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“Dust” is a song with one simple message; if God doesn't exist, life cannot be significant on an objective basis; but merely a relative basis. The answer to questions such as “What is my purpose?” or “What is the meaning of life?” would be that you exist for no purpose whatsoever, and that life has no overarching, grounded objective meaning. Sure, life could be meaningful and significant relative to the things each person subjectively enjoys and cares about; but ultimately our existence would be an accidental byproduct of nature with all destined for permanent destruction.
My primary source of inspiration when writing this song was the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible, however I also drew heavily from the philosopher William Lane Craig; who has written on this topic extensively in his paper “The Absurdity of Life Without God”. Interestingly, this concept is not exclusive to the Bible or to Christianity, but many atheist philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and Friedrich Nietzsche have echoed this sentiment in their respective works as well.
lyrics
Taste and see of the vanity
A cosmic accident of insignificance
Merely a spark in the infinite darkness
Spiralling in relativity, life is absurd
No worth
True purpose is lost if we reduce to dust
All meaning becomes subjective
In the absence of God we will rot, and our souls are lost
Mankind is orphaned, no reason for us
Just specks of dust, straying through infinite nothing.
Objective significance is illusory
Now fade, and decay
The rotting is our call
A bankrupt pursuit
Striving after air in unyielding despair
Creation ripe for cessation
For all that awaits in the end is absolute death
Mankind is orphaned, no reason for us
Just specks of dust, straying through infinite nothing.
Objective significance is illusory
Void of God, all is destined to futility
Accidents, byproducts of matter and chance
Woe where humanity stands
We live for naught, and return to dust
Mankind is orphaned, no reason for us
Just specks of dust, straying through infinite nothing.
Objective significance is illusory
Void of God, all is destined to futility
credits
released December 16, 2022
Peter Watson - Composition, Recording, Mixing/Mastering
Out of the wreckage brought upon by dual personal tragedies comes an outstanding album that is sorrowful and victorious. Once you listen to this a few times, it’s hard to want to listen to anything else for a while. This is my front runner for metal album of 2021, and perhaps even my overall AOTY. Metal Marc
This album slams. That's all there is to it. Brutal riffs, guttural growls, and heavy-handed percussive accompaniment. The instrumentation is nothing short of phenomenal with drums that serve a menacing, industrial feel to be beheld. An absolutely savage work in reverence of Christ our Lord. 10/10. Bella-Grace :)
I picked this up a few years ago, at a time when I really needed an album like this. To this day it is still something that I love to play beginning to end and feel every second of it.
Such a amazing expression of humbling yourself lyricwise mixed with the most unique style of Black Gaze I've ever heard. billyspears