De Amerikaanse metalcore/hardcore band Dying Wish heeft een nieuwe single uitgebracht: “I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)”. De track verschijnt voorafgaand aan hun tour als support van Spiritbox in Noord-Amerika en laat opnieuw hun rauwe, emotionele sound horen. De bijbehorende videoclip is nu te bekijken.
Frontvrouw Emma Boster zegt het volgende over de track:
‘I Brought You My Soul…’ is written about being one of many affected by the state of the world we are living in. Constantly witnessing the brutality and injustices has taken a toll on our collective mental health. [The lyric] ‘I am miserable yet I am sane’ references that being impacted by these tragedies happening in Gaza and on our own American soil in fact makes us normal. I fear that one day we will become numb to the events as they become more violent because we are so conditioned to living with it every day.
Gitarist Pedro Carrillo voegt eraan toe:
‘I’m fucking miserable yet I am sane,’ with everything Dying Wish has ever done, we’ve tried to push ourselves and be as honest with ourselves as we can. Inauthenticity is the mind killer. Especially in this day and age, everyone is putting up a front. Everyone is faking it. Nobody actually believes in the words they say or spew online. The world is crumbling, foreign affairs [issues] are at an all-time high, and the bare minimum to be able to survive in this world is getting harder and harder to reach.”
I am miserable but my family holds me together. Five different walks of life coming together in this exhausting cesspool. This video is my love letter to them and to everyone who has seen us at our highest and at our lowest. Working with Eric Richter was an incredible experience. Being able to hone in the feelings and ideas of what I see when I look at my band, how I look at our journey, and what I want to represent.
He pushed us to never settle, asking, ‘Is this actually real to you? Do you feel this in your veins?’ These are the questions that would keep me up at night trying to write this video out. I think this is the most authentic version of Dying Wish to date. We are devoted to each other through everything that life puts in front of us.
