The band was recently compelled to cancel their European trek with Kreator and Power Trip due to coronavirus restrictions, but they’re still have big plans for this summer and fall - specifically, two legs of a massive run with Megadeth, Trivium and In Flames. Lamb of God is available for pre-order now. Vocally, Randy heard the intro and said he instantly got a throwback Sisters of Mercy type vibe from it and he took off from there.” It’s always a crazy feeling when that happens. It was one of those times where once I knew what we were trying to do, the riffs just kind of fell out of me like they were writing themselves. Me, Willie and Josh Wilbur (producer) were doing demos in the studio and the idea came up to try to mash those parts into the same tune and everything just took off. I was trying to develop those two parts as separate songs altogether and was a little bit stumped, particularly with the intro piece. Guitarist Mark Morton commented on the song’s instrumentation: “I had been sitting with the music for the intro and the post chorus for quite a while. Everyone be well, keep a cool head, take care of yourselves, and take care of EACH OTHER.” We only get one shot, so don’t waste this day. So enjoy the song and video, and then remember to step away from the screens for a bit - real life is waiting for you. The release date for the tune was set a good while ago, but the timing seems eerily prescient to me now. Music has always been there for me, raising my spirits during hard times, and it is my hope that this song’s positive message will do the same for fans of our music right now and beyond. Richmond has a strong tradition of loud music and weird costumed monsters working hand in hand to make salient points (we are the birthplace of GWAR, after all), and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. The actual monsters we used in the video are Sinisteria, a local Richmond, Virginia, haunted house/dark performance troupe I met on the street at our annual Krampus Nacht parade. I wrote the narrative music video treatment a few months ago to illustrate how warped and myopic our mental states can become when we fail to remain engaged with that reality - if all you pay attention to is catastrophe, then soon you will begin to see monsters everywhere you look. While these devices can be useful tools, and it is important to stay informed, it is equally important to remain engaged with the real, physical world we live in, not just digitally filtered representations of reality. “Months before the COVID-19 outbreak occurred, I wrote ‘Memento Mori’ as a reminder to myself to not be consumed by the omnipresent electronic harbingers of doom that surround us - cellphones, computers and television screens.
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