A while ago, I promised to tell you more about the story behind our debut album, Metamorphosis. As some already know, I was surviving from a severe and selfdestructive depression that had drifted me deeper into abyss, into a state of mind that it had to end before I end up in a place where there's no return. In many ways, what comes to themes, The Ghosts Among Me EP paved the path for the album and originally was intended to be released earlier, but after signing a deal with Symbolic Records, we felt like that it should be done properly and we ended up recording the EP on the same sessions with the album.
Like I said, in many ways the EP paved the way for Metamorphosis. Crib45's music has always been sort of an personal diary of the time and place that I am in at each moment. The Ghosts Among Me EP paints a picture of the destructive phase of my depression. What are the stories behind them? Well, let's start from the EP, since it's a logical place to start to pave the way for the album
As I is pretty much based on the death of someone important and the lyrics in chorus are sort of a mixture of our last conversations and me putting myself into that person's shoes and blaming myself for just standing there and watching, while the other person was metaphorically bleeding. It's sort of my way to remind myself of the guilt I was feeling, for not being able to help someone in need, so that wouldn't happen again.
A Brief Comfort / Beyond The Reach of Repair bundle we had this feeling about from the day it was written, that these two tracks should be kept together, sort of like part 1 & 2, but on the separate tracks. I wish that I would have some sort of story behind this song, like there usually is, but the truth is that if I remember it like it was, these lyrics were pretty much just laid down to unravel the anxiety, pain and despair that I was going through at the time. There's no stories hidden underneath, just feeling miserable
Requiem how ever holds a story and you might have noticed when you read the lyrics, that they are written in an conversational form. In my darkest hours of depression, while constantly thinking about punching the ticket, I started to have these imaginary conversations in my head with Death as in death was a physical entity and this song's lyrics are written from a view of death, as a physical being, luring me to take the last step and telling me the exact words that I would've needed to hear, before taking that step. This song is pretty much where the deepest part of the depression gets embodied. That's why it was such a perfect way to end the EP and leave the door open for Metamorphosis.
Like I said, in many ways the EP paved the way for Metamorphosis. Crib45's music has always been sort of an personal diary of the time and place that I am in at each moment. The Ghosts Among Me EP paints a picture of the destructive phase of my depression. What are the stories behind them? Well, let's start from the EP, since it's a logical place to start to pave the way for the album
As I is pretty much based on the death of someone important and the lyrics in chorus are sort of a mixture of our last conversations and me putting myself into that person's shoes and blaming myself for just standing there and watching, while the other person was metaphorically bleeding. It's sort of my way to remind myself of the guilt I was feeling, for not being able to help someone in need, so that wouldn't happen again.
A Brief Comfort / Beyond The Reach of Repair bundle we had this feeling about from the day it was written, that these two tracks should be kept together, sort of like part 1 & 2, but on the separate tracks. I wish that I would have some sort of story behind this song, like there usually is, but the truth is that if I remember it like it was, these lyrics were pretty much just laid down to unravel the anxiety, pain and despair that I was going through at the time. There's no stories hidden underneath, just feeling miserable
Requiem how ever holds a story and you might have noticed when you read the lyrics, that they are written in an conversational form. In my darkest hours of depression, while constantly thinking about punching the ticket, I started to have these imaginary conversations in my head with Death as in death was a physical entity and this song's lyrics are written from a view of death, as a physical being, luring me to take the last step and telling me the exact words that I would've needed to hear, before taking that step. This song is pretty much where the deepest part of the depression gets embodied. That's why it was such a perfect way to end the EP and leave the door open for Metamorphosis.
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