“What Drives the Weak” by Shadows Fall

"What Drives the Weak" came off The War Within, the 2004 album Shadows Fall made for Century Media, and went out as its second single. The band produced, recorded and mixed it themselves with Zeuss, the music is credited to all of them, and Brian Fair wrote the words and roars them over the top, with Jonathan Donais and Matthew Bachand on guitars, Paul Romanko on bass and Jason Bittner pounding the drums.

It climbed to 38 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 48th ceremony, where Slipknot's "Before I Forget" took the prize. Zach Merck directed the video, which drops the band into a house full of bikers: the others mix with the locals while Fair drifts from room to room, running into one strange sight after another.

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