Mutually Assured Destruction

Some relationships are built on trust. Others operate on the understanding that if one person goes down, they're taking the other with them.

“Mutually Assured Destruction” is about the second kind.

It's a love song, technically. Just not one we'd recommend playing at a wedding.

We wanted to explore that strange territory where passion becomes competition, arguments become strategic maneuvers, and two people who know exactly how to hurt each other somehow mistake that knowledge for intimacy.

There's something almost impressive about the lengths people will go to avoid admitting they've lost.

Musically, we wanted the same tension: guitars that threaten to tear everything apart, electronics ticking away beneath the surface, and a chorus that sounds almost triumphant until you pay attention to the words.

The artwork takes the metaphor to its logical conclusion. Bombs falling, a city burning, and an enormous explosion swallowing the horizon. Our familiar crimson S remains suspended in the middle of it all.

Romantic? Not particularly.

Accurate? Unfortunately.

The trouble with mutually assured destruction is that nobody actually wins.

But some people would rather lose everything than let somebody else have the last word.