Noizze premiere Death of Youth's ‘Nothing Is The Same Anymore’

A tale of navigating the non-linear nature of grief that’s told via the aesthetic of Silent Hill and the sounds of peak early 2010’s post-hardcore, the new single and video from Death of Youth is familiar as it is uncomfortable. We’re overjoyed to premiere it. 

The title track of band’s upcoming debut LP, ‘Nothing Is The Same Anymore’ is a bittersweet song in essentially every way possible. Thematically dealing with the winding and often endless road that is healing from trauma and grief, here, the London melodic hardcore quartet Death of Youth channel such labyrinthine feelings via a sound that’s reminiscent of the golden age of 2010’s UK post-hardcore. But whilst motifs reminiscent of bygone acts such as Heights, Landscapes, Bastions and More Than Life are abundant and plentiful, this is by no means a song that simply a nostalgia trip.

Instead, in a way that feels almost meta, ‘Nothing Is The Same Anymore’ feels akin to look back to the days where such aforementioned bands reigned supreme and the journey between then and now. It’s a track that acknowledges and details the trails and trauma that has chaptered such a period of time, and as a result, how the people we were back then are nothing like that people we are now. It’s a brilliant track, one sweetly nostalgic on a surface level, but one that draws attention to the ageing and changing power of nonlinear recovery and time itself. It’s video, inspired by PS2 era Silent Hill and all it’s all low polygon glory, visually presents this wonderfully too.

“The song is somewhat bittersweet in nature as it deals with the nonlinearity that comes from grief and the journey that you have to overcome to get to a place where it’s manageable”, state the band on the track. “It’s not a song about completely healing, but one about accepting where you’re currently at and acknowledging how far along you’ve come from where you were at the start of the process.

The video features a protagonist facing various beings that each represent different stages of grief and overcoming them in different ways. The inspiration came from the Silent Hill video game series which features characters overcoming physical manifestations of their personal demons. It was animated by an animator named Nick Alkin who makes a lot of low polygon videos from a script that was written by the band’s vocalist Rob David. Nick took the script, and fleshed out the idea into the finished video, achieving something distinctive yet also familiar.”

Death of Youth’s debut LP Nothing Is The Same Anymore is released February 16th via Engineer Records (UK), Cat’s Claw Records (UK), Sell The Heart Records (US), Remorse Records (France), Dancing Rabbit Records (Germany), Vina Records (Italy), and Pasidaryk Pat Records (Lithuania). 

Pre-order the record now and check out the video for ‘Nothing Is The Same Anymore’.

Watch it here: https://www.noizze.co.uk/music-video-premiere-death-of-youth-nothing-is-the-same-anymore/