Modern Metal band Above the Ocean returns with their latest single, "Therapy", a love letter to music and its power to pull us back from the brink. Following the success of “Love Song (For the Broken)”, the band dives even deeper, delivering a track that’s as raw as it is cathartic.
"Therapy" is quintessential Above the Ocean. It hits hard with a fusion of Modern Metalcore and Nu Metal, complete with heavy guitar riffs, a catchy chorus, a crushing breakdown, and enough screaming to shake your soul. As vocalist and lyricist José Saruga puts it: “Sometimes life has the ability to throw you in a hole, deep underground, when you least expect it. I discovered in 2006, with my first band, that my coping mechanism is to scream my lungs out until I am drained of oxygen. And then I'll scream some more to keep the demons away. We all need to scream in our daily affairs. It is natural. It is therapeutical. I am just lucky enough to be able to scream into a microphone.”
The accompanying music video, directed by Diogo Fragoso, is a visual spectacle that feels more like a short film. The video shows the band undergoing an experimental treatment where music is the cure—a metaphor for how deeply music can heal. “Playing and listening to music has been a form of therapy for us,” the band explains. “It’s our haven, and that’s the message we want to convey with this video, in our own twisted and surreal way, that music will always be there for us when everything else is falling apart.”
With "Therapy," Above the Ocean reminds us that music doesn’t just fill the silence—it fights the demons.
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