San Antonio, TX rockers Kingdom Collapse have dropped an impassioned high voltage cover of Natasha Bedingfield’s, ‘Unwritten.’ You can listen to it HERE.
The song is the latest single from their debut album Survivor, which will be released on October 30 via Mascot Records. Pre-save it here.
They’ve hit the road hard in the US and have spent the last month touring with Nashville rockers RED, and they will pause for breath before storming the festival stages and touring with Royale Lynn in July and then spending August on the road with Of Virtue and Savage Hands. Catching them live will make you understand how that kinetic energy has seen them share stages with the likes of Three Days Grace, Nothing More, 10 Years, From Ashes To New, Fire From The Gods, ATTACK ATTACK!, and Adelita’s Way.
The band have taken the 2004 multiplatinum pop hit by the English singer-songwriter and moulded it into a stadium-shakin’ anthem for a new generation. Keeping the emotion and empowering messaging, they’ve turned it into a mosh-pit calling banger.
Talking about covering the song, singer Jonathan Norris reveals, “I remember first hearing ‘Unwritten’ and I had to be 11 or 12 at the time. That song got stuck in my head and never left. It’s an anthem for embracing life and embracing yourself, so the message fits perfectly with what we do. Throw a big wall of rhythm guitars on that chorus and there you have it.”
When they cry out, “Reaching for something in the distance, so close you can almost taste it, release your inhibitions, feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you, only you can let it in,” you feel every single word.
When you dig further into Kingdom Collapse, you can see why this song hit such a nerve with the band. Self-empowerment is a huge tool to seize once you have the space in your mind. They create the soundtrack to survival. Alchemising unfathomable tragedy, trauma, and loss into massive and magnetic anthems powered by pummeling instrumentation and arena-size hooks that remind you to never give up.
Since signing to Mascot Records, ‘Unwritten’ has become the third single to be released from the upcoming album, following ‘Survivor,’ in which Norris opened up on “I wrote this while looking back at times of struggle and loss in my life. I realised that those experiences made me who I am today. We want our fans to know that whatever life puts in your path, you can overcome.”
‘Watch You Bleed’ wrestles with the desire for revenge and the realisation that holding onto that negativity only ends up hurting yourself in the end. Bassist Aaron Smith offers insight into the video, saying, “We decided to showcase the struggle between those feelings of anger while also coming to terms with letting them go. We wanted to depict the fight of good and evil that we all wrestle with internally.”
Kingdom Collapse originated from the childhood friendship between Norris and Smith, who grew up together, discovered music around the same time, and recognized its power after Jonathan lost his father at eight years old.
In order to cope, he immediately retreated into music and the embrace of a small community, which included Aaron’s family. This was the turning point where both boys realised the power of friendship, the power of music, and their potential together. “I saw my father die right in front of my eyes,” Jonathan sighs. “I didn’t even know what was happening. In some ways, that darkness has never left. Music became my light. I connected with it, and it gave me hope for the future. Kingdom Collapse is a band that carries that torch.”
Kingdom Collapse are: Jonathan Norris (Vocals), Aaron Smith (Bass), David Work (Guitar) and Gaston Flores (Drums).
