Scoring The End Of The World

“The album is very much based on the time spent between realities—real life and pandemic life,” Motionless In White vocalist and ringleader Chris “Motionless” Cerulli tells Apple Music about the band’s sixth album. Through their dramatic fusion of metalcore, industrial and gothic influences, Cerulli and his bandmates examine the impact of lockdown on a personal and collective level, as well as the unending social and political turmoil taking place in America. “At the start of the pandemic, it began to look like the end of the world,” Cerulli tells Apple Music. “Everybody freaking out, total chaos, all these different negative aspects coming to light in terms of how things are handled, the people in power, George Floyd—and just the sheer pandemonium of everything. At the same time, my personal experience during that time frame was really dark with emotional and mental trials. I thought it would be cool to split the lyrical content between my observations of the world ending and the end of my world internally.” Below, he describes each track. “Meltdown” “I wouldn’t say this is tongue-in-cheek or sarcastic, but certainly it’s one of those ‘we’re so fucked, I’m just laughing at what’s going on’ kind of things. I wanted to make a song that felt like, musically and melodically, we were placing you inside that scene in a movie right before everything comes to an end and collapses—the camera’s shaking, everything’s getting crazy and frantic. The lyrics are kind of looking at it like we’re invited to an end-of-the-world party.” “Sign of Life” “This comes from feeling like, ‘How am I going to get myself out of this and find that sign of life within me during all this darkness?’ I felt dead inside, at times, because I didn't really have much of a will to do anything and felt just hopeless. I was trying to look for and cling onto any sign of life within myself and to push out the negative side that was kind of taking over.” “Werewolf” “I think this is the band’s favourite