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| Released | January 5, 2018 | |||
| Recorded | 2017 | |||
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| Length | 3:23 | |||
| Label | Hollywood | |||
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"Red Cold River" is a song by American rock band Breaking Benjamin. It was their lead single from their sixth studio album Ember . The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
"Red Cold River" was first announced as the lead single for the band's sixth studio album, Ember , in December 2017. [4] A short teaser clip of the song was released on January 1, 2018, [5] [6] while the full song was later officially released on January 5, 2018. [7] [8] The song debuted number 38 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in its first week at radio, making it the biggest gainer on the chart of the week. [9] A music video was released on January 18, 2018, featuring alternating footage of the band performing, and scenes of an anguished father who finds his missing daughter dead near a creek. [10] The man meets a Native American woman who helps him see a vision of the man who killed his daughter and was a part of the search party. The father transforms into a monster, hunts down the killer, and beats him almost to death, but stops upon seeing the angel of his deceased daughter. [10]
The song features a "dark and moody" guitar riff [11] and quiet-loud dynamics, with sections of "lunging, low-slung rhythms juxtaposed by soaring atmospheric moments". [12] The band's lead vocalist Benjamin Burnley employs screamed vocals in the pre-chorus, followed by clean, melodic vocals in the chorus, singing the dark lines "I can't feel anything at all / this life has left me cold and damned". [11] [12] The song's "heavy yet melodic" sound was compared to prior Breaking Benjamin songs "I Will Not Bow" and "The Diary of Jane". [13]
Initial critical reception of the song was mixed. Metal Injection praised the song for being "catchy" and having a "memorable enough hook" that takes effect after hearing the song three times. [14] MetalSucks was less enthusiastic, criticizing that it sounded too much like early 2000s rock music from the band and similar artists such as Seether and Theory of a Deadman. [15]
In its first week of release, the song sold 22,000 copies in the US. [16]
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