Metalcore outfit, Convictions recently released a new single and music video ‘Stigmata.’ The new track is poetic, rhythmic, and at times, through-composed, featuring a brutal vocal performance from frontman Mike Felker, paired with soaring cleans from Dakota Alvarez (Hollow Front).
Directed by longtime friend and former bandmate, John Fleischmann, the cinematic visual is on par with the band’s pristine visual identity and reflects the raw, unadorned passion in their lyricism:
I walked across a desert of strife and despair.
Spent countless years afraid, choking on desperate prayers.
I’m breathing doubt and depression
Exhaling aggression.
I’m starving for salvation for a faithless world.
God, hear these words
Guide me through this wasteland.
Clear the dust from these eyes.
Provide a path.
Give me the strength to survive.
Stigmata!
His scars are the proof.
No matter what you say
His words are the truth.
Stigmata!
Push these nails through.
I sing for the Son. You’re nothing but traitors.
You snakes will try to lock me up, mock these words, and feed the lies of the corrupt.
I won’t deny my Father’s crown.
So you can crucify me upside down.
Crucify me upside down
I’ll die for my Father’s crown!
Stigmata!
His scars are the proof.
No matter what you say, His words are the truth.
Stigmata!
Push these nails through.
I sing for the Son. You’re nothing but traitors.
I lay my burdens at the tree. Only in death am I set free.
I’ve been through hell!
I’ll face the storm as the clouds build and rain over my head.
And the sands wash away into a sea of blood.
Cleanse me.
Cleanse me through tribulation.
Kingdom come!
Thy will be done.
Video for ‘Stigmata’
Convictions’ latest effort “I Won’t Survive” has been released on May 7th. 2021. The Ep is their first independent release since leaving InVogue Records in 2019.
Our review of “I Won’t Survive” can be found here.
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