808 drop before the solo was A1-- Guitarists got chops, riffs are dank, drummer knows his shit, singer reminds me of Anima Tempo, and has got the whole Chester Bennington thing going on where when he does the halfway between screaming and singing there's like 3 different vocal tones you can hear, even if the vocal tracks aren't being doubled at that time. The song slaps, it's radio-friendly as all hell, though, which is (for my tastes) immediately out the window. But that's me being an elitist metal snob. I'm not sure you can call this thrash, or metalcore... it's heavier than hard rock, but not quite heavy enough to be straight-up metal... it's not death, and although the musicians are obviously talented enough to pull it off they decided for some reason not to include any prog elements (like odd meter/melodic or metric modulation, time sig. changes, string skipping)-- in fact I think I heard one tiny little diminished sweep lick in the solo... but the whole thing feels like it was written for the radio. It's polished, it's clean, but it bums ME out, because I'm such a die-hard metal head, that when I hear dudes who obviously have the talent to make really, really dope songs sacrifice that artistic choice in lieu of selling copies or radio play (which is the feeling this song gives off x1000), it just makes me sad. It could have been so dope. That riff is mean as ****. That solo has potential to be something really cool, and if you let the damn reigns off the drummer and let him write a few transitions or work on arranging parts, or writing syncopated breakdowns, it could really move this from what I'd define as "Radio metal" or "Leave it to beaver metal", since the song formatting is so heavily molded to the "let's get this on the radio" typical pop song structure, to be a track with more substance, with the depth you're all obviously capable of writing, but are holding back from putting in your songs. Don't get me wrong, I'm probably in the minority on this-- in fact, a record label would tell you the opposite. Your version is tailored more for commercial success, whereas the version I suggested is more geared towards being fulfilled as an artist and gaining respect within the metal genre from other artists and die-hard fans. But, to be clear, I do think you've written a very well-designed, good sounding, easy on the ears song that most fans of heavy music wouldn't turn off if it came on. I do think it toes the line between pop and metal pretty damn well with minimal sacrifice of artistic integrity. For my tastes there's a tad too much NuMetal influence for me to want to buy a ticket to a show, but since I'm a metal musician, I'm hyper critical in that respect. I think you guys write well together, you're creating radio bangers that could make you a bunch of cash. The chemistry yall have playing together is palpable even through just a once-through listen.