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Run is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Awolnation, released on March 17, 2015 through Red Bull Records.

The album was announced on January 25, 2015 along with a music video of their new song "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)". The album, unlike its predecessor Megalithic Symphony, is darker and ultimately diverse.

In an interview with MTV News on May 11, 2012, Aaron Bruno commented on the follow-up to Megalithic Symphony, "I think the next record will be a little more raw, and a little more aggro, and a little stranger, but still have the nursery-rhyme feel of melody, because that's the only way I know how to write. [...] I've always been the underdog my whole life, and the guys in my band, we all came up in the same situation, so this success is totally new and foreign for us, so I want to maintain the hunger of being the underdog and never feel complacent with the success and always want to reach more ears. Not necessarily to make money, but because I feel the music's important." Red Bull Records announced that a new album would be released in 2014 but this did not eventuate. A new song entitled "KOOKSEVERYWHERE!!!" was played at the Rock am Ring festival. Aaron worked on new material from mid-2013 until the end of 2014. After months of touring, Aaron announced in an interview at Voodoo Music Experience 2014 that the new album would be released mid-March 2015. After various weeks of teasing new material on the official Facebook page of the band, they officially released the first single from Run, "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)". The album is also the first to feature Isaac Carpenter on drums, replacing former drummer, Hayden Scott.

In a retrospective interview in May 2016, Aaron described Run as a tricky record to make because it was the first time he was actually giving something back to the longtime fans of a band he had been a part of, specifically AWOLNATION, something he had never done before with his other bands. Compared to "Run", Bruno describes his earlier record "Megalithic Symphony" as crazy, very ambitious and something he has been wanting to do for a long time. He even mentions that he believed no one would listen to it. Aaron describes the creation of "Run" as an immense pressure to make something as equally passionate as "Megalithic Symphony", and something the diehard fans wouldn't be let down by. "Looking back now, it has been a year, and this record has been very important to a lot of people, so i'm satisfied." Aaron also mentions that its nice to have more songs he can pull from to make a setlist for live shows. "During the first record's tour cycle, we started playing headlining shows early on and i didn't know if we had enough material to fill the hour and 15 minute slot, but now we do and we can switch it up."

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