"Rawkfist" is a 2003 single from the Canadian group Thousand Foot Krutch

Thousand Foot Krutch

Thousand Foot Krutch is a Canadian Christian rock band formed in 1995. They have released five major studio albums: Set It Off , Phenomenon , The Art of Breaking , The Flame In All of Us , and Welcome to the Masquerade . They also have one live album, Live at the Masquerade...

 and has been their most successful song to date. It is the fifth track from their second album (first album with Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...

) Phenomenon

Phenomenon (Thousand Foot Krutch album)

Phenomenon is the second studio album by Christian rock band Thousand Foot Krutch, and their first project on Tooth & Nail Records. The album was released on September 30, 2003. It displays a different style than the band's previous album, with less rapping and instead, a fusion of modern rock and...

. ESPN Sports Center chose it to be played in the Ultimate Highlight sequences on their program. It was featured on the Smallville

Smallville

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season 3 episode titled "Velocity".

Personnel

• Trevor McNevan
  Trevor McNevan
  Trevor McNevan , also known as Teerawk, is a Canadian musician and lead singer/songwriter of Thousand Foot Krutch and pop punk side project FM Static along with Steve Augustine...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   and guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Joel Bruyere - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Steve Augustine - drums
  Drum kit
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• Jamie Aplin - guitar (music video only)

Although the guitar credits go to McNevan on the recording, the song's music video features the band's touring guitarist.

Style

"Rawkfist" is a hard rock song with edgy guitar and bass. The past rap

Rapping

Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

 influence on TFK's songs is evident as the lyrics are rapped as much as sang.

Music video

"Rawkfist" received a music video, most likely because of its minor mainstream radio play. The video features the band in a bright building with a lot of special effects, such as Jamie Aplin's hand freezing when the vocals stop (while the music keeps playing) and starts moving again after vocals come in. Also the area around the band will change from a bright room to a dark blue tunnel.

Charts

• In 2004 "Rawkfist" peaked at #16 on the Billboard
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  US mainstream rock charts, it also peaked on the Active Rock Charts at #23 and finished the year at number #72.