Monument Of A Memory released a single that turned addiction into a sound that listeners can resonate to. “HIT THE FLOOR” reflects on the cycle that the vocalist; Dylan experienced when addicted to alcohol and drugs. The single doesn’t romanticize addiction, but yet expresses that it’s a dark force that leaves you spiraling with guilt and not knowing if there’s an escape. The vocals in the single is filled with fragility and desperation, but at the same time it allows the listener to fully understand how much addiction can truly change a person.

“HIT THE FLOOR” was the first song we wrote when we got back to the studio, and it was written two months after I had become freshly sober. I spent a lot of time leading up to the studio self reflecting on all the destruction that drugs and alcohol had caused in my life. I had to spend time with myself without the ability to just numb it and make it go away. I was facing myself for the first time in my entire life. So when we went to write this song I knew that lyrically I wanted to write something triumphant and powerful, yet reflective on the whirlwind that my life had become during the years of active addiction. It was the first time I ever admitted publicly and in my music that I was an addict and something about that felt liberating, because I wasn’t trying to hide my struggles with it anymore. The song is really just a journey of my perspective on who I was then and my headspace while I was navigating that dark period of my life.” – Dylan Newhouse