LIZZY BORDEN - "Appointment With Death Is A Record About Facing The Reality That We All Will Be Having A Conversation With The Angel Of Death At Some Point"
December 5, 2007, 16 years ago
Komodo Rock recently caught up with Lizzy Borden to discuss his new album, Appointment With Death. The following is an excerpt from the interview:
KR: Appointment With Death is a concept album. Could you tell us a little more about the idea behind it?
LB: "Each song is a story within a story, the connecting line is death. I still try and write songs where the reader ultimately connects the dots, identifying and creating with their own imagination what it means to them. I think that’s the definition of true art and that is my goal. I call them theme records, the theme this time around that I chose to write about was death. The death of life... the death of love... the desire for finality... mass extinction... remembrance of the dead, as well as the celebration of it. I tried to embrace this theme from all directions."
KR: Would you take us through some of the important tracks on the album?
LB: "If I don’t view them all as important then what do I have? I don’t like to reveal what my lyrics are about in detail because then there would be no reason to read them. I like people to search through the lyrics on their own and find out what the story is about, let them use their own imagination. Appointment With Death is a record about facing the reality that we all will be having a conversation with the Angel of Death at some point in our lives."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
