Grief Symposium is here to darken your day with their latest single "Descent Into Pandemonium." Equal parts bludgeoning doom and blackened misery, Grief Symposium nails down a miserable aural experience worth replaying a few times today. If you're in the mood to be gloomy, that is.
"…In The Absence Of Light has involved deliberately opening old scars, for me, and explores human vulnerability and choices," said the band.
"'Descent' in particular is about those key moments in life that are insignificant to others but so, so vital to each of us – where not doing anything is the weakest and worst of options, but all the paths laid out in front of us lead to death; whether that is the little-deaths of fears, or the obliteration of certain parts of who you are, and what you've become.
"'Descent…' is that moment of deliberately exposing wounds, ripping them open, pouring in salt, and searing with flame, if only to properly and finally begin the healing process.
"If we don't descend through the darkest parts of ourselves, how can we truly see who we have become and find the resolution to change, whatever the consequence of those decisions may ultimately be. The first step is to descend, to turn the inner eye to see the path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
...In The Absence Of Light is out January 27 and is available for pre-order here.
