Vintersea has officially entered a new chapter with the release of their track “Celestial Abscission,” which you can check out below. Earlier this month, the progressive metal band from the Pacific Northwest announced Kayla Dixon (Witch Mountain/Dress The Dead) as their new vocalist, replacing Avienne Low. The new single dropped today (October 15th), and Dixon shared her thoughts on the track:
“Abscission means to detach. Romain Rolland, in his letter to good friend Sigmund Freud, described a new discovery of his via his recent meditations-“A feeling as of something limitless, unbounded, as it were-oceanic”. This quote felt perfect to include as in interlude before the song kicks in hard.
The purpose of this song is to bring the topic of spiritual narcissism up for discussion. Recurring themes of ego and ego death (or abscission) have been ever present in my life. My aim with these lyrics is to expose and discuss the misuse of the word “ego” and to shed light on how easily this word can be thrown around and used to infiltrate the minds of the already humble, stripping away what little self-esteem they had left.
Does carrying an oceanic feeling of detachment from day to day life and an awareness of our ultimate mortality advance us as individuals and as a society at large? Or is this one cause of the apathy we see in the world? …and what does your ego-self have to say about it?”
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