"Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr" | ||||
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Single by Trivium | ||||
from the album Ascendancy | ||||
Released | March 2005 | |||
Genre | Metalcore [1] | |||
Length | 4:51 | |||
Label | Roadrunner | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Jason Suecof | |||
Trivium singles chronology | ||||
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"Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr" (often shortened to "Pull Harder" or simply "Martyr") is a song by American heavy metal band Trivium. It appears on their 2005 album Ascendancy and was released as the album's second single in the same year. [2] Metal Hammer named it "one of the decade’s biggest metal anthems". [3]
This song used to be played as the last song in a Trivium live set, however, since 2011, they have finished with either the Shogun single "Throes of Perdition" or " In Waves" from the album of the same name. During the Ascendancy tours, the song's verse was screamed, but for a short stint of the tours after The Crusade, the song was sung live in a raspy clean voice as opposed to the recorded version. Since the release of Shogun, the song has returned to its original vocals when performed live. [4]
At the Roadrunner United 25th anniversary concert back in December 2005, Trivium performed this song live with Machine Head's Robb Flynn on vocals. That concert was released as a DVD called The All-Star Sessions, along with a documentary. [5]
Vocalist and songwriter Matt Heafy has described that "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr" "is a look at a villainous tyrant; one who can simply kill and destroy on will, push his faith upon all, be hated by all other powers around - and still be loved by many that he rules." [6]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr" (radio edit) | 4:21 |
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