Am 29. Januar 2027 veröffentlichen die britischen Death Metal Veteranen MEMORIAM ihre neue, sechste und letzte Studioscheibe “ENDGAME”. In diesem Kontext ist wohl auch der Titel der neuen Auskopplung `At The Point Of No Return´, die soeben im Lyricvideo online gestellt wurde.
Karl Willetts erklärt die tiefere Bedeutung hinter `At The Point Of No Return´:
„At The Point of No Return’ comes from a feeling that has become increasingly difficult to shake. Watching the world move towards disaster while the people with the power to change its direction continue to push forward. You see the destruction, hear the justifications and recognise the same rhetoric being used repeatedly. Another population is told to make sacrifices. Another generation is expected to fight. People are left trying to make sense of something that should never have happened. The older I get, the harder I find it to accept how readily human lives become expendable. Behind every report of casualties are people who had plans. They had someone waiting for them, something they wanted to do, somewhere they hoped to be. Then a decision is made, sometimes thousands of miles away, and all of that is taken from them. That is where this song begins for me. With the people who have to live with the consequences. I have spent a considerable part of my life writing and performing music that deals with conflict, death and remembrance. Over the years, those subjects have become increasingly personal. You become more aware of how fragile everything is, how quickly circumstances can change and how much we take for granted until it disappears. There is anger in these words, certainly. I still feel that anger when I see cruelty rewarded, division encouraged, and suffering explained away as though it is an unavoidable part of somebody else’s plan. Writing gives me somewhere to put that feeling. Getting those words out, and standing behind them, still matters to me. But there is also a great deal of sadness in this song. Sadness for the lives lost, for the people left behind and for the possibility of a different future that has been destroyed along with them. The title describes the moment when the warnings have all been there, the opportunities to step back have passed, and the consequences begin to unfold. There is Something terrifying about that moment. You can understand exactly what is happening and still be powerless to stop it. With Endgame being our final studio album, I also hear something of our own situation in those words. Making that decision brings a lot of reflection. You think about the people you have shared the journey with and the reasons you started and everything that has happened along the way. I feel an enormous amount of pride in what we have created with Memoriam. I also feel the weight of bringing this chapter to a close.“
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Album Trackliste:
1 Nothing More to Say
2 The Trench
3 At the Point of No Return
4 March of Time
5 Another Battle Won
6 The Frontline
7 Close the Skies
8 The Final War
9 Endgame
10 Psychological Scars (Digipak Bonus Track)
11 No Tyrants Survive (Boxset Bonus Track)
12 Damage Done (Boxset Bonus Track)