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They’ve broken crowdsurfing records – 901 in a single gig – but their music confronts deep, difficult subjects from mental health to toxic family members

The song amassed millions of streams by the time restrictions were lifted, and that momentum has only been built on in the years since, as the band toured with scene megastars such as Lamb of God and Trivium. Their impact on live crowds is now as famed as their high-octane music: footage of a venue-wide circle pit that they incited at the Hammersmith Apollo went viral in 2023, and last year they set a new record for crowd-surfers at Derbyshire’s Bloodstock festival, scoring 901. Through its acoustic verses and climactic choruses, Salt the Wound is about the question, in Taylor’s words, of “how far do you expect the people around you to fix your problems before it then becomes an issue for them and drags them down?”

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