“Bulletproof” by Godsmack

"Bulletproof" was Godsmack's opening move for When Legends Rise, their seventh studio album, released in 2018 as the band's first music since leaving Universal Republic for BMG two years earlier in search of more creative control. Sully Erna wrote it with Erik Ron, and it plays like a victory lap for survival: the song, like the album around it, is about a band that has held together and kept working as a unit for more than twenty years.

Erna has said he writes from whatever hits him emotionally, and that the hard part is deciding how much of himself to lay bare. Here the answer leans toward defiance rather than confession. Their previous single, a take on the Beatles' "Come Together", had come from 2012's Live & Inspired, so this was the real reset.

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