Following up from Sleeping With Sirens' explosive 2019, 11 track album, 'How It Feels To Be Lost', the emo outfit have now released a killer, new song 'Bloody Knuckles'.
Frontman, Kellin Quinn, has been busy working with the likes of Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker on their recent track 'Love Race', released in April, whilst also working with Sleeping With Sirens to release two covers earlier this year: 'No Rain' and 'Shadow Preachers', from "Paradise City". Therefore, SWS fans have not been completely deprived of the band's post-hardcore magic, but 'Bloody Knuckles' has been the band's first original track since their last album, in 2019. Needless to say, the track does not disappoint...
'Bloody Knuckles' is bursting with an angry, energetic, anthemic style. The release gives the impression that the band are back after the height of the pandemic with more force and rage than ever. Kellin Quinn works with harsh screams and heavier vocals in this track, perhaps more than we were used to in 'How It Feels To Be Lost', breaching into a more metalcore sound for this song. This teamed with a killer breakdown sets a heavy tone for any upcoming releases; hopefully a new album loaded with heavy vocals, pounding drums, and Sleeping With Siren's iconic emotive lyrics.
Read the track's lyrics here and check out 'Bloody Knuckles' below:
"Yeah
Pack your bags 'cause we got no reason to lay low, what was my line?
Fuck it
Two, three, go
Sing
La-la-la
You always said I'd be a disappointment
That I'd be nothing and I'd probably lose it all
You thought that I would trip and fall
But you'll never see me beg or crawl
Can't take it, won't fake it, punch a hole through the wall, try to break it
Can't change it, rearrange it, so I guess that I'll just have to face it
This is bloody knuckles and I'll show you how to play
It's the only way to escape from all the pain, yeah
We bought a one-way ticket 'cause we're sick of it all
Pack your bags we're going
At the bottom, but we got no reason to lay low
Like you care anyway, no
Here, take one last breath
You take all you can till there's nothing left
We'll never do what you say, no
Until we drop dead, never let go
Another day, another disappointment
My head is tripping, might as well just slip away
You all think I'm crazy anyway
You all think I'm crazy
Won't give in, never fit in, it's a knife in the back that you twist in
You dig in, don't pretend, I'm already down, but you keep on pushing
Life is a fight, but you don't ever fight fair
Beat us to the ground, but we will never stay there
We bought a one-way ticket 'cause we're sick of it all
Pack your bags we're going
At the bottom, but we got no reason to lay low
Like you care anyway, no
Here, take one last breath
You take all you can till there's nothing left
We'll never do what you say, no
Until we drop dead, never let go
I won't give in, never fit in
It's a knife in the back that you twist in
This is bloody knuckles, I'll show you how to play
It's the only way to escape from all the pain
Away from all this pain
We bought a one-way ticket 'cause we're sick of it all
Pack your bags we're going
At the bottom, but we got no reason to lay low
Like you care anyway, no
Here, take one last breath
You take all you can till there's nothing left
We'll never do what you say, no
Until we drop dead, never let go"
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