LOS ANGELES, CA- If Holy Wars’ new single “I Feel Everything” feels bigger, louder, and more emotionally raw than anything they’ve released before—it’s because it is.
It’s not just the booming guitars or the orchestral undercurrent that elevates this track to another level (though both are absolutely gripping). It’s the spiritual weight behind it. It’s frontwoman Kat Leon, peeling back the emotional armor she’s carried for over a decade, and daring herself—and us—to feel again.
“Reveal myself / tear off the skin / I’m digging them out / these skeletons / I buried I buried,” she sings in the opening lines, pulling us straight into her reckoning. This is not metaphorical angst—it’s excavation. “I Feel Everything” is a personal upheaval, and you hear every ounce of it in Leon’s delivery.
Written after the loss of her sister in 2024, the song circles back to the same emotional ground that birthed Holy Wars in the first place. Their 2017 debut single “I Can’t Feel a Thing” explored the emotional numbness following the death of Leon’s parents. But “I Feel Everything” is what happens when the numbness finally gives way. Of the song, Kat say:
“‘I Feel Everything,’ lyrically, is about how dissociation and remaining numb for so many years since my parents’ passing could only heal so much. With the loss of my sister this past year, every pain and every emotion eventually rose to the surface.”
The lyrics match that vulnerability step-for-step. “Burning every cut / dulling every touch / ‘cause I feel everything,” Leon sings in a voice that trembles and rages all at once. There’s a physicality to her pain—one that’s matched beat-for-beat by Nick Perez’s punishing guitar work and the unexpected addition of cinematic strings that give the track its sweeping grandeur.
It’s a move that feels fresh but intentional. “We want to bring the chills factor back into our music,” Perez says. And it works. From the breakdowns to the builds, “I Feel Everything” is laced with emotional and sonic tension. Leon herself adds, “As a band, we have been reflecting on where we are at in our lives and the legacy we want to leave behind… we can now take these themes to a broader place and show the journey of where we are at today and ultimately, the journey of life after death.”
The band isn’t just chasing catharsis, though—they’re chasing connection. As Leon puts it, the track is “an anthem for a generation feeling powerless… overwhelmed by the state of the world, whether that be emotional exhaustion from political turmoil, environmental destruction and societal unrest.”
Yet for all its darkness, “I Feel Everything” doesn’t feel hopeless. “This song still holds a sense of hope and empowerment for anyone who no longer wants to escape and to encourage you to feel and embrace those emotions again,” Perez insists. And he’s right. There’s triumph in this pain—just listen to the final refrain as Leon repeats, “It all feels different now / I feel everything.”
Following a high-profile year that included tours with Evanescence and The Warning, festival slots at Rocklahoma and Knotfest, and the release of their Cult Classic EP, “I Feel Everything” positions Holy Wars as a band stepping confidently into their next chapter. In June, they’ll bring this new fire across the Atlantic with festival dates at Rock am Ring, Rock for People, and Download UK, alongside club dates with Kittie.
If this is the first page of their 2025 story, we’re already bracing for the rest. With “I Feel Everything,” Holy Wars prove they’re not just evolving—they’re ascending.
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