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Megalithic Symphony by AWOLNATION
Megalithic Symphony is an album by AWOLNATION, released in 2011. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 14 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Kill Your Heroes”, on 14 lists with a best position of #9.
Megalithic Symphony, the debut album from Aaron Bruno's AWOLNATION, came out on Red Bull Records on March 15, 2011, a year after the Back from Earth EP. Bruno, a veteran of Under the Influence of Giants, Home Town Hero and Insurgence, throws the kitchen sink at it: big, genre-blurring rock that lurches from electronic pulse to hard-rock crunch, with Kenny Carkeet, Drew Stewart and Christopher Thorn on guitars and David Amezcua on bass.
It was a slow burn. "Sail" peaked at number 17 on the Hot 100 and later became only the 57th song the RIAA certified diamond, while the album itself peaked at number 84 on the Billboard 200, sold 581,000 copies in the US by March 2015 and went platinum the following year. A deluxe edition followed in 2013, and a 10th-anniversary edition in 2021 piled on 27 bonus tracks, three of them previously unreleased.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Megalithic Symphony on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kill Your Heroes | 14 | #9 | – | 2012–2015 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.