HOLLOW FRONT drop punishing single COMATOSE and open up about battle with depression during COVID-19.
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected many areas of our daily life, including mental health. With the ability to capture the emotions associated with the hopeless situation of the pandemic, Grand Rapids metalcore outfit HOLLOW FRONT (Tyler Tate, Dakota Alvarez, Lee Albrecht, Devin Attard, Brandon Rummler) release COMATOSE via UNFD, a song about battling against mental health and depression during COVID-19.
Vocalist Tyler Tate gets personal on one of the band’s most honest and relatable songs to date by discussing how the pandemic scenario left with a comatose-like feeling after having live music, life purpose and meaning ripped from underneath him due to restrictions.
He opened up on the lyrical content of the single and his personal struggles with depression during the pandemic as follows:
“I came up with this concept while being caught in the depths of depression during the heaviest part of the pandemic. When the entire music industry was shut down, and there was no sign of a comeback sight. Everything we had worked for was taken away in the blink of an eye and we had no idea when we would get it back. It was terrifying.”
“I felt like I was fighting an impending darkness all the time, what I refer to in the song as ‘the sleep’; that feeling as if you’re just floating through your life, without happiness or purpose. Almost like being in a coma, but still retaining your higher cognitive functions. You’re aware of what’s happening around you, but don’t know how long you’ll be stuck this way, or if you’ll ever truly feel awake and alive again. But you have no choice but to press on, even though you feel trapped by the weight of carrying on. I think a lot of human beings feel this way, especially over the past few years. Some of us are on auto pilot, just taking life day by day and hoping to feel happy and normal again”.
Comatose follows some of Hollow Front’s most successful and forward-thinking singles to date dropping at the tail end of 2021 including Wearing Thin and Treading Water.
Watch HOLLOW FRONT – COMATOSE (Official Music Video):
Hollow Front – Comatose Lyrics:
I’m feeling tired
Weighed down by a hopeless world
Everywhere I turn
I watch the whole thing burn
What have I lost
And what all did it cost?
All these feelings
Buried deep in my thoughts
Comatose
In a sleep so deep
I feel I’m never coming home
Comatose and morose
Trapped in a nightmare
And it won’t let me go
Trust me when I say
I don’t want sympathy
For this dormant beast
That dwells inside of me
I’ve been fighting
The sleep for so long
Cause I don’t belong
Walking to the beat
Of this same damn song
Where did it all go wrong?
What have I lost
And what all did it cost?
All these feelings
Buried deep in my thoughts
A coma of the soul
Relinquish self control
Fall victim to the sleep
Comatose
In a sleep so deep
I feel I’m never coming home
Comatose and morose
Trapped in a nightmare
And it won’t let me go
Lost dreaming
I’m screaming out
Cause I’m trapped in a nightmare
It won’t let me go
And I don’t want sympathy
For this dormant beast
That dwells inside of me
I’ve been fighting this sleep for so long
Walking to the beat of this same damn song
Comatose
In a sleep so deep
I feel I’m never coming home
Comatose and morose
Trapped in a nightmare
And it won’t let me go
Lost dreaming
I’m screaming out
Cause I’m trapped in a nightmare
It won’t let me go
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