Like Moths To Flames Share ‘Dissociative Being’ Visualizer & New Album ‘The Cycles Of Trying To Cope’ Arrives May 10
U.S. metalcore act Like Moths To Flames previously announced their new album The Cycles Of Trying To Cope. It arrives on May 10 via UNFD.
Now, the band has dropped the visualizer for Dissociative Being.
“Blood leaves a stain that’s often hard to remove, much like the scars that people leave when they’re destructive with their life,” the band says. “This song is about someone who’s destroyed everything they had left and being so parasitic with their life that it bleeds into the lives of others.” Each single that the band has released is related to a coping “cycle” and associated word. Dissociative Being is part of “Cycle Three: Disassociate.”
“When it breaks, what piece am I left with?,” ponders frontman Chris Roetter over the rousing, palms-to-the-sky outro of Kintsugi, an emotional thunderclap of a song that forms somewhat of a centrepiece to Like Moths To Flames’ career re-defining sixth album, The Cycles Of Trying To Cope. Whilst the anthemic track’s title pays homage to the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, for Roetter and his bandmates (guitarists Zach Pishney and Cody Cavanaugh, and drummer Roman Garcia), the notion of Kintsugi comes loaded with the profound human experience of seeking to find light in the dark, to birth good from bad — indeed, the cycles of trying to cope: “The record encapsulates the varying emotions we go through when trying to grow through life,” says Roetter. “Over the last few years, I’ve really tried to harness my emotions as a catalyst to get through whatever I was facing at the time. I think we all have our own unique ways to cope — these are mine. Just being able to write about this stuff and put it out into the world makes it feel like I’m not so alone.”
Photo Credit: Chris Klumpp
Segmented into four chapters, dubbed LIMBO, FRACTURE, DISSOCIATE, and MELANCHOLIA, The Cycles Of Trying To Cope album plays as an intense exploration of the Like Moths musical arsenal, straddling the ugly and the beautiful in equal measure, whilst Roetter’s raw introspection pierces the heart of every vicious breakdown or soaring chorus with cathartic power. Though not originally designed to be a concept album, Roetter’s reflections on these diverse, complimentary, and contrasting facets of the band’s latest opus revealed common threads which led the singer even deeper into his internal landscape; exploring the ways in which differing stages and aspects of the record were connected evoked in Roetter thoughts of the terraces in Dante’s Purgatory and the “cycles” were given shape.
“A big focal point for Moths has always been writing about things I’m actively going through,” Roetter details. “But when I realized that each song on the new album covers a unique approach I’ve had to a specific emotion, it felt like we needed something that could escort listeners through the record. It definitely helps it all feel cohesive and complete; Sometimes an album can just feel like a collection of songs, but I think this is more an experience to the band — I hope that people are able to find some solace in knowing someone else out there is dealing with these things too.”
DISSOCIATIVE BEING – OUT NOW
https://lmtf.lnk.to/TCOTTC
THE CYCLES OF TRYING TO COPE – OUT MAY 10
https://lmtf.lnk.to/TCOTTC
LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES ARE:
Chris Roetter – Vocals | Zach Pishney – Guitar
Roman Garcia – Drums | Cody Cavanaugh – Guitar
THE CYCLES OF TRYING TO COPE TRACK LISTING:
01. Angels Weep
02. Paradigm Trigger
03. Over The Garden Wall
04. Gone Without A Trace
05. Dissociative Being
06. The Shepherd’s Crown
07. To Know Is To Die
08. Kintsugi
09. Everything That Once Held It Together
10. The Depths I Roam
11. What Do We See When We Leave This Place?
