Maryland hard rock band Silvertung recently released a single called “Crutch”, as well as a music video and a lyric video to go along with it. It’s a fantastic song that has a relevant message that is very important in the times we’re all living in.
The Silvertung lineup includes: Speed Vincent (lead vocals/guitar); Marc Marchetti (guitar); Jimy Grime (bass/backing vocals); and Andy Romeo (drums). This current group has been together for a couple years now and they just seem to mesh so well together when it comes to making music as well as onstage. Their style would appeal to fans of modern rock and metal, as well as classic rock. It’s the type of music that is so unique it doesn’t fit into just one category of rock.
In my review of Silvertung’s last single, “Integrity”, I don’t think I told the story of how I came to find this band. My friend, Abe, has been a fan of them for a while. I would see his posts about them, and one day I decided to check them out. I was hooked! I find so many bands because of friends who share a love of hard rock and metal. A big reason why I write this blog is so I can share bands and music I love with other people. It’s one of the best things about music!
I had the pleasure of talking to Speed Vincent about “Crutch” and the process of putting new music out. We actually discussed an interesting topic about whether or not fans at shows would want to hear a new song that maybe isn’t exactly finished yet, or wait until the final version is complete? I was actually stumped on that question. I said to Speed that I think it’s whatever works best for the band. Sometimes it might be helpful to play a song live for an audience so the band can see what works and what doesn’t and also get feedback from the people listening.
“Crutch” started out with a guitar riff that Speed had come up with and stuck with him. It became the main chorus riff of the track. He tweaked it, and Marc Marchetti added some of his own touches to it to make it that much better.
Speed wrote the lyrics, then re-wrote them, to come up with the final version of the song. Interestingly, he shared with me that he was still re-writing even when they were in the studio. Speed says he’s always working on his song-writing techniques and is willing to try different things to make a song great.
Speed and I talked about the meaning behind “Crutch”. It is about the overwhelming influence the media and politics can have on our lives and refusing to be controlled by them. We are stronger and more powerful. We don’t have to “feed the crutch” of the false narrative that they’re trying to put out there. As the chorus lyrics say, “We won’t go down without a fight” and “We are sick of it all and we won’t take any more”.
The band worked again with producer Steven Wright of Wright Way Studios. They’ve been collaborating with him for about ten years now. Personally, this is my favorite Silvertung song yet. It has so many great elements. That guitar riff in the chorus is so catchy and gives the song a certain groove that makes you want to dance – if you’re the dancing type. Speed’s voice is powerful and portrays the strong emotions behind this song. Jimy Grime’s hard vocals are a perfect reflection of our inner selves reminding us what we have to do to stay strong and not be controlled.
As with Silvertung’s previous release, “Integrity”, Wade Spencer of Spencer Images did the official music video for “Crutch”. They’ve been working with him for about seven years now. In the video, Speed is sitting, staring at multiple TV news screens with a look on his face as if his brain is numb from the overload of information and the false narrative. Throughout the video, Jimy is screaming in Speed’s face like an inner voice urging him not to give in to the control of the media and politics – “Don’t feed this Crutch!”. The video has a bold color scheme of red and black, and there is a mysterious, shadowy element that Speed says they were going for.
While the band is always working on ideas for new music, currently “Crutch” is the primary focus and they really want as many people to hear it as possible. The song already had almost 92,000 streams on Spotify at the time I published this review. Along with the official music video, the band also just dropped a lyric video.
Silvertung has been on the road a lot this year, performing in the Midwest as well as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The band, in conjunction with Fuel The Funeral Entertainment, just announced The Fallout Tour with their friends Awaken The Giant, from Houston, Texas and Biloxi, Mississippi. These two energetic bands did a tour of the Midwest together back in March, and they got along so well they decided to go out again. This tour will start in Richmond, Virginia October 20th and will take them to South Carolina, all the way to Biloxi, Louisiana, and Alabama, then back to Tennessee and Kentucky. There are still some dates and locations to be determined on the tour, which, if the previous one is any indication, should be a blast for all who are able to attend.
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