Distant have debuted a music video for “The Shallow Gaze” featuring Spite’s Darius Tehrani. That track will appear on their new album, “Into Despair,” which will be available on November 6. The band said the following about the single:
“When vulnerability becomes a competition, even honesty starts to feel like a weapon. ‘The Shallow Gaze,’ featuring Darius Tehrani of Spite, dives into the paranoia and self-doubt that come with living through trauma while constantly questioning who can truly be trusted.
The track confronts impostor syndrome and the exhausting need to validate your own suffering in environments where trauma dumping has become a form of one-upmanship. Instead of creating connection, every confession becomes another opportunity to compare scars, measure pain, and prove who has suffered more.
With its confrontational intensity and deeply personal subject matter, ‘The Shallow Gaze‘ captures the psychological toll of constantly questioning the intentions of those around you — and the realization that sometimes, the hardest person to trust is yourself.”