The world first caught a glimpse of Armin van Buuren and Jon Bon Jovi’s “Hold the Religion” practically a yr in the past at Ultra Music Festival, when the legendary rocker himself stormed the stage to debut the monitor alongside van Buuren. Now, nearly a yr later, the full-throttle collaboration has arrived.
Launched by way of Armada Music, the monitor marks each an sudden collision of two music titans and a testomony to each of their legacies. Armin van Buuren approached the undertaking with reverence, realizing the load of what he was about to reimagine.
“Remodeling this monitor was an unbelievable honor by itself, however having Jon Bon Jovi be part of me on stage at Extremely was a once-in-a-lifetime second,” he mentioned in a press launch shared with EDM.com. “Rock music has at all times impressed me, and I’ve been a Bon Jovi fan for ages, so this was really particular.”
The unique “Hold the Religion,” a defiant rallying cry launched in 1992, was constructed on towering guitar riffs and Bon Jovi’s signature blue-collar grit. But it surely transforms in van Buuren’s arms, glowing with an incandescent trance undercurrent.
The trance icon himself isn’t any stranger to bop music reinventing a few of rock’s most storied classics—his 2019 remix of Van Halen’s “Leap” beforehand proved that guitar-driven classics might thrive beneath the load of festival-grade synths, and his newest isn’t any exception.
Hearken to Armin van Buuren and Bon Jovi’s “Hold the Religion” beneath and discover the brand new single on streaming platforms here.
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