Most bands would be slowing down 25 years into their career, if they were still around at all, but not French veterans Bliss of Flesh. The band, who formed in 1999 before changing their name in 2000, are readying their fifth album, Metempsychosis, for release early next month. To preview the new release, Bliss of Flesh share new song “If Only,” a midpoint track on the new album.
Like many of their French contemporaries, Bliss of Flesh use Metempsychosis to explore a variety of heady topics: the physical effects of grief and loss, as well as metempsychosis, or supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species.
“‘If Only’ expresses regret and the onset of the depressive phase of grief,” Bliss of Flesh tell Decibel. “The individual finds themselves face to face with themselves and with the old demons that have consumed them since the beginning of their existence. A profound invasion, a recognition of a life dominated by solitude. A bitter taste persists, one that seeks to abhor this existence in order to continue one’s journey. A taste of helplessness and a desire to access death as the sole and inexorable portal to metempsychosis. A repression of this life for never having truly lived it. If only.”
You can dig into the new song below and head to Bandcamp to hear the other previously released song, as well as pre-order the album.
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