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Release Date: June 8th, 2014
Genre: Alternative Rock
Recorded:2014
Producers: James Urie, Bill Owens
Label: North Hill Records
Songwriters: James Urie
2014 is proving to be quite an eventful year in our industry. With multiple comebacks, scandals and music being released, this year could go down in the books at quite frankly one of the best. As urban music occupied many positions on the charts earlier this year, other genre's are quickly becoming massive factors in our music making not only our radio stations, but the talent being presented to us not only diverse but mostly good too. One artist who has been more or less behind the scenes tending to other endeavors while this is all happening is none other than alternative rock superstar, James Urie. After releasing his album "The Recovery" in 2013. The record drifted through the uprising and new found confidence and self appreciation of James Urie, letting go of anger that he had shown in the mainly depressed sophomore effort "Tales From The Struggle". Each of Urie's albums and projects reflects on where the star is in his life, as he shares his inner deepest thoughts with his dedicated fan base that can relate to him as well. After marrying is then wife Gemma Kane, the album clearly showed a confident Urie and things were going excellent for his personal life, and it showed in the final product of the album. Although sounding strong on the record, the lyrics showed that James was still holding on to personal demons. The album not only garnered a strong commercial response pushing out three number one singles as well and following the album James embarked on a world tour. After his tour finished, it seemed all was going well and James took a break to spend time with his wife Gemma and pursue an acting career. This led to Urie landing the lead role for an upcoming Starz tv series entitled "Everything's Fine" where Urie will be playing a nerdy film major student, Ronan Rabenstein. All seemed to be going well and James even confirmed that he had been working on a new project. And all of a sudden, Gemma and James Urie split and had a divorce that settle out of court with rumors spreading that Urie had to legally pay Gemma money. Their fairy-tale of a relationship seemed to only be dark and not all of what it seemed behind closed doors due to the sudden and nasty break up these two had. After the breakup, it seemed that James's journey to break his depression took two steps back and he never really opened up about it. Everything's Fine got a greenlight and James was known to be a hot prospect on set, but what people really wanted was some new music.
Earlier this month, James released pictures of him recording new music and then took to his website to post previews of three different songs. His fans immediately went into a frenzy, as anticipation built up for this new music. The lyrics were each heartfelt and deep which had us viewers recognize this time in James's life as being quite tough as we can assume. And with a few weeks of waiting, James Urie is here to finally let us in in the continuation of his story. What does he have to offer? We are about to find out. "Better Than Hell" is the first single taken from an unknown but upcoming project by American rock artist James Urie. The record was produced by James Urie and Bill Owens and drifts into a more heavy rock sound that James Urie hasn't exactly gone into this yet in his career. The record is looked at as an alternative rock based record that slowly breaks into a heavy rock influenced smasher by the time the chorus rails on to the track that is perfect for all rock fans alike as it gives you classic Urie, but a breath of fresh new Urie attitude and sound that makes it a compelling listen throughout the track. Urie sings in his signature hallow, possessed and deep like tone with hard hitting lyrics and hard hitting guitars and a drums that go perfectly with the James's vocals. The record also slowly rises into a big chorus that takes you totally off guard. James hit the studio with metal producer Bill Owens in early 2014 looking to create the instrumental pieces for his backing band and overall production for the song as Urie had been listening and becoming inspired by metal and more hard hitting rock music after the breakup. James made it evident that the record would be quite different from his previous works but maintain his signature core sound and vocals, and made sure this new sound didn't come across as Urie trying to reinvent himself as a metal artist, because that is exactly what he isn't. After working closely with Bill Owens and writing the track solely, the birth of "Better Than Hell" came about.
The record tells the story of Urie being used and abused mentally and regretting his mistake of letting this person into his life, but also explains that the love they shared was surprisingly a thrill to him and that anything is better than hell. He recognizes that he was nothing but a toy and was used and goes onto unleash anger at this person explaining that karma is a bitch and in the end he'll win, and ends it off by saying that that person is no better than hell rising the question of ...is this toward Gemma? Whether or not, it's a captivating story that you have to listen for yourself to really understand James. Us explaining will not get it across. Trust me. The record starts off very calm and zen, with just acoustic guitars quickly strumming in the beginning of the record. Seconds in James's is heard with his hallow vocals that sounds as if it's emotional but building in anger. After the first lines of the song, over the strumming acoustic guitars is a haunting chanting vocals by Urie that is repeated that is repeated and then breaks in a heavy guitar and big drums. The chanting continues and James continues the next lines of the song and the song breaks into the chorus that features quite brutal guitars and drums that includes the chanting and Urie belting out the emotional chorus. Following is words the chanting and instruments continue to ram on heavily. The record returns back to the acoustics for the second chorus and does the same for he next chorus of the song. Following he second chorus, the song then breaks into the bridge where the instruments slow down where James sings emotionally about karma being a bitch and explaining that in the end he'll win. After holding a long note, the song breaks in the heavy guitars once more and Urie sings part of the chorus and then the beats go even bigger as he finishes out the song with a reworked ending chorus ending with him saying Cause you are no better than hell, recanting his earlier claims of having a thrill of this person "killing him well". Having the song come to an haunting end.
This single will be available on June 8th, 2014.
BETTER THAN HELL
We're on the wrong sides of each other,
You're draining my soul and another,
Raping my mind with lies about yourself.
This was all a movie to you
[Chanting]
You didn't think I was much to prove,
Just another toy to be thrown upon your shelf.
And you must admit, you've been quite lucky,
Why are these still my surroundings?
You wonder why I don't speak up a thing,
But trust me darling, that's the hardest thing.
I hate it when you damn misuse me!
Take my heart and hold it against me.
But it's a thrill when you kill me well
And I don't want anyone else.
I hate I'm not the only one,
You'll search a million faces, just to get your own
But I won't change, time will tell
'Cause anything is better than hell.
You look in and see me off-guard,
Fool your way inside and hit me hard,
Your angel ways were always the Devil's path
High on spirit, saw it in me,
But we never mixed so gracefully
It's always me who suffers the aftermath
And I must admit, I've been quite generous
It's just the way out would be treacherous
I'd miss the highs and the heat
Even if it's not weighty.
I hate it when you damn misuse me!
Take my heart and hold it against me
But it's a thrill when you kill me well
And I don't want anyone else
I hate I'm not the only one,
You'll search a million faces, just to get your own
But I won't change, time will tell,
'Cause anything is better than hell
But hate spreads like disease,
And comes back around.
And karma's a bitch,
But you got what you earned, you deserve this.
When I'm out, you won't care,
Or you'll beg in despair,
Either way, I'll win.
Cause I hate it when you damn misuse me,
Take my heart and hold it against me.
I hate it when I'm not the only one,
You'll search a million faces, just to get your own.
Well I hate that I let you damn misuse me!
You took my heart, and played it against me
It's no thrill when you kill me well
Now I'm looking for anyone else
I know I'm not the only one
You can't lie now; I've seen what you've done
But things are changing, time will tell,
'Cause you are no better than hell.
Edited by user 03 June 2014 16:33:07(UTC)
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