Dying Wish Drop Scathing Response to the Daily Sh*tshow in “I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)”
Man, these first two months of 2025 sure have been one hell of a decade, amirite?! With all the devastation around the world and the quickening collapse of the American empire, shit’s been raw for a while now and I don’t know about you, but it’s taken a toll on the general population’s psyche. With an eye on their future, Portland, Oregon metalcore act Dying Wish released a frenetic new single today that channels that confusion, anger, and frustration into a 3.5 minute jam.
Titled “I Brought You My Soul (Your World Brought Me Despair)”, the track is a widening gyre of contempt that pounds you in the face with riffs and cutting vocals before occasionally breaking into a more melodic phrase or two boosted by vocalist Emma Boster’s delivery.
Speaking of the track, Boster said it’s mostly in response to the well… everything going on right now.
“‘I Brought You My Soul…’ is written about being one of many affected by the state of the world we are living in. Constantly witnessing the brutality and injustices has taken a toll on our collective mental health. [The lyric] ‘I am miserable yet I am sane’ references that being impacted by these tragedies happening in Gaza and on our own American soil in fact makes us normal. I fear that one day we will become numb to the events as they become more violent because we are so conditioned to living with it every day.”
Guitarist Pedro Carrillo, who helped co-write the music video’s treatment, said the video itself was personal for him.
“‘I’m fucking miserable yet I am sane,’ with everything Dying Wish has ever done, we’ve tried to push ourselves and be as honest with ourselves as we can. Inauthenticity is the mind killer. Especially in this day and age, everyone is putting up a front. Everyone is faking it. Nobody actually believes in the words they say or spew online. The world is crumbling, foreign affairs [issues] are at an all-time high, and the bare minimum to be able to survive in this world is getting harder and harder to reach.”
As for what comes next, Boster said their new single is a potential glimpse at what comes next for Dying Wish, since they haven’t announced details about their forthcoming third full-length album.
“This is the first step in the direction of our third LP and the goal from this album is to challenge ourselves to create something different from the first two releases. Throughout the last four years of those records we have dialed in our sound and ethos as a band. We hope that the artwork direction proves as an example that we’re innovating our style to become the most authentic version of Dying Wish.”
You can check out the song below. If you’d like to catch Dying Wish live, you can check em out on tour with Spiritbox this April and May. Dates are listed below.
DYING WISH ON TOUR:
WITH SPIRITBOX:
4/3 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom
4/4 — San Antonio, TX — Boeing Center at Tech Port
4/5 — Houston, TX — Bayou Music Center
4/7 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy
4/8 — Orlando, FL — Hard Rock Live
4/11 — Washington, DC — MGM National Harbor
4/12 — Pittsburgh, PA — UPMC Events Center
4/14 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore
4/15 — Montclair, NJ — The Wellmont Theater
4/18 — New York, NY — Hammerstein Ballroom
4/19 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway
4/21 — Montreal, QC — M TELUS
4/23 — Toronto, ON — Great Canadian Casino
4/25 — Chicago, IL — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
04/26 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee
4/27 — Grand Rapids, MI — GLC Live at 20 Monroe
4/29 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant
4/30 — Des Moines, IA — Vibrant Music Hall
5/2 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium
5/3 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex
5/6 — Vancouver, BC — PNE Forum
5/7 — Tacoma, WA — Temple Theatre
5/9 — San Francisco, CA — The Masonic
5/10 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium
5/11 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium
