While Breaking Benjamin’s 4th studio album “Dear Agony” is still over a month away from release, the band had set the first single “I Will Not Bow” from “Dear Agony” free late Tuesday night. The release was prompted after the track was leaked to a Chicago radio station on Tuesday, the band felt it was necessary to release it to their MySpace page.

The track began streaming at 8pm Eastern Time on Breaking Benjamin’s MySpace website and has received nearly 73,000 plays since it’s release Tuesday night. Shortly afterward, the song began appearing on YouTube, the popular video sharing website from various users of the service. After listening to “I Will Not Bow” for the first time, I took a minute to digest it and immediately played it again, from the very first listen it felt very strong. The band sticks to it’s roots with “I Will Not Bow” and take their unique sound to the next level.

“I Will Not Bow” should see similar positions on the US Mainstream Rock charts as “So Cold” and “Breath” when they were released in 2004 and 2007 respectively. With the release of the film “Surrogates” coming to theaters a couple of days after “Dear Agony” hits the street, that should help boost requests for “I Will Not Bow” as it is a feature track on the films soundtrack. Overall, “I Will Not Bow” is a great song, and I look forward to hearing it on my local rock station next week, I know I will text, call or email my request to have it played. “I Will Not Bow” should be one of the most popular songs from the bands upcoming album, but if it’s any indication as to what the rest of the album sounds like, we may just be in for surprise.

Benjamin Burnley’s vocals are really great, he maintains his previous sound from past Breaking Benjamin albums and that’s alright with me.

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