Within Reach may be teenagers, but they mean serious business. Packed with talent and licks that would impress bands with members twice their age, the London/Essex metal quintet are here to make a serious impression in the second half of 2024.
Their upcoming new single, Armageddon, is a brutal, yet excellent introduction to showcase exactly what these young men are capable of. Armageddon is out now, and is available for streaming on Spotify on this link.
Here's Within Reach guitarist and clean vocalist Bailey Dopson to fill in some more of the details about their brand new single:
"‘Before I get into the actual meaning behind the song for some of us when we wrote it, I will always say to anyone to look at any lyrics from any of our songs and take something from it they can relate to something that’s personally happened to them so that each of our songs mean different things to different people which is what I think makes music so powerful.
The major theme behind the song is about someone important in your life that you know isn’t good for you but you still have attachment to them, so the song tells the story of someone trying to break that cycle. The chorus lyrics talk about how you might have so many thoughts and pent up emotion about a certain situation or person but when it gets to that moment, when you are face to face with that person and you have to opportunity to say what your mind has been racing over, your mind goes blank and you feel kind of numb in the moment because you’ve thought about it so long.
As well as this, the whole ideology of “dancing with the stray ghost of a person that I used to know” describes still dealing with past traumas that may create struggles you face in the present time because of someone in your past."
Within Reach stormed fully to life at the beginning of last year, and have already collaborated with renown alternative clothing brand Mary Wyatt and been invited to play a show in Germany - which was their second ever live show! Since then, they've been busy honing their craft, taking up every live opportunity they can.
On that note, are plenty of opportunities to catch Within Reach live across the UK over the next few weeks. There are headline shows in Northampton (26th) and in Sheffield (27th). Within Reach will also play one of the UK's fastest rising independent festivals at the end of the month; Hometown Festival at The Hairy Dog in Derby on the 29th.
Within Reach Live Shows
September 26th - Northampton - The Lab
September 27th - Sheffield - The Green Room
September 29th - Derby - Hometown Festival @ The Hairy Dog
For ticket information for all shows, please visit the Within Reach socials.
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