With the track 'No Passage for the Dead' Holmes expressed his skeptical attitude towards the belief in the afterlife, calling it 'a ridiculous man-made notion, initially a theory invented to profit clever individuals, aimed at weak, frightened people.' He conceded that not sharing this belief is not 'a nice thought', but on the other hand could 'make you appreciate the time you have, and live life to the fullest.' Touring There are many different interpretations, but this was mine. There was one sentence I read which was ‘Attempts to avoid looking into her eyes represent avoiding the ostensibly depressing reality that the universe is meaningless’, which made a lot of sense to me. As I looked into it, I found a lot of different metaphorical meanings that she represents. When we were kids, Medusa was the scariest character we knew. It’s not something I would use in a song and wouldn’t use as a title either. The idea was to keep it simple but dark and heavy, and I think we’ve achieved that.' Regarding the album title, he commented that '.when Gregor writes songs, he gives them working titles, so he called one song Medusa. Meanwhile, front man Nick Holmes described the record as '.definitely our heaviest album the heaviest we’ve done. He also considered it 'eight riff-laden monster tracks of sheer Northern misery'. Musical style, writing, composition Īccording to guitarist Greg Mackintosh the album is 'be slower, sludgier and more doom-filled than ever before'.

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