I DON’T THINK DEMON HUNTER’S “DRIVING NAILS” IS ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK IT’S ABOUT

Demon Hunter are a Christian band, so when I heard that their new song is called “Driving Nails,” I assumed it was about… y’know. And while the lyrics are certainly spiritual-ish (“I was the light/I was the quiet heart”), the chorus leads me to believe the song is not actually about Christ – at least, not in any literal sense: vocalist Ryan Clark sings “It’s driving nails into my soul,” and as the Bible tells us, nails were driven into much more than just Jesus’ soul.

ANYWAY, you can listen to the song here. It’s terrible, which should come as no surprise, because it’s a Demon Hunter song, and the nicest thing you can really say about Demon Hunter is that the Clark Brothers (one of whom, Don, is no longer in the band) are talented graphic artists. But what is up with the effect they laid over Ryan Clark’s vocals? Was that an aesthetic choice, or is he just that terrible a singer that they needed to mask his pipes? It sounds like Gary Suarez on the Invisible Oranges Crustcast.

“Driving Nails” will be on DH’s new album, The World is a Thorn, which comes out March 9 on Solid State.

-AR