Song · Beartooth
“The Past Is Dead” by Beartooth
From the album Below (2021)
“The Past Is Dead” by Beartooth appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2021. It was first released in 2021 on the album Below. Its best result is #5 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #16 hard rock song of 2021 and #80 of the '20s.
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Beartooth pulled "The Past Is Dead" out as the second single from Below, their fourth album, in 2021, hard on the heels of "Devastation". Frontman Caleb Shomo said it was one of the first songs written for the record, and the band spent more than two years wrestling it into shape; the version that made the album ended up setting the tone for everything around it.
It keeps the band's usual full-throttle energy, but the vocal leans on melody and feeling instead of all-out screaming. The video puts the band amid pyrotechnics and pits them against a surreal demon, and a vinyl pressing with "Skin" on the B-side was capped at 500 copies. The song climbed to 14 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2021 | 30 |
| 2021 | 34 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2021 | 98 |
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