Most bands can be slowing down 25 years into their profession, in the event that they had been nonetheless round in any respect, however not French veterans Bliss of Flesh. The band, who shaped in 1999 earlier than altering their title in 2000, are readying their fifth album, Metempsychosis, for launch early subsequent month. To preview the brand new launch, Bliss of Flesh share new tune “If Solely,” a midpoint observe on the brand new album.
Like a lot of their French contemporaries, Bliss of Flesh use Metempsychosis to discover a wide range of heady subjects: the bodily results of grief and loss, in addition to metempsychosis, or supposed transmigration at demise of the soul of a human being or animal into a brand new physique of the identical or a special species.
“‘If Solely’ expresses remorse and the onset of the depressive part of grief,” Bliss of Flesh inform Decibel. “The person finds themselves head to head with themselves and with the previous demons which have consumed them because the starting of their existence. A profound invasion, a recognition of a life dominated by solitude. A bitter style persists, one which seeks to abhor this existence as a way to proceed one’s journey. A style of helplessness and a want to entry demise as the only real and inexorable portal to metempsychosis. A repression of this life for by no means having actually lived it. If solely.”
You possibly can dig into the brand new tune beneath and head to Bandcamp to listen to the opposite beforehand launched tune, in addition to pre-order the album.
