Story Behind The Song

this is part 2 in a 3-part story about a family during the apocalypse, where the dead are coming back to life to feed on the living. told through the perspective of the son. he escapes after watching his mother devour his father, escapes death, but injures his leg, yet still somehow makes it to a helicopter waiting to evacuate people to safety, but as they take off, they are overrun by a horde of the living dead, with his now zombified father leading the pack, who causes the helicopter to crash, and ends with the boy watching his now zombie father attempt to kill him, but, just as we think his life is about to end in a fiery crash, he is not killed, as he goes on to explain him watching his father be dismembered in the crash which is illustrated by the lines "there's only one leg to be thrown from the blade" and "there's only one arm to be thrown from the blade" the song then ends with the line "they bring me back down to the end again", which is referencing his father being killed for the second time that day. once by his mother, and now again in the helicopter crash.

Song Description

This is an extremely energetic, aggressive, balls-out, no frills heavy/thrash metal song with harsh, screaming vocals for the entirety of the piece. the vocals are not typical screaming or harsh vocals one would expect in a metal band that are garbled and not easily understood. They are quite easy to distinctly hear and understand the individual syllables and words even if the listener isn't a fan of heavy music. The song is in an easily recognized and easy-to-follow song structure, used a lot by pop artists when they want to write easy to remember songs, which is referred to as "A-A-B-A", meaning there are two main "ideas" or variations of those ideas, but any variations center around one core idea that is easy for listeners to sonically identify as separate and different, even if not familiar with this style of music. The song features technical musicianship and playing. The entire song is powerful, with constant double bass drumming, two different blazing guitar solos, one of which is in an unconventional time signature or "odd-meter", which the song flawlessly uses to display the musicians comfortability with writing and performing the ability to switch between regular and odd time signatures, while still maintaining a groove you can bang/nod your head to. The song has a guitar harmony section, and a massive breakdown of syncopated rhythms. Syncopated rhythms is a term that means a pattern that is not straight forward, and has random notes omitted, creating broken, or start/stop 16th note patterns that feel almost like a stutter, that this song, and most syncopated rhythms you hear in music, usually play "staccato" which means short, precise, punchy, quick notes that are not sustained and instead are muted very fast after they're played, that don't repeat in the same bar and, instead, are repeated in 2 or 4 bar "phrases", where the guitars are palm muted or "chugged" on the low string of the guitars, usually done on strings that are open and