forming, Stone struggles to escape the darkest pits of her own mind and to admit she may need to be carried out of there on somebody’s back.

Ever feel trapped in your thoughts, yearning for childhood innocence? On her stunning sophomore single, “Harder,” Kitchener, ON’s Avalon Stone sings with a world-weariness that belies her 20 years—and makes it land with a raw, emotional force that explains why she’s already a respected not-so-elder stateswoman of rock in her native Canada. Check it out on YouTube here:

Avalon Stone's hard grungy alt-rock ballad ‘Harder’ is a deep dive into the struggle against mental confines, intrusive thoughts and innocence lost. 

Getting up in the morning, my mind doesn’t stray from the bed
Fear, it paralyzes and it occupies my head
Because once I’m awake, there’s no excuses left
It’s getting harder than it used to be, Stone laments. Days getting longer, all I do is sleep.

Sometimes you just get that sickly, sinking feeling you’re about to be played, and that’s what Avalon Stone’s new hard-rocking debut single “Forget You” – available now – from her forthcoming Album Chained is all about, produced by JUNO Award-winning producer Kevin Dietz (Glorious Sons, JJ Wilde, Billy Talent). Check it out YouTube:

 Heavy, grungy, and metal-tinged, “Forget You” takes us on a journey from that initial niggling feeling all the way to aftermath of the breakup, where Stone experiences both regret and steely resolve:

Feel it burn
Want you to return
Now I’ll have to learn
To try to forget you