“Redemption” by Shadows Fall

"Redemption" was the lead single from Threads of Life, the 2007 album Shadows Fall made for Atlantic with producer Nick Raskulinecz, and it hits like a fist through drywall: thrash riffing stacked high and heavy, with enough melody threaded through it to slip past the gatekeepers at rock radio. It premiered on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack before stations got their copies.

Singer Brian Fair pitched it as a celebration of music, and of the human voice, as a force for change. The metal world took the point. The song earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, reached 36 on the US Mainstream Rock chart and went all the way to the top of the metal specialty survey. It also turned up in the video game Madden NFL 08, and the band played it on The Daily Habit.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.