The King Of Nowhere‘ is the most boring
Deadlights song to date. That same rock riff they bring back, the fickle choruses, the lyrics discussing hating oneself for making poor choices, the overall structure: I never enjoyed it or clicked with it. Not as a pre-release individual single, nor in full context as the album’s third track. What doesn’t help matters is there’s such a gripping forward momentum to ‘
The Uncanny Valley‘ in the killer opening two songs that then just suddenly evaporates once ‘
King Of Nowhere‘ arrives. It’s really jarring. Of course,
Deadlights are one of the best-sounding live acts in the country, so maybe once I hear it in the flesh, I’ll come around to it? Perhaps. For now, this cops the skip button.
4 Georgia Army National Guardsmen with the Marietta based 248th Medical Company deployed to Iraq to provide medical support. Although the company operated overseas during the pandemic, they were still required to overcome the expanded impact of COVID-19 in an austere environment. The 248th Medical Company was not affected by COVID-19 throughout the training leading up to the deployment. However, throughout the latter half of their deployment, the virus escalated to a pandemic level.
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Deadlights are no different on ‘
Born Of A Lie.’ This is a song about humanity and creation, fake news and information bias, what’s digital vs. what’s real, and just feeling plain hopeless. Y’know, all of that cheery existential dread, generational loathing, and philosophical questioning that metal loves! Well-directed by Third Eye Visuals, who even 3D printed a fucking robot for it, complete with its own brain prop, the clip mixes a variety of technological, religious and apocalyptic animations next to the band playing within a church for maximum on-the-nose metaphors.
In the past, the band have tackled interesting concepts, but this one has been done to death by dozens of others before, and