Perth’s metal elite Make Them Suffer have just shared their new song “Soul Decay“. The song lives on the quintet’s forthcoming album, How To Survive A Funeral, which arrives on July 24 via Greyscale Records.
Following on from singles “Erase Me” and “Drown With Me”, “Soul Decay” is yet another beastly taste of what’s to come. With its surging riff and addictive chorus, “Soul Decay” tells an all-too familiar story of watching someone deteriorate while struggling to recognise the pattern of failure is often at one’s own hand.
“Soul Decay is about watching someone deteriorate in front of you,” says frontman Sean Harmanis. “Many struggle to recognise that a recurring pattern of failure or disappointment is their often own doing. To bear the blame of your own mistakes is something that’s difficult for most people. The lyric, ‘You built yourself this prison. Tear it down, burn it to the fucking ground’ is a call to action to rise above and accept your part.”
How To Survive A Funeral is the Make Them Suffer’s fourth full-length and sees inspiration from their past and present sounds twisted together into a package that will define their place amongst their contemporaries as a truly creative act. The band enlisted Drew Fulk A.K.A. WZRDBLD, who has worked with everyone from Motionless In White and Bullet For My Valentine to Yelawolf and Lil’ Wayne. The band traveled to L.A. to hole up at Fulk’s studio. It marked the first time in the band’s career that it worked this closely with a producer and the result is truly something unique.
