Red Letter – Burn It Down (2022)
When we hit a roadblock in our lives, it is easy to give up and wallow in despair. If you need a burst of strength to help you get over an obstacle, Red Letter have a blistering blast of metalcore that may be just what you need in ‘Burn It Down’. Packed with brutal energy, the single carries a profound message below the surface, just waiting for you to engage with it.
Featuring a guest appearance from Shawn Spann of I, The Breather, the band not only helps us with our struggles, but gives us the metal nourishment we need to continue growing as individuals. Using their alternative sound, the five-piece band offers us all a connection while letting us know that we can achieve anything if we put our minds to it. Filling the soundwaves with impactful lyrics, fresh sonic arrangements and hard-hitting melodics, they are definitely a band to keep an ear on.
‘Burn It Down’ pounds into your soul with a heavy metal tone. There is a blistering pace to the drums that meets the heavy vibrates of the guitars that shake the marrow from your bones. The aggressive energy of the melody forces your body to move to the flow, whether that is banging your head or bopping your entire body. The heaviness of the verses lightens for a more melodic metal flow on the chorus. The really brutal energy of the track is fantastic and needs to be blared at top volume. Through the paced movement of the music, you dive headfirst into obstacles that stop you from moving forward, only to be filled with the strength to break through them with the punch of the metal music. Later in the track, everything changes for a moment as a delicate piano line dances into life, bringing a sense of peace in the face of the metal storm.
While you are bouncing around to the metal melody, screaming vocals thrust you into the heavy sounds. Through the verses, the vocals unleash all the pain, anger frustration and hopelessness you might be feeling. It is an amazing cathartic movement that slices into your soul as it hits out at all the problems that we face and unleash all the things we wish we could say. As the more melodic chorus hits, the vocals swing to match with a rising anthemic call. The power of the chorus has you crying out with the band, shouting at the top of your lungs while feeling the freeing rush of emotive explosions. As the delicate piano line twinkles into the single, the vocals turn to a tender movement that rises into an overlapping of performances that hit the final stride of overcoming the obstacles in your life.
Red Letter team up with Shawn Spann for the epic ‘Burn It Down’ which unleashes a wave of metal catharsis and fills you with the power to overcome the obstacles in your life. Using an addictive blast of metal, they shake you to the core, only to help you pick up the pieces and build something stronger. The call of the vocals is as infectious as the music, making you shout out with them.
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