“Ashes on the Altar” feels like that second before you confess, that inhale before you decide to stop hiding, and driving an alternative rock anthem, Silas Grime returns with a track that breaks down emotional barriers and favours truth over comfort.
The instruments push the vocals, making you confront your own doubts and desires. The song is a search for acceptance of something, and it exemplifies that pull, and the point at which there’s such a thing as waiting for signs, and then you have to step into the fire. It’s faith-based, and it addresses internal discord without offering easy answers. There is a great deal of feeling in Silas Grime’s voice. There’s no varnish for the perfectly turned phrases, just ferocity and truth. The music shifts along with the emotional journey, from thought to powerful assertion.
The title imagery is of giving up and breaking down, not succumbing to loss. What sets “Ashes on the Altar” apart is that it refuses to make doubt oppositional to faith. This stands in the space between them, and rock music battles, rocks with questions, rocks with pride. It’s a more-than-perfect song for fans of alternative rock that combines the rough with the spiritual. It’s a moment of decision as distorted.
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