Face Yourself guide us track by track through their latest EP ‘Fury’, out now via Sumerian Records.
“A month after releasing Martyr, we were back in the studio with Joey Sturgis to record ‘Fury’.
For this record we tried to continue exploring our identity as musicians, and we wanted to add some death metal elements and well composed melodic elements as well.
The reason we decided to call it ‘Fury’ is because we wanted that record to be some kind of following story to ‘Martyr’.
‘Martyr’ is a lot about the pain and trying to survive through it; ‘Fury’ is more about the anger that comes after.”
Wet Dreams
“Dave and Eric worked together to work on a more death metal sound for this specific track. When I started writing the lyrics, I was inspired by my stay at the hospital from when I was fifteen. I stayed there for a couple of months, and I remember being heavily medicated for depression and anxiety. There were locks on the windows, it was January/February and it was raining. I remember having a fixation about the rain and trying to remember what the rain felt like and smelled like. Watching the rain outside and being unable to open the windows felt as if the outside world was so close but also not something I could be a part of. It felt like a dream to try to imagine myself outside and happy again. Once the instrumental was done, Dave and I met up to write the vocal patterns for it and adding some lyric changes to it.”
Fractures
“The songwriting for that song happened a little bit differently. Eric suggested that I send the texts I wrote and that he would try to write instrumentals from whatever my words inspired him. When I sent the ‘Fractures’ lyrics, Eric and Dave came up with the instrumental for ‘Wet Dreams’. I ended up writing a different story for ‘Wet Dreams’, and asked to pair ‘Fractures’ with a more hardcore demo.
‘Fractures’ is about a feeling that I’ve had for a long time as a young woman. The constant pressure of beauty standards through social media, advertisement etc. It’s really hard to witness so many people hating themselves because of looks that are just unachievable. I think we are witnessing more men being victims of this as well.”
Carousel Of Violence
“‘Carousel Of Violence’ is a really sad song that I think would speak to a lot of people today. With wars, genocides, climate change, some communities slowly losing their rights and politics failing their people, it feels like a better world for everyone is a hopeless dream. Corey wrote the original instrumental and Dave added some orchestral elements to it. Dave is a really talented musician and songwriter and we wanted to have him express his musicianship more into our new music.”
Catacombs
“Eric wrote ‘Catacombs’ almost two years ago, and Dave added a lot of elements to it including this acoustic guitar part and the following guitar solo. ‘Catacombs’ is a track that we have written a while back now and we were never sure on how we would release it. It is definitely different from what we do usually and it took a while to decide if that would be just a single or a part of a collection. When ‘Fury’ slowly came to life, it felt like ‘Catacombs’ belonged here. When I wrote the lyrics, I was visiting the Paris catacombs with my husband. It was written everywhere to respect the bones by not touching them and to not use flash photography but a lot of tourists still did that. I remember how my husband and I were really shocked at how people were not respecting these human remains. So, I imagined the spirits of the catacombs waking up and fighting back. The first line of the song was actually Dan’s idea, ‘buried under a pile of rotting flesh’.”
Ov Agony
“‘Ov Agony’ was meant to be on ‘Martyr’ originally, but when it came to choose the collection of songs for it, we let our producer guide us. Fun fact about it, the outro at the very end of ‘Ov Agony’ was written by Joey Sturgis. Dave tried to write a slower song that would be really heavy on emotions. When I wrote the lyrics, I was thinking of a suicide letter that I wrote for my parents during my hospitalisation but that I ended up never giving them. I met someone during this time that told me to write down all my darkest thoughts and then either destroy the paper or get rid off it. I have so much distance with this part of my life now since I was so young when this happened. I’ve been really happy lately and I think it helps to be able to look back on that past pain without having to cary it anymore.”
