Music Review // Ways In Waves "Death of Others"

 

"Death of Others" is fascinating song, not just because of its music video but because of the sound as well.  In the broadest sense of the genre, this song reminds me of some combination of Rush and a skramz band.  So if Rush was forming in the year 2024 they might have sounded something like this.  But this other quality exists within this song as well, musically, and it just reminds me of the Pokemon theme.   It's not 100% Pokemon, per se, but it just has that feeling like the theme song for a super hero and possibly in an anime.

This music video by Ways In Waves is also an adventure.   The style of animation reminds me of "Adventure Time".   The focus is on a main character who finds a marble and then takes it to what looks like a pinball game but might not be.  This takes us to this scene where the marbles come in and roll through these pegs.  Eventually the main character turns into a marble and goes into the pinball machine which is kind of an odd ending and one I cannot immediatetly explain.

My only theory on this music video is that the marble represents death and it hits certain pegs to mark them as dead, which is one of those notions of wondering why certain people die and you don't.  In the end, rather than dying the main character becomes death and I'm just going to say that's open for you to take however you best see fit.  But the song does ask the question "Do you think I'm empty?", which seems to be related with it all.

Realistically, this song doesn't even have to be about death in a physical sense but more like the dettaching of oneself from someone else.  Lines like "No care no ties to / Anyone or / Anything that looks at me with / Love and tell me / If I missed the chance to make a / Better life" which somehow just makes it feel like we're cutting ties in the way you pull weeds from a plant so the healthy parts can flourish.  Either way, however you want to interpret these lyrics, the sound is right on and this music video needs to be seen.