“Familiar Realm” by CKY

"Familiar Realm" came out on May 25, 2005, the only single CKY pulled from their third album, An Answer Can Be Found. Singer and guitarist Deron Miller wrote it with guitarist Chad I Ginsburg, who also produced the record, and it's a sturdy slab of alternative metal. The band have mixed feelings about it, though. Miller granted that it was the song that sold the album but called it the wrong pick for a lead single: he'd have gone with "The Way You Lived." Drummer Jess Margera named it his least favorite to play live, since it never comes across on stage as smoothly as on record.

Matt Lenski directed the video, the only one made for the album and the band's first without Bam Margera, and it leans into their gruesome streak with assault, suicide and murder.

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