IRON LUNG - "Purgatory Dust // Virus" [official video] - Iron Lung Records

3 de mar. de 2025

IRON LUNG - “Purgatory Dust // Virus” This is the 2nd single from IRON LUNG’s 4th studio album entitled Adapting // Crawling due out April 18th 2025 on Iron Lung Records. Physical and digital formats available at https://linktr.ee/ironlungrecords Video by James Atkinson @threshold_guardian PURGATORY DUST: Nothing hurts them? “We can’t die!” Viruses are lurking, killing people. Stupid people. They all caught it. Now they die. Or if they don’t, they’ll wish they did. Ground into a purgatory dust, a never ending purgatory dust. VIRUS: “I am virus. I am decrepitude. I am virus. I am slow death. I specialize in grotesques, twisting and deforming human bodies. I am decrepitude come to ruin your remaining years. I am slow death.” Enshrined in iron. Lung gives life. A worthless time spent waiting for them to vacuum up the dust. Never ending purgatory dust. On Adapting // Crawling, the first new album in 12 years from hardcore / DIY vets IRON LUNG (duo Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland) take head shots at mental health with specific emphasis on the exacting tolls the past five years have taken on humanity. The “song-infected-with-another-song” concept behind Adapting // Crawling’s centerpiece and triptych singles “Purgatory Dust” / “Virus” / “Purgatory Dust (Finale)” was one IRON LUNG had always wanted to try. “At its core, ‘Purgatory Dust’ is about people not taking any precautions during the pandemic, causing even more of a spread and way more of a stupid panic,” Jensen explains. “Then we introduce ‘Virus’ in the middle of the tune and let it wreak havoc for almost too long. When ‘Dust’ comes back it deals with the fallout from infection be it death or long term illness. That behavior really freaked me out during Covid, probably because I have studied the Polio epidemic a ton over the course of this band and people behaved pretty much exactly the same way back in the 50s. The echoes of it are staggering really. Same idiocy. Same willful ignorance and hostility toward reason. Human nature is insane. I am surprised our species has lived this long.”

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