Fire It Up (Thousand Foot Krutch song)

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"Fire It Up"
Fire It Up TFK.jpg
Single by Thousand Foot Krutch
from the album Welcome to the Masquerade
ReleasedJuly 28, 2009
Genre Christian metal, alternative metal
Length3:07
Label Tooth & Nail
Songwriter(s) Steve Augustine, Joel Bruyere and Trevor McNevan
Thousand Foot Krutch singles chronology
"Forward Motion"
(2009)
"Fire It Up"
(2009)
"Already Home"
(2010)
Alternative cover
TFKFireItUp.jpg
Radio Promo Cover

"Fire It Up" is the third single released by the Canadian rock band Thousand Foot Krutch from their fifth studio album Welcome to the Masquerade. It charted at No. 18 on active rock charts, No. 35 on the Billboard rock charts and No. 5 on Christianrock.net. [1] The song is used in numerous promotions by sports teams, race drivers and in movies [2] [3]

Contents

Promotion and use in media

Credits

Music video

Trevor McNevan stated that a music video for the song, which will make it the first song from Welcome to the Masquerade to receive one, was in production. However, on May 9, 2010, he stated on his Facebook page that "we [TFK] shot one a while back, but hated it... so, it's on the fence there."

Other information

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [13] 35

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