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I Prevail – Hurricane
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“Hurricane” is a suitably stormy track, accompanied by a music video, in which clean vocalist Brian Burkheiser explains the emotional and mental turmoil I Prevail went through in
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I Prevail – Gasoline
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[Intro] / Let's burn it fucking down / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Back from the dead to tell you that I'm alive / Killed the old way, but I survived / Fuck the blueprint, I redesign
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I Prevail – Bow Down
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“Bow Down” is the first single from I Prevail’s second album, Trauma. The song, as referenced in the music video, refers to how the music industry attempts to control the image of
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I Prevail – Fake
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser, Eric Vanlerberghe] / I go to bed with these thoughts that I can't control / They're feeding on my brain like a cannibal / I wake up right before I find
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I Prevail – Scars
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“Scars” is the lead single from I Prevail’s 2016 debut full-length album, Lifelines.
I Prevail vocalist Brian Burkheiser shared with Alternative Press:
“Scars” was the first
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I Prevail – Low
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[Intro: Eric Vanlerberghe] / I'm so damn low / I'm so damn low / I'm so damn low / [Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser, Eric Vanlerberghe] / I can't lie, I'm fallin' / The floor gave out
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I Prevail – Blank Space
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“Blank Space” is an explosive metalcore cover of the hit song by Pop artist Taylor Swift. On this cover, besides adding hard-hitting bass and extreme scream-vocals, I Prevail takes
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I Prevail – RISE
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On “RISE”, Brian Burkheiser and Eric Vanlerberghe preach tough love. Emphasizing with brutal guitar riffs and hard-hitting drums, they want you to know that there’s no gain without
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I Prevail – Crossroads
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On “Crossroads”, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser sing about keeping hopeful, and true to the band’s name, prevailing through darkness.
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I Prevail – Paranoid
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[Intro: Brian Burkheiser] / Something isn't right, I feel it in my bones / Every time I look around, it follows me home / I think I'm paranoid / [Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser & Eric
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I Prevail – Already Dead
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On “Already Dead”, Brian Burkheiser and Eric Vanlerberghe inch homicidal on their enemy. Accompanied by vicious drums and potent guitar, Eric and Brian stomp on their enemy’s
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I Prevail – Lifelines
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On title track “Lifelines”, Brian Burkheiser and Eric Vanlerberghe regret the life they’ve destroyed, wishing they could surf back on a lifeline to a new beginning.
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I Prevail – Bad Things
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser] / I've got a lot of bad things in my mind / The simulation crashing by design / And my mind is dangerous, don't play with things you don't / Know, know
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I Prevail – Let Me Be Sad
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser] / I'm holding back right now / 'Cause I'm numb to what's around / I miss the life I used to have with you right here / Now everything has turned to grey
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I Prevail – Alone
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On “Alone”, backed by mellower guitar riffs and smooth instrumentals, Brian Burkheiser is left in the dust of a bitter break-up and betrayal by someone he used to love.
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I Prevail (Ft. Delaney Jane) – Every Time You Leave
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On “Every Time You Leave”, Brian Burkheiser and featured Canadian EDM singer Delaney Jane sing about falling in and out of a relationship, and how much it hurts to leave, even when
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I Prevail – Love, Lust, and Liars
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On “Love, Lust, and Liars”, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser explode out of a relationship with a cheater. With emphatic scream-vocals and violent bass, they want this ex to
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I Prevail – Self-Destruction
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[Verse 1: Eric Vanlerberghe] / I said, "Go away" / Take a moment, think it over, I said, "Not today" / 'Cause everybody sucks, and I cannot relate / And everything is fucked, and I
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I put the picture on the shelf / Leave the memory behind / But the truth is I can't say goodbye
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We might try to put our past behind us, but our past is still part of us. And we can never leave ourselves.
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I Prevail – Closure
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser] / "Better off dead" / "You're better off dead" / That's what you told me in my apartment / Threw the keys on the floor / You won't see me again / [Pre-
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I Prevail – FWYTYK
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[Intro: Brian Burkheiser] / They said this record isn't ever gonna make it / They say just fall in line and go put out the same shit / They tell me pushing limits only gets you
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I Prevail – Body Bag
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[Verse 1: Eric Vanlerberghe] / There's a million fucking reasons that you got it bad / But everybody's leaving in a body bag / Go / Save your problems for somebody else who gives a
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I Prevail – Goodbye (Interlude)
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“Goodbye (Interlude)” is a somber pause for remembrance. In 2016, unclean vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe’s friend committed suicide. On this interlude, Eric and clean vocalist Brian
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I Prevail – Come and Get It
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On “Come and Get It”, backed by pummeling guitar riffs and violent bass, Eric Vanlerberge and Brian Burkheiser flip a metal middle finger at their haters.
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I Prevail – Deceivers
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On “Deceivers”, backed by thrumming guitar riffs and potent bass, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser fight back against those who’ve put them down.
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I Prevail – Doomed
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser] / I put one foot in front of the other / Another step closer to the ledge, will I make it? I wonder / And now I'm free fallin', gravity's callin', and I
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I Prevail – Judgement Day
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[Verse 1: Eric Vanlerberghe] / I walked into the darkness / I set myself on fire / I stared into the heartless / And I found out death is a liar / So burn it all to ashes / Drown
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I Prevail – Heart vs. Mind
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Title track “Heart vs. Mind” starts I Prevail’s debut album with a veritable bang. Lead vocalists Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser, backed by triumphant guitar riffs and
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ILLENIUM, Excision & I Prevail – Feel Something
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“Feel Something” is an explosive collaboration between Illenium, Excision, and I Prevail. On the track, future bass, dubstep, and metal collide, as I Prevail brings epic scream-
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I Prevail – Outcast
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On “Outcast”, accompanied by hard-hitting bass, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser celebrate a new underground generation, embracing its uniqueness and flaunting its most
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I Prevail – Pull the Plug
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On “Pull the Plug”, backed by despairing guitar and explosive bass, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser are close to giving up, conflicted between wanting to live and wanting to
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I Prevail – The Enemy
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On “The Enemy”, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkheiser take back their power, stomping right back on the person that’s oppressed them for so long.
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I Prevail – Choke
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[Intro: Eric Vanlerberghe] / Choke / Yeah / [Verse 1: Eric Vanlerberghe, Brian Burkheiser] / I ain't been here for a long time / But it's been a long time since you met somebody
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I Prevail – My Heart I Surrender
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On “My Heart I Surrender”, Eric Vanlerberghe and Brian Burkenheiser sing about loving someone who might not love them back. The track has relatively toned-down instrumentals
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I Prevail – Stuck in Your Head
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On “Stuck in Your Head”, Brian Burkheiser and Eric Vanlerberghe spin a musical allegory on an unfulfilling, toxic relationship they’ve moved on from.
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I Prevail & Joyner Lucas – DOA
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“DOA” encompasses some of the horrible things that occurred in the world as of the song’s release: police abusing their powers and killing people who deserve trials, young people
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I Prevail – Visceral
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[Verse 1: Eric Vanlerberghe] / I am visceral, new and original / Come for you like Armageddon / Dig your grave, I'll fill the casket / I am visceral, born unforgivable / Come for
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I Prevail – There's Fear in Letting Go
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser] / I keep these coffins in my mind / I put my fears inside / There are graves that I've dug / Since we last left off / That you will never find / [Pre-
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I Prevail – Deadweight
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[Intro: Eric Vanlerberghe] / Cutting out the deadweight / Cutting out the deadweight / [Verse 1: Eric Vanlerberghe] / Let me take a second to get this through to you / It's time
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I Prevail – The Negative
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[Intro: Brian Burkheiser] / I'm so sick and tired of the negative / [Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser] / I'm on the edge tonight / Closer to the ledge, you were right / Lost in my head
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I Prevail – Breaking Down
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[Chorus: Brian Burkheiser] / I think, I think too much / I'm a little bit paranoid, I think I'm breaking / Maybe it's in my blood / Got a pain that I can't avoid, I think I'm
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I Prevail (Ft. Justin Stone) – Rise Above It
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[Verse 1: Brian Burkheiser & Eric Vanlerberghe] / I've been patiently waiting, tying my stomach in knots / I've been lost in the moment, going to war with my thoughts / And if you'
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I Prevail – Chaos
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On “Chaos”, accompanied by desperate, driving guitar riffs and bass, Brian Burkheiser and Eric Vanlerberghe cling to hope amidst dark times, as they struggle to reach home.
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I Prevail (Ft. Caleb Shomo) – Deadweight - Live from Fayetteville / 2019
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[Intro: Eric Vanlerberghe, Brian Burkheiser] / Let's pick the energy back up / I wanna see the biggest fucking circle pit this motherfucker can hold / Are you ready? / Let's spin
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