Iron Lung have shared an official video for “Purgatory Dust // Virus” off their new album “Adapting // Crawling.” That effort will be available on April 18.
Jensen Ward commented:
“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.
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.”