Boltcutter is the second single from Bury Tomorrow’s forthcoming seventh album, The Seventh Sun.
Prior to the song’s release, it was played on the band’s 2022 co-headline European tour set.
Guitarist Kristan Dawson comments through Kerrang!;
From the second we put the finishing touches to Boltcut...
[Intro: Dani Winter-Bates]
Boltcutter
[Verse 1: Tom Prendergast & Dani Winter-Bates]
(Break free) No longer I can take it
(Pull them down) No further have we gone
(Rise up) My apathy always greater
(Listen now) When your bitterness is concerned
[Pre-Chorus: Tom Prendergast]
Take over
Worn so thin from knowing
Imposer
They strip us down to nothing
[Chorus: Dani Winter-Bates & Tom Prendergast]
Break free from the facade of their tyranny
Pull them down from their thrones of authority
Rise up and take back what you are owed
Listen now, we refuse to be controlled
Break free from the facade of thеir tyranny
Pull them down from their thrones of authority
Risе up and take back what you are owed
Listen now, we refuse to be controlled
[Verse 2: Tom Prendergast]
You've lost your way
Shadows consuming
Losing the day
Cycle resuming
[Bridge: Dani Winter-Bates]
Boltcutter, resistance smothered
Pale horse, we will no longer suffer
Boltcutter, resistance smothered
Pale horse rides, our world left in the gutter
[Pre-Chorus: Tom Prendergast]
Your words blur
Torn from sense or meaning
Self-loather
Your grip on me is slipping
[Chorus: Dani Winter-Bates & Tom Prendergast]
Break free from the facade of their tyranny
Pull them down from their thrones of authority
Rise up and take back what you are owed
Listen now, we refuse to be controlled
Break free from the facade of their tyranny
Pull them down from their thrones of authority
Rise up and take back what you are owed
Listen now, we refuse to be controlled
[Outro: Tom Prendergast]
Break free (Losing the day)
Pull them down (Cycle resuming)
Rise up
Listen now
Break free
Boltcutter was written by Kristan Dawson & Dani Winter Bates & Dan Weller.
Boltcutter was produced by Dan Weller.
Bury Tomorrow released Boltcutter on Tue Nov 29 2022.
Dani Winter-Bates:
This is probably the most savage song on the record. It’s not like anything we’ve ever really written before. It’s nodding to the seventh-sun element of this togetherness, this being able to push through. It is as anti-hierarchical as you could probably get from me, a very anti-e...