It is their first single from their eighth studio album Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.
[2] In just one week in July, the song had accumulated 1.9 million airplay audience impressions, 340,000 streams, and 1,000 downloads in the US.
[3] This, coupled with the release of a second promotional song, "Bruised and Bloodied", propelled writer and frontman Shaun Morgan to top the Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, only the second to top it since its creation in July 2020.
[5] The song was described as "despondent"[2] and "beautifully tormented",[6] containing lyrics such as "It's so dangerous, all this blamelessness / and I feel like I've lost all the good I've known.
"[7] The song was described as "alternative metal anthem"[2] and a slow burn building of a "rock jam".