As the title suggests, and as Farida recently explained in her interview on The Obelisk, this enchanting piece of psychedelic rock, is a song that Farida's brother, Selim Lemouchi, began writing back in the days for The Devil's Blood, it was never finished and Molassess have decided to complete it and include it in their album. "That was a Selim song, a Devil’s Blood song, that was never finished. And we tried it. We worked on it many times, but it never was good enough, or it was never appropriate. Then it became just another thing that was thrown on the pile of unfinished stuff. But also it was one of my favorites. " said Farida. "We finished it, but it was Selim’s song. We put it at the end of the album I think too, Through the Hollow is more of a statement like, 'And now for something completely different.' It’s very clear that it’s no Devil’s Blood and we’re doing our own shit, but it felt really good to have him there also. We thought it was a perfect ending of this new beginning."
From their official pages, Mlassess have introduced "The Devil Lives" with this comment: "Our brother left us this diamond in the rough years ago. A riddle that kept resonating and found its way up and into our hearts time after time. It is with great pride, eternal love, an everburning fire and gratitude that we finally managed to climb its stairs. This is what we’ve found along the way, beneath its stirring coils. THE DEVIL LIVES".
And he lives indeed. In the guitars, in the vocals, in the overall spellbinding atmosphere of the song. It's a charisma which permeates it deeply and can't go unnoticed.
Molassess "Through The Hollow" is out on October 16th, 2020 on Season of Mist and pre-orders can be placed for different editions of the album, as well as for bundles with new merchandise, on Season of Mist's webstore, while on Ván Records' webstore is possible to pre-order an exclusive version on purple and red mixed double vinyl, limited to 200 copies.