Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms

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"Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms"
Megadeth A Call To Arms.jpg
Single by Megadeth
from the album United Abominations
ReleasedSeptember 26, 2007 [1]
RecordedApril 19, 2006 – January 18, 2007 [2] [3]
Studio SARM Hook End Studios in London; The Steakhouse in Studio City, Los Angeles; Big Fish in Encinitas, California; Backstage Productions in Belper; S.I.R. Rehearsal Studio in Hollywood; Mustaine Music in Fallbrook, California [4]
Genre Thrash metal
Length3:54
Label Roadrunner
Songwriter(s) Dave Mustaine, Glen Drover
Producer(s)
Megadeth singles chronology
"À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)"
(2007)		"Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms"
(2007)		"Head Crusher"
(2009)

"Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms", also known simply as "Never Walk Alone", [5] is a song by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It was released as the second official single from their eleventh studio album, United Abominations (2007).

Contents

Background

"Never Walk Alone... A Call to Arms" was co-written by Mustaine and guitarist Glen Drover, the only song on the album not written solely by Mustaine. [6] When bassist James LoMenzo was asked about the lyrics of the album, he said to "talk to Dave about that". [7] The song features Christian overtones, with it reportedly being about Jesus. [8]

The song is one of Glen Drover's favorites on the album. [9]

Music video

The video for "Never Walk Alone" was filmed on August 22, 2007, at Cheyenne Studios in Castaic, California. [10] The video was released as a DVD single. [11] It was directed by Labworks. [12]

The music video features the band playing on a highway with a destroyed city behind them. [13] The shots of the band are interspersed with shots of planes and a dirigible flying through the sky. [13]

Reception

The song was received very positively. Metal Forces wrote that "Never Walk Alone..." was "one of the album's strongest tracks". [6] A writer from Sputnik Music wrote that the song had some of the best lyrics on the album, while criticizing many other songs. [14] Another writer, from Pop Matters, wrote that the song was "performed with an energy we haven’t heard since the days of the classic Mustaine/Ellefson/Friedman/Menza lineup." [15]

Personnel

Production and performance credits are adapted from United Abominations liner notes. [4]

Megadeth
Additional musicians
Production

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