Rock band Crashing Wayward have released the single and video for “Going Blind.” It’s the latest track from their upcoming six-song EP, The Fight Within, out later in 2026 on Golden Robot Records.
The song paints a “portrait of someone who’s cornered by their own desperation.”
The band’s Peter Summit shares:
I wrote the lyrics to feel as if they were speaking of losing the love of your life, but for me it’s really about losing hope in yourself and the internal screams for help. I only write from what I have experienced or what comes from my own personal perspectives, so ‘Going Blind’ was not going to be any different.
“Going Blind” went through a transformation from its beginnings to the final version.
As Peter Harris explains:
About five days before we went into the studio, our producer, Shawn McGhee, asked me to come up with some additional guitar melody ideas for the outro chorus. As I was listening to the demo and brainstorming, I started hearing the song in a completely different way. Before I knew it, I was tearing the arrangement apart and rebuilding it from the ground up. Once everyone in the band sat with it, we all agreed the rewrite took the song to another level. Looking back, it was definitely the right call and a great example of how staying open to last-minute inspiration can completely change a song for the better.
For the “Going Blind” video, directors Shane O’Neal and Deed DeBruno filmed the band performing at a remote outdoor location in Las Vegas.
Peter Summit comments on the video:
There are no gimmicks and no special effects, and we do not use AI in our videos. I just hope to create or capture something cinematic. At the end of the day, all I want is to make sure the band’s performance and energy captured is just how we are live. We want to make everything that we do feel genuine by presenting the most authentic versions of ourselves.
Crashing Wayward features Peter Summit (lead vocals), David Harris (lead guitar), Carl Raether (bass), Tucker Jones (guitar), and Jon Gunder (drums) and on their new EP they hope to “speak a lot about life as we know it, reflecting outward to inward.”
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