![]() ![]() I fought him on it because I believed this song could be something special. I remember showing the song to the band and instantly Brandon thought it was too heavy and didn’t feel that it could make it onto an album. At this point I was listening to a lot of hardcore/metal bands I grew up on which shaped the riff and energy on the track. These days artists seem to be fearful of stepping out of their comfort zone and doing something other than their norm or what’s trending. ![]() He continued, "As a musician in the rock world you can sometimes feel like you have to play it safe. I remember sitting down and thinking to myself that as a band, we've never released a song with zero singing in it." I was chasing after an idea of salvation that I could do nothing to reach so I decided to start building myself outward to make myself the king of the shit hole I had put myself in.”īassist Hayden Tree, who also provided some extreme vocals on the new song, offered, "This is the heaviest song we’ve released to date. There’s a mural of heaven we put up that covers my entire living room wall and I was thinking about the book Paradise Lost where Lucifer said something like, 'I’d rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven,' and knew that if I was doomed to be stuck in this loop then I may as well make the most of it. I thought that rock bottom had a definite end but it felt as if I could go as low as I’d let myself. I’d felt like my purpose had been taken, and I had fully melded into the idea of just letting myself rot. Lead vocalist Andy Leo commented, “'Dancing with the Dead' came about during the rock bottom phase of quarantine. ![]()
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