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Returning after almost six years of silence, In Parallel is back with three new emotional songs. Featuring members of Hopesfall and Celebrity, In Parallel is a moody and dense continuation of the legacy created by everyone in this group. Their new EP, titled Moral Injury, marks their first release with DIY label Mind Over Matter Records, and is set for release November 20.
In the post-COVID landscape, the band was eager to get into a room and work on music together so they booked studio time with no agenda in mind and proceeded to write and record these three songs over the course of a weekend. Reflecting on a horrific school shooting that happened literally within the same neighborhood as Ryan Parrish’s home in Tennessee, the event bled deeply into the musical and lyrical themes of the record, with the EP overtly addressing the gun violence epidemic in the United States and the feeling of being unmoored in the current political and cultural landscape.
The lead single, ‘Carson Lore,’ kicks off the EP with a stark message, setting the tone for the entirety of the release.
Speaking of ‘Carson Lore,’ the band say: “This song reflects our feelings about the political nature of gun violence in America. The line ‘this place wants us dead’ at the start of the song, expresses the dark truth of an extremist fueled, capitalistic distortion of the Second Amendment, bent to meet a fear-based battle cry for more. More guns, guns capable of exacting the most amount of devastation, without restriction, at any cost to American lives. Fear lines the pockets of powerful men. Always question the motive.”
As an aside, ‘Carson Lore’ was the pen name Lance Black’s father used to write articles for his school’s newspaper. Black says he used that name in this song because he couldn’t stomach singing an actual politician’s name.
In partnership with Mind Over Matter Records, the band will be donating a portion of each record sold to a Safer TN, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing gun violence in Tennessee.
