Heart Attack (Bang Bang Shake)

Album: Orthodox (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • In the Punk tradition, this song launches right into the caustic opening line: "Come on, like anybody cares your mother died."

    In our interview with lead singer Kyle Nicolaides, he explained that the song is intended to get people to look at their lives in a different way, which can put personal struggles in perspective. "it's basically a really, really abrupt way to say, Does a person in China really care what you're going through right now?," he explained.
  • This is a track from the first Beware of Darkness album, Orthodox. The album title plays into the existential theme of this song - how there is something bigger than you out there. The original idea was to call the album Bleak and make it a concept set about depression. The band decided that Orthodox was a more meaningful title, and they wanted the songs to be more varied in their content.

    "The first half of the word means 'right/true,'" Nicolaides told us. "And the second half means 'belief,' doxy. So it means 'right beliefs,' basically. That really hit home with the material of the record."

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