INTER ARMA & MIZMOR
Inter Arma, formed in 2006, faced many a challenge while creating their sixth album, New Heaven. From visa issues and member turmoil to near-fatal accidents, the band's journey has been tumultuous. However, perseverance colors the music with dense layers of dissonance interspersed with moments of light. And New Heaven, unlike their lengthy back catalog, clocks in at a mere 42 minutes, balancing complexity and a new found urgency reflective of the upheaval they've found themselves in.
Exploring war, addiction, and social apathy through the lyrics, New Heaven doesn't offer false optimism. This is a record about enduring brambles and curses and lasting long enough to make something profound, honest, and even affirming about it all every now and again—exactly as Inter Arma has on New Heaven.
Mizmor, is a one-man heavy music exploration that began in 2012 as a way of processing the mental and spiritual anguish I, A.L.N., underwent through my loss of faith in Christianity. Over the course of the proceeding decade, I slowly changed from struggling Christian, to agnostic, and finally to atheist. During this evolution I used Mizmor, which means “psalm,” “prayer,” or “melody” in Hebrew, as a form of therapy. The songs literally started as prayers to God, grappling with doubt and depression, much like some of the darker chapters of the book of Psalms. After some time the songs became more existential - primal and innate musings about cause, purpose, self, and god (in a more universal sense). Eventually Mizmor became about the absence of god and the healing I’ve experienced through accepting this. Nowadays my songs are about consciousness, ideas, mankind, and the future to name a few things (and still depression and anxiety, which I continue to battle). Mizmor will always be about following the most reasonable path given the current evidence and processing grief through creating and sharing art so that others may be helped with similar struggles.
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