{"id":807793,"date":"2020-05-26T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/watch-the-word-alives-inspiring-fan-led-video-for-thank-you"},"modified":"2020-05-26T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:01:00","slug":"watch-the-word-alives-inspiring-fan-led-video-for-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-the-word-alives-inspiring-fan-led-video-for-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: The Word Alive\u2019s Inspiring Fan-Led Video For \u2018Thank You\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>This a beautiful celebration of how the band&#8217;s music has touched so many.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/thewordalive2020.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks back <strong>The Word Alive<\/strong> revealed that they needed their fans to &#8220;Sing along, play instruments, air guitar and more&#8221; to help them make a video for their song &#8216;Thank You&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Well the result is now online, and it&#8217;s a beautiful celebration of the band&#8217;s fan base showing how their music has the ability to bring people together, even in these times where they have to be apart.<\/p>\n<p>Have a watch below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_M4cUEK8VYc\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The track is taken from the band&#8217;s latest album &#8216;MONOMANIA&#8217; which is out now via Fearless Records.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the title track:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jhOLhwNzN58\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We spoke to frontman Telle Smith around the time of release to get the full story on the record. You can read the full interview HERE but here&#8217;s a little snippet:<\/p>\n<p><strong>It feels like you\u2019ve been building up to this album for a long time. Does it feel like that care and consideration you\u2019ve put in is already paying off?<\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;It really does. I feel like it\u2019s really hard for a band like us who came from the world that we came from to try to not alienate that beginning, but also open up more. We don\u2019t want to be a band that\u2019s just known for breakdowns and for guitar players who can play really crazy parts &#8211; we have so much more depth to us musically, vocally and lyrically. For that to be embraced now more than ever is really rewarding for us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We\u2019ve been one of those bands that, when we started were just fans of what was happening in that moment &#8211;&nbsp;Under\u00f8ath&nbsp;was massive,&nbsp;A Day To Remember&nbsp;were starting to blow up,&nbsp;August Burns Red&nbsp;and&nbsp;Killswitch Engage&nbsp;were massive. We were like \u2018Okay, these are our favourite bands from the scene, let\u2019s try to make music so we can tour with them\u2019. Then as we got older we thought, \u2018Well that\u2019s great and we love those songs, but it wasn\u2019t really us\u2019 &#8211; we felt like it wasn\u2019t the music that we wanted to be making, and then playing on stage every night potentially 10 or 20 years down the line. It\u2019s hard with music because, obviously it\u2019s subjective, but when someone connects with your art they have two options &#8211; they either appreciate that so much so that you can do anything and they go \u2018that\u2019s fine because you made this thing that I love, but that\u2019s not for me\u2019; or you have the other side which is you make this thing, and now it\u2019s like you have to stay in purgatory of continually doing that otherwise you\u2019re hated and called sellouts, and that you don\u2019t care about your fans. They are two very extreme differences, and we\u2019ve really been trying to shed the skin of the latter. We\u2019re all growing and experiencing life just like our fans are.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>So how exactly have you got to this point?<\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;For us, if you look at our music as a big picture you can see that what our band has gone through &#8211; it\u2019s like a book. You can see the shift in perspective and mentality that we\u2019ve had, and you can see all these personal stories laid out for you. I think that it\u2019s so much bigger than one song, or even one particular style of music we\u2019ve made &#8211; we\u2019ve tried to hone in on our own sound though, and that\u2019s what our goal with the last album was. The goal with this one was to figure out what that meant. To be honest it really started with \u2018Dark Matter\u2019. Then \u2018Violent Noise\u2019 was experimenting a little bit more. There were some songs we loved, but ones we also felt didn\u2019t feel like us as much. So we wrangled it back and started writing way sooner than we ever have with any album before \u2018MONOMANIA\u2019. We feel like we weren\u2019t going to do a record until we found that sound, and then we did. It led us to here.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can grab the album from our mates over at EMP right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emp.co.uk\/p\/monomania\/466436.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emp.co.uk\/p\/monomania\/466436.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/monomania_artwork.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/watch-the-word-alives-inspiring-fan-led-video-for-thank-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This a beautiful celebration of how the band&#8217;s music has touched so many. A few weeks back The Word Alive revealed that they needed their fans to &#8220;Sing along, play instruments, air guitar and more&#8221; to help them make a video for their song &#8216;Thank You&#8217;. Well the result is now online, and it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 06:42:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}