Roman Candle have shared a new song, focusing on the disillusion of the life handed to you by the music industry as members of a band.
Titled ‘Bite Harder Than You Bleed’, it showcases the band’s feelings on how quickly things change when you’re suddenly at the centre of attention within the music industry. Presenting via a dizzying blend of banshee howls and razor-sharp riffs, a perfect distance between hardcore battery and screamo vulnerability, it’s a caustic way to state your case.
It serves as a reminder to never let the world around you try to dilute what makes you who you are. And when music and art is concerned within that, it’s a case of not letting those who haven’t lived this be the ones to tell you if it is worthy enough or not.
Vocalist Piper Ferrari had this to say about the song, stating, “‘Bite Harder Than You Bleed’ came from this place of being completely jaded with the music industry—the pressure to act the same, think the same, and worship the same idols. It’s that ‘kill your idols’ moment where you realise even the people you look up to are just as hollow, anxious, and bruised as you are. Lines like “falsely shallow, hollow, refusing to follow” and “your idols hate you too” were me processing how disheartening it can feel, but also how freeing it is to acknowledge it. The song is basically my reminder that you have to bite harder than you bleed—push back, stay sharp, and refuse to let the world wear you down.”
The track is the band’s second of the year, following on from ‘Can We Watch Something Happy?’ which arrived last month.
