The song was released as the second single from the band's sixth studio album Ember in April 2018.
[1] While the video for "Red Cold River" chronicled a father finding his daughter had died, and finding the man who killed her, the video for "Torn in Two" chronicles the terrible emotions the father feels grappling with his lost daughter, and what he does afterwards.
[2] Visual effects and imagery appear on the screen as well, making allusions to Dante's Inferno and past Breaking Benjamin music videos, namely "Polyamorous", "So Cold", "The Diary of Jane", and "Never Again".
[4] The song was also released as downloadable content (DLC) for the music-performing video game Rock Band.
[5] The song was praised by music publication Loudwire for being "very representative of the darker, heavier tone that the band is portraying on their Ember disc...accentuated with the perfect balance of soul-baring, primal aggression and hypnotically melodic moments.