Pariah have today released their new music video and single titled ‘Burn The Sky’, featuring Lonny Eagleton of Black Veil Brides fame, from their upcoming album ‘Holy Ruin’.
Pariah are back, and apparently they have decided that if the universe refuses to cooperate, the universe can go straight to hell. ‘Burn The Sky’ is a blistering introduction to the band’s next chapter, bringing together alternative metal, post metalcore, and enough existential rage to make your average Sunday morning preacher reconsider his career choices. Fronted by Quinn McGraw, Pariah deliver a track that sounds like a spiritual crisis has been plugged into an industrial strength amplifier. The arrival of Lonny Eagleton from Black Veil Brides adds another compelling dimension to the experience, making this collaboration feel less like a celebrity guest appearance and more like an alliance forged in the fires of musical destruction.
What makes ‘Burn The Sky’ particularly satisfying is that beneath all the aggression, there is something genuinely heartbreaking happening. McGraw is not simply screaming at the heavens for the sake of theatrical effect. There is grief, desperation, and a deeply human search for answers lurking beneath the wreckage. The song takes the familiar territory of questioning faith and salvation and gives it a considerably nastier set of teeth. Its heavier passages hit with the force of a collapsing cathedral, while the darker melodic elements offer just enough breathing room to remind us that anger is often sorrow wearing a leather jacket. It is a clever balance that keeps the track from becoming another interchangeable exercise in heavy music theatrics.
The music video gives this apocalyptic energy a visual companion, reinforcing the atmosphere surrounding a song that seems determined to drag every uncomfortable question into the light. Pariah have clearly embraced the dramatic possibilities of their sound, and the result fits the track’s confrontational spirit. With McGraw leading the charge alongside guitarist Bronson Wheeler and drummer Mickael Wilkinson, the project now operates as a full band, and that expanded identity feels like a natural progression. Eagleton’s involvement is especially meaningful given his longstanding friendship with McGraw, adding a personal connection to a collaboration that already has plenty of musical muscle. It is always refreshing when a guest appearance feels rooted in something real rather than a cynical attempt to collect another recognizable name for the promotional scrapbook.
‘Burn The Sky’ is the first single from Pariah’s upcoming debut full length album, ‘Holy Ruin’, and if this is the opening statement, things are about to get interesting. The song suggests an ambitious record built around grief, spiritual collapse, and the messy business of trying to find peace when life has thoroughly rearranged your insides. There is no tidy inspirational slogan here, no convenient emotional shortcut, and certainly no promise that everything will work out if you just think positive thoughts. Instead, Pariah offer heavy music for people who have a few things to work through, and they do it with conviction, atmosphere, and a welcome refusal to play nice. If salvation is supposed to sound this intense, perhaps the road to redemption needs a better publicist. For now, Pariah have delivered a ferocious, emotionally loaded introduction to ‘Holy Ruin’, and ‘Burn The Sky’ leaves a very convincing argument for keeping an eye on what comes next.
About Pariah & ‘Burn The Sky’
Pariah, the sonic exorcism of vocalist Quinn McGraw, returns with ‘Burn The Sky’, a scorched-earth anthem featuring Lonny Eagleton of Black Veil Brides. The track is the first single from Pariah’s debut full-length album, Holy Ruin, and the first music the project has released as a full band, with Bronson Wheeler (guitar) and Mickael “Mikey” Wilkinson (drums) joining McGraw.
Where January 2026’s debut EP Swansong documented one last, all-in attempt at a dream that had taken everything, Holy Ruin goes deeper into existential and philosophical territory. Told through the guise of myth and released as three EPs, the album is a confession: it follows a soul chasing salvation after losing someone he loves, unable to escape his grief. The full record moves between the heaviest and prettiest music Pariah has written to date, exploring loss, grief, and spiritual collapse.
‘Burn The Sky’ is where that story catches fire. Over a blend of alternative metal, post-metalcore, beatdown, and dark-pop production, McGraw takes aim at false idols, leaving the main character feeling “enslaved, a mortal bind / oppressed by the divine” and realizing that if salvation is a lie, he will tear it down. The chorus lands like a declaration of war: “Burn the sky, let the ashes fall / Tear the throne from its holy walls / If paradise is a poisoned dream / I’ll light the match to make it clean.”
But the rage carries a wound. Between the song’s most violent moments—“Cull the herd, skin the wolves / hiding among the sheep”—sit lines of grief and doubt: “I pray that you find peace / deep in the womb of Death” and, finally, “I watch as Heaven weeps / Will you forgive me?” It closes on a single, chilling resolution: “I’m emptying Heaven.”
“‘Burn The Sky’ is the moment grief turns into fury,” McGraw says. “The lengths we will go to avoid our grief are limitless. We go looking for answers, fail to find them, and can even blame the Divine for our loss. This song is intentionally angry, but ultimately beneath it all there’s a deep sorrow and a yearning to be forgiven. It’s my way of tearing everything down, hoping that beneath the rubble I’ll find my peace again.”
On bringing in Eagleton, McGraw adds: “Having Lonny on this track means a lot. We actually grew up together, and the first band we ever played in middle school was called At Risk. It’s been amazing to see the career he’s built since then, and for him to go on and join Black Veil Brides (a band that means so much to so many of is) is such a beautiful thing. Having him part of the first chapter of Holy Ruin feels like the right way to start, and it was amazing getting to reconnect musically.” Revolver says “Pariah glows with Byzantium effervescence.”
Pariah’s listeners have found their own grief, doubt, and quiet unraveling in the music, and felt seen because of it. Out of that, a global community has formed: the Seekers. As McGraw puts it, Pariah is “heavy music for heavy hearts.”
Pariah began in a “dark night of the soul.” After selling every instrument he owned and trying to make peace with walking away from music for good, McGraw wrote his debut EP ‘Swansong’ as a last rite for twenty years spent chasing a dream that never materialized. With “Burn The Sky,” that last rite has become a beginning. Pariah remains an invitation: to find our voice again, to find what still burns, to find the light when we wander in the dark, and to always keep seeking.
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