There is a thing that happens when depression sets in. It feels like the weight of the world is crushing all will to move or function. The deafening distortion of reality obscures all familiar pathways to success. Momentum is impossible to define yet it’s so palpable that the feeling is overwhelming. When there is no movement, death is the only way forward. Yet, the primary instinct is survival. This is the unsolvable paradox that we must endure on a daily basis.
On “Primary Instinct’, Human Trophy’s second album of atmospheric, metal tinged death rock, these ideas put to music paint a relentlessly cold and antisocial portrait of human failure and the mystical propensity for violence. - Iron Lung