Like Moths To Flames – The Cycles Of Trying To Cope CD Kritik

Track By Track der Band in englischer Sprache:

1. Angels Weep
   Tells the story of a man who finds himself a place in a dense dark forest..
   Something about it resembles Heaven, but more or less has become a place where God and Angels collectively go to die. A place that’s desolate and empty. Hopeless and lacks any promise of getting better.
2. Paradigm Trigger
   This song is about being stuck in a levitative state of sleep paralysis. Inducing a lot of feelings of anxiety, it’s meant to represent the feeling of being stuck. Desperately wanting to run from everything you’re falling into but somehow you always en d up back in the same place.
3. Over the Garden Wall
   This song has a lot of parallels with the body representing a home. Trying to hide away from everything that the outside world has to offer. Coming to terms that this is just the way that it is. Overgrown and eroded.
4. Gone Without A Trace
   Being haunted by the ghost of someone that you don’t want to lose, even though they’re already gone. Reliving it over and over again because the memories are the only thing left to hold onto.
5. Dissociative Being
   Blood leaves a stain that’s often hard to remove. Much like the scars that people leave when they’re destructive with their life. This song is about someone who’s destroyed everything they had left. Being so parasytic with their life that it bleeds into the lives of others.
6. The Shepherd’s Crown
   Religion has left me feeling more hopeless than hopeful. While I feel it’s important to have faith, I think blindly following something without question can be fairly dangerous.
7. To Know is to Die
   Visions of what happened before the world. Before struggle and pain. Asking whoever created us to find compromise so that we can actually have a chance to survive.
8. Kintsugi
   When things go wrong, I think we are left to pick up the pieces and forced to choose which piece to leave with. If it’s not possible to leave with everything the way it was before it broke, how do you know what piece to hold onto?
9. Everything That Once Held It Together
   If life was a thread that was being pulled at both ends, how much tension before it breaks. Represents the anxiety and tension we feel on a daily basis. The repetition of going through the motions just to exist.
10. The Depths I Roam
    I think we all have a place that we go when we feel uneasy and on the edge. Thinking too much. Dragging yourself through the depths for the sake of feeling something.
11. What Do We See When We Leave This Place?
    A never ending void. Sometimes the pain and hurt we go through feels like its passed down through our blood. Almost feels ritualistic and routine. This is the song that features the album title and encapsulates a lot of what the record is about. Coping through the emotions of life and the many cycles we go through while doing so.