Memories Will Vanish

Privileged

From the third studio album out October 14th via Wet Desert.

Lucy Gray

From the third studio album 'Privileged' out October 14th via Wet Desert.

In Front Of Others

Death On Wheels

Throughout the album we get to explore this kind of isolated character more so, where he expresses his bitter emotions and pity for humanity. A misanthrope who is outside the common society and sometimes with a sense of jealousy tries to reach out towards it. The character often finds himself hopelessly in love with a female figure, or in hateful envy and with a burning desire to destroy or degrade the female figure as a reaction to this.

The overall theme of the album thus deals with escapism and exclusion from society. An escapism that can also unfold in abuse of substances. Hence the inspiration for the song “A Moment of Bliss”, Westergaard explains:

“The song’s lyric side has two themes; a cross-over of a state of deep meditation, seeking an inner peace, and a state of escape through heroin abuse, which can give the same sense of inner peace, but which eventually may lead to death. The title of the album Moments of Bliss, therefore also has an embedded ambiguity; a mystery that can also be reflected in the unfathomable smile of the misanthrope. The title is very much self-ironic i think”.

Black Seaweed

The man in black fled across the dessert, and the gunslinger followed. With those words, Stephen King begins his Magnum Opus, The Dark Tower. But the phrase might as well be a graphical, description of the folk-noir project Dune Messiah (the creative outlet of songwriter Magnus Westergaard). Hailing from Copenhagen, the band shoots through its listener with visceral honesty. Dark, romantic, and personal, Dune Messiah bares itself completely, engulfing the listener in candid stories of love, loss, and mysticism told with both finesse and violence. Dune Messiah released the debut album, The Iron Oak, in March 2017. On the following tour in Europe and Denmark, the band supported the American neo-folk veterans King Dude and dark-wave duo Drab Majesty. On stage, Dune Messiah is a blazing, intense experience. Inspired by all forms of art dealing with impermanence and grief (from Leonard Cohen to Edgar Allan Poe), the band inescapably channels its demanding themes. It is both terrifying and beautiful to behold. But regardless the wickedness displayed live, the monstrosities conjured by the instruments, or the heart-breaking truths told through the lyrics, Dune Messiah’s raison d’être is to capture and project purity and sincerity. A concept that, like the man dressed in black, fleetingly runs ahead in this barren, fallacious world.

Black Seaweed

Dune Messiah

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