Distant are back with another new single sporting a prominent guest appearance. The deathcore outfit are joined by Spite vocalist Darius Tehrani on this latest song, “The Shallow Gaze“. It follows this past August’s “Flesh And Nails“, which saw Bodysnatcher‘s Kyle Medina guesting. Both of those tracks are taken from Distant‘s next studio album “Into Despair“, which the group will be issuing on November 06th. This latest music video was overseen by Jachym Belcher.
Distant said of this track:
“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.”
“Into Despair” features a veritable small army of special guests, also including Ricky Myers of Suffocation, Tyler Beam of The Last Ten Seconds Of Life and Skyler Conder of Varials and CELL fame.
