"Fallout" is a song by Australian rapper

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featuring British rock band

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. Produced by

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and Evil Twin and written by Harry Michael,

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, Hvdes and

, the song interpolates the hook of HVDES's earlier song of the same title. It was released on 1 April 2022 through

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Background

On 29 March 2022,

shared a cryptic post onto their

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account with the caption "This is the Fallout" while the band were jamming to a snippet of the song in the teaser. Masked Wolf teased on his

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page with a glitchy video that would reveal that he would be collaborating with Bring Me the Horizon on a new song called "Fallout" that would be slated to release on 1 April 2022.

Composition

"Fallout" has been described as a

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and a

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song by critics. It runs for three minutes and 14 seconds. Speaking to ''

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'' about the collaboration, Masked Wolf explained:

Music video

The music video for "Fallout" was released onto

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on 11 April 2022. The video stars Masked Wolf who walks into a room filled with computers. On one of the monitors, Bring Me Horizon's frontman

Oli Sykes Oliver Scott Sykes (born 20 November 1986) is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Bring Me the Horizon. He also founded the apparel company Drop Dead Clothing, and created a graphic novel. Early l ...

appears and the two perform the song together.

Personnel

Credits adapted from

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. Musicians * Harry Michael – lead vocals, composer *

– featured vocals, composer Additional personnel *

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, composer * Evil Twin – producer * Zack Cervini – mixer * Klaus Hill –

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– composer * Hvdes – composer

Charts

References

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