| Today, Sheffield hardcore band ROUGH JUSTICE have released their new single and music video for ‘Faith In Vain’. The track is taken from the band’s recently announced debut full length album Faith In Vain, due 12th January via MLVLTD. Watch the music video to ‘Faith In Vain’ here. Stream ‘Faith in Vain’ here. While the title track is explicit in the description of guitarist Elliot Reynolds‘ resentment of his Christian upbringing, this is not the overarching theme of the record. The song, ‘Faith In Vain’, details the anger and confusion felt by Elliot when faced with the existential upheaval that came from renouncing his earlier faith. Through years of introspection, Elliot came to realise that he had more questions than answers and approached the other members of ROUGH JUSTICE to pitch this as an idea for a song. As a result, ‘Faith In Vain’ is more than an outward expression of these emotions and feelings and an inward expression of cathartic release. The band have always been fans of a huge variety of different styles of music, and they really leaned into their love of grunge when writing the chorus, expressing their willingness to break away from hardcore convention. Because of this, ‘Faith In Vain’ is a particularly memorable point in the record and guitarist Ed Armitage’s powerful vocals in the chorus are reminiscent of the late Chris Cornell. |
