Senses Fail have released a new single titled “Death By Water” featuring Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills. This is the first new material from the post-hardcore band since If There Is Light, It Will Find You back in 2018. The official video for the new track can be viewed below.
When discussing the release, Buddy Nielsen comments “The song is named after a section of the poem Wasteland by T.S. Elliot and pulls references from the section. Personally, it is about the struggle of entering the dark night of the soul with regard to becoming a father. In many traditions, there is anecdote and mythology pertaining to the journey of ego death or death and rebirth of a certain time in one’s life.
He continued “When you become a parent your single self dies and you become eternally linked to life, there is a letting go of the person you once were to become a parent. There was a level of loss I felt having to let go of who I was previously and step into a role that I didn’t feel fully comfortable in.
“I was blindly jumping into the unknown and this is what this song talks about. Death by water can have the inverse motif of birth and cleansing. When someone is baptized in Christianity they are reborn in the eye of God. I use the theme of death by water as a rebirth in the eye of “God”; God being my child, and me being reborn as their parent.”
Expanding on the track’s imagery, Nielsen adds “This song represents the descent into the underworld where I am to meet with the soul of my departed grandmother. The entrance into the underworld is always marked by a crossing of water or submersion into water and into a lower plane of existence. ‘Death By Water’ is specifically about the journey of my soul through the plane of existence into the underworld.”
Expected in 2022, Senses Fails are working on a double record titled What The Thunder Said, Hell Is In Your Head. On Twitter, the band stated. “It is a concept record split into two stories. One half the record is in minor the other is in major. Half the record is inspired by TS Elliott’s “Wasteland” the other is based on Walt Whitman’s “To Think of Time””.
“Death By Water” is out now via Pure Noise Records and can be streamed here. For more news on Senses Fail and post-hardcore, keep it loaded on Boolin Tunes.