As I mentioned during my interview, I'm a big music geek. I wanted to give you a heads up that a new album release from one of my favorite bands focuses on various themes of mental illness -- particularly anxiety and depression. For me, personally, the tracks are really hitting home and putting my own experience into words much more poetically than I could on my own.
The band is called Leprous and the album is called "Pitfalls." They are a Norwegian progressive rock band. I'm not promoting this in any other way than as a big fan who thinks that this is relevant to this community.
Here's an Amazon link and a review if you want to vet them:
https://smile.amazon.com/Pitfalls-Lepro ... 07WFJ9JVX/
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/lepro ... n-october/
Site with lyrics for all of the songs -- https://genius.com/albums/Leprous/Pitfalls
From the review, there's this quote:
"The album has been written through one of my toughest years, where I struggled with depression and anxiety. No filters, no metaphors, just the truth. They say that writing music is therapeutic. but I would say that it's an understatement. For me, 'Pitfalls' is the result of one and a half years of learning how to get through the dark tunnel. The music has been my torch."
Personally, one of my favorite lines in the lead single Below should really be a struggle in a sentence -- "I don't remember why I'm here -- only why I need to disappear."
