Soundgarden’s 1996 hit “Burden In My Hand” featured prominently through the ending and credit to the seventh and ultimate episode of the second season of HBO’s hit post-apocalyptic drama TV sequence The Final Of Us which aired final evening, Could 25.
The tune featured on the finish of the extremely dramatic sequence finale, an episode titled “Convergence,” which follows Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Dina’s (Isabela Merced) third day in Seattle to kill Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). They’re joined by Jesse (Younger Mazino), who seeks to regroup with Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and return residence.
Final evening’s episode was written by Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross, and Craig Mazin, and directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado. Druckmann and Mazin co-created the tv sequence, whereas Druckmann co-directed The Final of Us Half II (2020), the online game on which the second season relies, and co-wrote it with Gross.
First launched in 1996, “Burden In My Hand” was the second single from Seattle grunge stars Soundgarden’s fifth album Down On The Upside. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, the tune’s lyrical content material isn’t dissimilar to a few of the content material of The Final Of Us because it issues a person who murders a girl he’s in a relationship with and leaves her within the desert, not with out remorse.
On launch, “Burden in My Hand” appeared on Billboard journal’s Scorching 100 Airplay chart, reaching the highest 40. It additionally grew to become probably the most profitable tune from Down on the Upside on the American rock charts, topping the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for five weeks and peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard Trendy Rock Tracks chart.
The Final Of Us has change into synonymous with its utilization of memorable rock songs all through the sequence. The second sequence has already used Nirvana’s “You Know You’re Right” and Pearl Jam’s “Future Days” throughout particularly pivotal scenes. “Future Days” has a prolonged affiliation with The Final Of Us because it options prominently within the 2020 sequel to the 2013 PlayStation recreation the TV present relies on.
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