Rust
A few years ago, I was sitting at my job but unable to do any work. For so long I had been reading about the problems that human-caused climate change would have in the future, sometime before 2100, and it was alarming, but this was different. For some reason, it just clicked that day that everything was happening faster than the predictions, worse than the models, and everyone around me either denied this was even an issue or chose to ignore it.
That last sentiment is one I can understand. Without doubt, if you were strapped to a bomb set to explode in twenty years and you knew with certainty that it could not be removed, ignoring it could be the best step forward. But this was bigger than me. It was everyone I knew, everyone who would come after me, every cardinal in the trees, every cuttlefish in the sea- everything. No one was safe, and I could ignore that bomb all I wanted, but its ticking had drilled into my head.
I knew my music wouldn't likely change anyone's opinions, but music has always been a way for me to express my feelings. So I paced around, still at work, and made an entire song that day. The lyrics laid out everything I was feeling in a way that can only pour out of your when you're really moved by something. That song is called Anthropocene, and it is the first song you'll find on our newest album.
I immediately called Zach, the guitarist of SfG, and laid everything I was feeling on him. I told him I had so much to say and he like the idea. That call directed this entire album, which is a journey through my feelings about manmade climate change, and a journey I think everyone who really understands it has gone through, is going through, or will go through. And that album is titled Rust.
Rust as a name for the album came to me when I imagined the what the world was like post-humanity. Not the images you normally see where the greenery overtakes our complexes and buries our cars. This image was something scarier, more dire, and suggested a world that didn't recover. A world like Mars, but where the rusted relics of a dead people are all that's left to speak of our implosion.
So walk with us through our tale on Rust, releasing soon. And come back next week, where we'll take you behind the scenes for the second song on Rust.
Excerpt from Anthropocene“
Today I woke up with a nervous itch,
The next plague in the news is the newest glitch.
Water and oil are ready to switch,
But the whole wide world won't hear that pitch.
The power shuts down from winter ice,
Before the summer breaks in with record highs.
There's no change or consequence,
As the poor pay for it and the rich stay rich.”
