Track By Tracks: Ethereal Void - Gods Of A Dead World (2023)

The album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

Gods of a Dead World is a dark and heavy exploration of war, suffering, and demise.

Track by Track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY):

1. Overture to Annhiliation:

We've never done an abbreviated album intro for Ethereal Void, so I wanted to experiment with how it would work in the flow of the album. It works great for building tension and setting up the context of the album.

2. The Voiceless:

Conceptually, this song is about a mass exodus of people from another realm, silently venturing onward to an unfathomable destination.

3. Seeds of Hatred:

This song is about a geographic area that's cursed to be forever torn by war. Era after era, it sees bloodshed and turbulence.

4. The Art of Ruination:

Similarly, this track is about the futility of war, and how there's always someone else ready to cut you down after you've fought your populace to death.

5. Psychosomatic Suicide:

This song departs from the theme, and offers a more traditional death metal vision of a mind betraying the body and causing a suicide.

6. Decay:

This is a clean instrumental interlude pushing into the real of post-tonal. it offers a break from the relentlessness of the album, and allowed us to explore a style of melodic writing rarely glimpsed.

7. Return to the Void:

This is a classic EV theme; worship of entropy, and embracing the end of all things.

8. The Brown Stone Spire:

This song is unabashedly about a minor gag from a show called Welcome to Night Vale.

9. Gods of a Dead World:

The planet is dead, life is forsaken, and the ones responsible for the downfall of humanity are left alone in the barren wasteland that is the world.