“Failure” by Breaking Benjamin

"Failure" broke Breaking Benjamin's long silence in March 2015, the lead single from their fifth album, Dark Before Dawn, and the first thing the band had put out since going on hiatus in mid-2010. It was also the first recording to surround Benjamin Burnley with a brand-new lineup, and he kept a firm hand on the wheel: Burnley wrote it, sings it, plays electric guitar, produced it, and recorded it with John Bender.

The new crew fills in the rest, with Jasen Rauch and Keith Wallen on electric guitars, Aaron Bruch on bass, Shaun Foist on drums and percussion, and Bruch and Wallen stacking the backing vocals, before Chris Lord-Alge mixed it. Rock radio welcomed them back hard: it became their third Mainstream Rock number one after "Breath" and "I Will Not Bow", held the top for nine weeks, and went Gold in 2017.

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