{"id":156,"date":"2025-11-21T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:06:37","slug":"pilgrim-by-johnston-brimstone-a-lantern-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pilgrim&#8221; by Johnston Brimstone: A Brutal Takedown of AC\/DC\u2019s Highway to Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><em>Pilgrim<\/em> bursts out as a foil\u2014still spiritual, but scorched and defiant, a direct retort to the swagger of rock\u2019s devil-may-care anthems. Instead of romanticizing the \u201croad to ruin,\u201d Johnston Brimstone drags the journey into the dirt and dares the listener to look at what it actually costs. A chatter from behind the scenes reveals that the song was written as an antithesis to AC\/DC&#8217;s 1979 hit &#8220;Highway to Hell.&#8221; The chorus hauntingly counters the rock industry\u2019s puppets and their deluded exhalations of devilish pleasure with the defiant cry: <em>\u2018I\u2019m on a narrow path!\u2019<\/em>\u201d The track grinds forward with a grim determination, part challenge, part confession. It\u2019s not a gentle wanderer\u2019s tale\u2014it\u2019s a survival march of victory of heaven over hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilgrim bursts out as a foil\u2014still spiritual, but scorched and defiant, a direct retort to the swagger of rock\u2019s devil-may-care anthems. Instead of romanticizing the \u201croad to ruin,\u201d Johnston Brimstone drags the journey into the dirt and dares the listener to look at what it actually costs. A chatter from behind the scenes reveals that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/?p=156\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Pilgrim&#8221; by Johnston Brimstone: A Brutal Takedown of AC\/DC\u2019s Highway to Hell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,15,31,32,29],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ac-dc","tag-hard-rock","tag-highway-to-hell","tag-narrow-path-to-heaven","tag-nu-metal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnstonbrimstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}