We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Provo, UT-based hardcore outfit Despite Despair’s new music video for their song “Post Purging Reflection” (watch it below). The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming album, GEIST, which is scheduled for release on October 7th.
“‘Post Purging Reflection’ was inspired by a loved one’s battle with anorexia. Her disposition lead her into a bout of drug abuse, and she had soon reached such a severe state that she was hospitalized from developing heart conditions; problems that will last her a lifetime. It was a sick sense of irony that her heart almost gave out because I believed she actually had so much ‘heart’. She had ambitions. She was hard working. She had fierce intelligence. But in her mind, it didn’t matter; she hated herself. – Hated her body.
I loved her. In her mind, her body was a prison for what seemed like a powerful soul that waited inside and I wished I could have taken away her pain so badly. In my ostensible helplessness, the only thing I found I could do was to be a friend and support her, listen to her, and write this song with her in mind, and like so many others, for those who fight for what’s inside instead of this flesh machine prison and this idea that Capitalism sells to you and I saying that we’ll never be good enough. ‘The times we struggle together are the times we’re the strongest.'”
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