"Coming Down" is a song by American heavy metal band

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. The song was released as the fourth single from their third album, ''

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'', and their thirteenth single overall. On the week of September 1, the song ranked first on the ''Billboard'' Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart (their first-ever number one single) and fourteenth on the ''Billboard'' Rock Songs chart. The music video premiered on

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on June 12, 2012. The song won a 2012

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Rock Radio Award for Song of the Year.

Premise

This video was created by Five Finger Death Punch in an effort to prevent suicide among youth.

Music video

The video, directed by Nick Peterson, begins with clips of a young woman (played by Samantha Gill) in a bathroom placing an envelope, a pill bottle and a make-up brush on the counter. Meanwhile, a young man (played by Leland Montgomery) walks out to a kitchen with a

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in hand where an older man and woman (presumably his parents) are seated having breakfast together. The young man cocks the hammer, then puts the revolver barrel to his head and (presumably) pulls the trigger to commit

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as his parents try to stop him. After a single gunshot is heard, the song begins playing. The young woman is shown

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on her mirror, implying she attempted suicide by overdosing on pills. The video then flashes back to the events that caused the two young people to attempt suicide. The man argues with his parents and is physically

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by a gang, causing suicidal signs such as giving away possessions while the woman is

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, cyberbullied and self-harms as a result. At the end of the video, the two young adults survive the suicide attempts and thank their parents and friends, and discard their suicide notes. The screen then fades to black, with a message from the band encouraging viewers to call the

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if they’re suffering from

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Personnel

Zoltan Bathory Zoltan Bathory () (born in 1978) is a Hungarian-American musician and martial artist. He is the founder and rhythm guitarist of Las Vegas-based heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. In 2010, he won the Metal Hammer Golden God award for "Be ...

– rhythm guitar *

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– lead guitar, backing vocals (original version) *

Ivan Moody Ivan L. Moody (born Ivan Lewis Greening on January 7, 1980) is an American singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch (FFDP). He performed for several other bands including Motograter and Gho ...

– lead vocals * Chris Kael –

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, backing vocals (credited but did not perform on original version, performs on re-recorded version) *

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– drums (original version) * Andy James - guitars (re-recorded version) * Charlie Engen - drums (re-recorded version)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

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Official music video
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