"Fire It Up" is the third single released by the Canadian rock band Thousand Foot Krutch from their fifth studio album Welcome to the Masquerade. It charted at No. 18 on active rock charts, No. 35 on the ''Billboard'' rock charts and No. 5 on Christianrock.net. The song is used in numerous promotions by sports teams, race drivers and in movies

Promotion

*At least five hockey teams; the Hershey Bears, Nashville Predators, New York Islanders, Rockford Icehogs and Ottawa Senators use "Fire It Up" either in pre-game warm-ups or for promo videos at their games. *The Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey team uses "Fire It Up" as one of two pregame songs to get the crowd excited. *Fire It Up is featured in the video games '' NHL 10'', ''MX vs ATV Reflex'', and is currently available as downloadable content for '' Rock Band 2''. * Fire It Up is the theme tune of the Backdraft monster truck, driven by Jeremy Slifko. *

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uses the song in one of its advertisements. *It was featured on the Versus Indycar Edmonton telecast in late July 2009. *The song is also used in the '' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' trailer. It is also featured in the 2009 film,

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. *Fox Sports used the song on an NFL Promotion. *Team Canada at the World Juniors Hockey Championship used it in a promo video before games. *

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used the song as the background music for their 2009 "Plays of the Year" segment. * The song became the official song for Super Bowl. * The song has been confirmed as a downloadable song for Rock Band. * Fire It Up has been used by the MLB

Credits

Trevor McNevan Trevor McNevan is a Canadian singer who is best known as the lead singer, songwriter and rapper of Thousand Foot Krutch, lead singer and songwriter of pop punk side project FM Static along with Steve Augustine (the third Thousand Foot Krutch dru ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Joel Bruyere - bass * Steve Augustine - drums *

Pete Stewart Pete Stewart is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer from Seattle, Washington. He is the lead singer and guitarist of Grammatrain, was the lead singer for The Accident Experiment, and is the former guitarist of Tait. Stewart released ...

- additional guitar

Music video

Trevor McNevan stated that a music video for the song, which will make it the first song from Welcome to the Masquerade to receive one, was in production. However, on May 9, 2010, he stated on his

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page that "we FKshot one a while back, but hated it... so, it's on the fence there."

Other information

* Carrie Underwood has stated that she is a fan of the band and especially "Fire It Up" and "Already Home." * The guitar solo near the end of the song is played by

Charts

References

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