The Moth - Dust
This is the first single and video taken from THE MOTH's upcoming fourth album "Frost", released on 22 September 2023.
Album pre-orders are available here: https://shop.mainstreamrecords.de/product/eom107
Video by Niklas Krohn, Cruel Visions
THE MOTH have honed their no-nonsense approach to SludgeMetalDoom on numerous tours and gigs. Their songs are virtually void of frills, instead opting to turn out hammer heavy drums and riff ready rock ’n’ roll – as brutal as it is bewitching. Catchy hooklines get stuck in the listener’s heart and mind like a dislodged meat hook, explaining why the band calls their style doom-sludge pop.
Bass player and singer Cecile Ash reveals the touching story behind the single "Dust" in her own words:
Two years ago I had breast cancer. During that time I discovered the writer Anita Moorjani and her own approach to cancer. After a near-death experience her tumor started regressing and she came out with a super positive, encouraging and empowering attitude. One of the essences of her attitude is rewriting the meaning of the word remission, used to describe the 5-10 years phase after a treatment when signs and symptoms of cancer seem to be fading or completely going away - before doctors would use the word cure. Moorjani reinterprets and sees it as abbreviation for "Remember your Mission" postulating a pledge for asking yourself: What is my mission, what am I here for? First and foremost, she says, it's about just being yourself. "Dust" is about death holding the sword of Damocles of cancer recurrence over me. It says dagger instead of sword in the song simply because it did fit better with the music. It's about remembering the mission of being yourself, which seems to be a strong force against a possible conquest and for a serious bye-bye to the ongoing threat.
Deutsche Version:
"Vor zwei Jahren hatte ich Brustkrebs. In der Zeit bin ich auf Anita Moorjani gestoßen. Die hatte selbst Krebs, im Endstadium, hatte dann eine Nahtoderfahrung, ist aber zurückgekommen und hat nun eine super positive, ermutigende und „empowernde“ Einstellung. Zum Beispiel sagt sie, dass man das Wort Remission (vorübergehende oder dauernde Abschwächung der Symptome bei chronischen Erkrankungen, ohne dass eine Heilung erreicht wird) wie Ärzte die 5 bis 10 Jahre nach der Behandlung bezeichnen, nicht akzeptieren soll, bzw. für sich umdeuten soll. Man soll die Phase lieber als die der „Remember your Mission“ sehen. Aus Remission wird also Remember your mission. Dass man sich also überlegt: was ist meine Mission, wofür bin ich hier? In allererster Linie, sagt sie, geht es darum einfach nur voll und ganz man selbst zu sein.
Also geht es in dem Text um den Tod der das Damokles-Schwert (hier Dagger=Dolch nicht Schwert, klang besser), dass der Krebs wiederkommen könnte, über einen hält. Und darum, dass er eine Botschaft hat, dass dies eine Chance ist, sich an seine Mission zu erinnern, die in erster Linie ist, voll und ganz man selbst zu sein. Damit er sich dann verkrümeln kann."
(Cecile Ash)
Lyrics:
All the dust that's in the air
All the dust that's in the air
settles down and goes nowhere
All the dust that's in the air
You hold the dagger above my head
Our eyes lock and you ask me to take care
Remember your mission you plead,
and I finally see, another chance at this,
to just be me.
All the dust that's in the air
All the dust that's in the air
settles down and goes nowhere
All the dust that's in the air
You hold the dagger above my head
Our eyes lock and you ask me to take care
Remember your mission you plead,
and I finally see, another chance at this,
to just be me.
All the dust that's in the air
All the dust that's in the air
settles down and goes nowhere
All the dust that's in the air
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