“Save Yourself” by Stabbing Westward

"Save Yourself" came off Darkest Days, Stabbing Westward's 1998 album, as its second single, and it's the industrial rock band at their most direct. Dave Jerden produced, Bryan Carlstrom and Ulrich Wild recorded it, and the band mixed it themselves, stacking grinding guitars, cold electronic pulses and a roaring, cathartic chorus.

Singer Christopher Hall wrote it for his fans. After years of songs about depression, mental illness and loss, listeners were coming up to him at shows and writing to him with their own tragic stories, as if he'd found a way out. He hadn't, and the song says so: he's in the same dark place they are, and nobody can do the saving for you.

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