After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell. Today, we’re premiering the video for ‘Pendular | Amidst the Hysterics of Gloom,’ the first single from the project’s upcoming and final full-length, arriving December 26, 2025, via Rebel Pyro Musick.
Written in the aftermath of a close friend’s suicide, ‘Pendular’ is less a memorial than a recoil. Instead of leaning on the well-worn language of healing and closure, Wyatt Sharp drags the listener into the jagged, contradictory mess that loss actually leaves behind: grief that curdles into anger, empathy that collapses into resentment, and the intrusive, inappropriate humor that slips in when you’re too numb to feel anything cleanly.
The track rejects every romantic myth ever pinned to tragedy. There’s no glow, no halo, no “too bright for this world” eulogy here—just the bitterness and bewilderment left in a shadow shaped like someone who isn’t coming back.
Wyatt explains the emotional core of the single:
“Pendular | Amidst the Hysterics of Gloom’ was written after losing a close friend to suicide. It’s about the recoil that follows—the violent swing between grief, anger, and the dark humor that intrudes when you’ve run out of ways to process it. It’s not meant to offer comfort or closure. I just did my best to capture the motions.”
“The song sits in the space where mourning stops being poetic and becomes something far less cathartic—where you start to resent the clichés of healing and the people who repeat them. It’s a study of what loss does to the ones who are left behind: how we oscillate between empathy and rage, and how laughter slips in as a mockery to our coping mechanisms.”
“There’s no romanticism in this track. It’s not about someone who ‘burned too bright for this world.’ It’s about what’s left in their shadows—the confusion, the bitterness, and the consequential apathy towards someone I used to deeply care for.”
‘Pendular’ marks the beginning of the end for Sidian—an unflinching, unsentimental final chapter from a project defined by its willingness to stare directly into the places most artists try to blur.
Sidian’s debut full-length will see a limited edition CD release on December 26 via Rebel Pyro Musick. In the meantime, revisit the project’s 2019 EP Carry My Bones, or explore earlier pre-hiatus material, including the 2012 track ‘Eternal Bloom of Lamenting Dawn,’ featuring Testament/Arkaik drummer Alex Bent.
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