Facing Fire – “Facing Fire” (Pavement)
Facing Fire hearkens
back to the glory days of nu-metal – downtuned guitars, heavy jams, soaring
hooks and emotion to spare. “Dying Inside” is a fiery anthem that checks all
the boxes (‘raise your fists and fight the hatred inside that’s killing your
life’ frontman Scott Artis decries), a tune reminiscent of Somewhere In Between-era Systematic. Facing Fire slow things down
on “Filthy Life” thanks to some sludgy riffs and “Overcome” is another defiant
anthem thanks to lines like ‘I feel alive, you can’t hold me down too long, I
realize that I’m not the only one, this life is mine to make of it what I want
and I will fight, I’ll rise up and overcome.’ Closing track “Fake” brings Facing Fire full circle with more of the
same chugging nu-metal sounds that got things started. It’s only four tracks,
but Facing Fire makes them all count.
Go Download: “Dying Inside”
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