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“Earthmover” is a track about Earth-destroying golems (hence the title “Earthmover”), knocking down mountains and destroying all in sight.
As time passes, the golems grow restless. They have no purpose, no reason for their creation. They’re wandering, immortal, massive, machines who can only destroy—but they cannot be destroyed.
This existence is tiring. Being a machine that can only destroy, not create, is inherently distressing. In addition, once all is destroyed, there is nothing left to do. The golems yearn for death, but they cannot die; they cannot even speak, but if they could, the only thing they would say would be: “we wish we were dead”.
Noisey: What song affected you the most emotionally to put together?
Tim Macuga: Certainly the big, loud, kill/destroy moment at the end of “Earthmover.” Dan does tell the story, fans will always ask about how we got that “bass drop” at the end of the song. Quite literally I threw the bass guitar down and stalked out of the room. Recording that particular track, it was a lot of songs we built from the base up. That one instrumentally ended up being particularly backwards and we were doing bass last. I physically acted out and ended up in the recording. It was a bit too much to take to keep going with it at a certain point. I guess that’s a real in the moment example.
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