Irish alt/post-metalcore crew Words That Burn has released a new single in ‘Fire At Will’, that’s available from Blood Blast/Believe.
Vocalist Roni Vox said of the single: “The song is about being pissed-off, but feeling like to have to apologise for expressing how you feel when it’s a perfectly natural thing. If you don’t like something or if you disagree with someone’s point of view, you can be facing the firing squad should it be taken, willingly or not, out of context – so it’s kinda like having to immediately recoil after you say something that doesn’t fit other people’s narrative or viewpoint…..right or wrong!”
“I’m not even talking about political conversation, because honestly, I’m not really that political myself. It could be about music or art or movies, or beer, or cars, or sport – anything can be seen (or taken) as an attack, which to me is a weird knee-jerk reaction regarding things that are, for the most part, subjective.”
“It’s healthy to express how you feel. It’s not healthy for someone you don’t know to make you feel bad about it when maybe, they don’t (or don’t want to) understand where it is coming from. So, I guess what I’m trying to say is I don’t think anyone should be held at gunpoint for expressing themselves, even if they are not necessarily being positive in that particular moment in time.”
The single is available here and you can check out the video below.
Having shared stages with the likes of Alien Weaponry, Beartooth, performed at Exit Festival in Serbia, and most recently, Bloodstock Open Air in the UK last year, Words That Burn has been drawing considerable interest from the flourishing Irish Metal scene, as well as a steady-growing international fan base. They will be playing with As I Lay Dying for their debut Irish show in The Academy, on Tuesday, August 9th. Tickets are available here.
Previously, the band released an anthemic new single ‘You’re On Your Own’, that’s available from Blood Blast/Believe.
The song is taken from their forthcoming third as-yet-untitled studio album, which was produced and engineered by Josh Schroder (Lorna Shore, King 810).
“The general point of the song is that the world will keep turning regardless of what we do, or who we are,” said vocalist Ronni Vox of their new single. “Nature doesn’t care whatever side of whatever fence you sit. It doesn’t care what your politics are. It doesn’t care what clothes you wear. It doesn’t care how many followers you have.”
“We’re all caught up in this vicious, media-fashioned spin-cycle that has progressively normalised humans being dreadful to each other, and glamourises the worst things about us as we become more and more consumed with creating angels and demons.”
“We share, but a blip of existence on this planet, so allowing our psyches to become saturated with silly things like “who’s an asshole today” sounds a bit crazy to me! The world is full of assholes, always has been, always will be… Yet the world keeps turning.
I’d rather enjoy the ride.”
