Welcome to Writer’s Bloc, the brand new series on Metal Injection where artists pick their favorite song from their brand new record and talk a little about it! For this installment, we’ve got Job For A Cowboy bassist Nick Schendzielos talking about the band’s comeback record Moon Healer. Check out Schendzielos‘ answers below and get Moon Healer here. You can also check out the entirety of the Writer’s Bloc series here.
What is your favorite song from Moon Healer?
“My favorite song from Moon Healer is ‘The Forever Rot’.”
Why is it your favorite?
I really like focusing on dynamics, as I believe they’re key to enhancing any particular musical trait’s emphasis. If you want your fast and technical parts to feel that way, you have to balance it out with slower tempos and simpler parts and vice versa. I think the slower tempo march that ‘TFR’ has provides great contrast and almost a release to the tension of the rest of the record.
“The whole album takes you on lots of twists and turns- it’s quite a musical rollercoaster that to me feels like it’s taking you somewhere, that there’s a destination. ‘The Forever Rot’ is that destination. It’s the culmination of the vicissitudes of the trip that Moon Healer is. The atmosphere and mood emote a sense of finality, you can feel when you’re listening to it that “this is the end”.
Why was it a single?
We chose it as the 2nd single because similarly to Sun Eater, we wanted to showcase the depth that the record has. Traditionally it’s always ‘throw a fast heavy banger at em’, and while that always tends to work, we wanted to do something different. It was the same for Sun Eater as well- when we dropped that we wanted to put Sun Of Nihility and Eating The Visions Of God out first to have people say, ‘Wait, this is Job For A Cowboy?'”
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