Death Bells
Sydney, New South Wales’ Death Bells are prepping their upcoming album available later this year from Funeral Party (US) & Burning Rose (Australia) offering up a listen to their visceral & earth shaking wax burner “Roman Candle”. A composition that we were told was composed in the group’s early beginnings, where their newfound experiences from the rocky & trying roads of touring, reflections of both loss, love & more collide in one grand manifestation of realized realities.
Death Bells strike every big bit of brass & metallic instrument available at their disposal on “Roman Candle”, while ensuring that everything stays true to the passionate & indestructible emotive spirit of the group’s aesthetic. The track tackles the notions of fate, purpose, addiction, dependencies & more that paint our chemical world in a host of alluring audio acrylics. “Roman Candle” is cradled upon an axis point where all dissonant components are channeled into a slipstream tributary that offers a host of revelations that superlatives & adjectives can never fully qualify. The Australian group offered us the following preface on their new single:
“Roman Candles” is an unapologetic pop song, yet takes influence from the darkness of the world we live in. Lyrically the song draws parallels between substance dependency, by way of coping, and the nature of authority as a demeaning structure.
Life, like a roman candle, is expected always to reach new heights. Hindrances cause setbacks but the strength of the human spirit will always persevere. Nothing can ever be forced, because if you pick up a firework and try to change it’s direction, you will lose an arm.
