Necessary Evil

Album: Graveyard Shift (2017)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song features guest vocals by Jonathan Davis. The band's collaboration with the Korn frontman came about as a result of Motionless in White opening for Davis' group in the fall of 2016 during their co-headlining The Nocturnal Underground tour with Breaking Benjamin. Chris Motionless explained in a promotional video released by Roadrunner:

    "We were working on this song and I was working on the vocals for it, and it just felt like… There was something about it that I felt like… As I was writing some of the vocals, I was writing it hearing Jonathan's voice as the person I was writing it for. I had written different parts of the song that, of course, felt like, 'Okay, I'm gonna sing this. I'm gonna sing this.' And then it came time to other parts, and I was just hearing Jonathan on this song. And knowing how much of a great, nice… all of [the Korn guys] were really nice people on the tour and were super great to be around and nothing but pros in every sense of the word. I was, like, 'Okay, I'm just gonna risk it and throw it out there and see if he's interested,' and he came back and said he was definitely into doing it."
  • The song's music video features a raucous birthday party filled with plenty of moshing and pyrotechnics, as well as the smashing of a cake. The clip was directed by Max Moore, who has previously worked with Code Orange and Of Mice & Men.

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