After singer/songwriter Damen Easton put out two collaborations with guitarist Dave Wolfberg— “The Dark Corners” in 2020 and “The Stars” in 2023 —Easton resolved to write something with Wolfberg that could fully show off the guitarist’s talents. In spring of this year, the inspiration finally hit and the two created a new project called Limit State that wrote out an entire album in a matter of months. Joined by bassist Nicolas Dinucci, drummer Till Richter, and producer Chris King, they put together an album that melds classic rock, grunge, metal, and post-punk. That album, called Beneath the Wave, is still in production now.
Today, they’re premiering their new track “Eat Their Young,” a bluesy, grungy, doomy track with a powerhouse vocal performance reminiscent of the late, great Chris Cornell. It’s an emotionally powerful song that pulls in the full emotional resonance of the blues and gives it a modern upgrade.
“The genre of Eat Their Young might be called Doom Blues (like doom metal but blues rock),” explain the band. “It speaks to the struggle of the young and the up-and-coming. It speaks to the pain of being criticized by older generations who rest on wealth accumulated in a bygone era of economic expansion and buoyancy, an era the likes of which the young cannot hope to see. It speaks to the desperation that the young and the powerless experience, struggling to curry favor with the entrenched powers in hopes of ascending to a fraction of their comfort and security.
“I should be clear that this song is not meant to accuse any individuals of any particular misdeed, nor speak about anything so specific as conspiracy theories or anything like that. In these lyrics, I am speaking mytho-poetically, or symbolically, about large scale societal dynamics that I feel at play in our time.
“That said, this song might be summarized as a nightmarish ode to the baby boomer generation.”
Check out the track below.
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