Self Destructor es el primer single de Niratias, el noveno álbum de estudio de Chevelle, publicado en enero de 2021. Alcanzó el número 1 en la lista Mainstream Rock de Billboard, la sexta vez que la banda lo consigue.
El tema fue escrito por Pete Loeffler, líder de la banda junto a su hermano Sam. Aunque la letra parece hablar directamente de la pandemia y los antivacunas, Loeffler contó que la canción se escribió en 2019, antes de que nadie supiera del COVID. Según explicó, surgió de una conversación con alguien que negaba la ciencia de forma muy insistente, y de ahí nació el concepto de self destructor.
Curiosidad: la canción suena en la película Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021). Y James LaBrie, cantante de Dream Theater, la eligió como su canción favorita de ese año.
El álbum fue producido de nuevo por Joe Barresi, quien trabaja con Chevelle desde Hats Off to the Bull (2011).
Vídeo (videoclip oficial):
Letra:
How many ways and how many words?
Safe in your lies but can't ignore it all
You aren't at all right
Ten million other lives, ooh
Well, it's too much to lose
Ooh, it's time, or self-destruct
They don't care what the science says
They don't wanna talk, no
'Cause this time, ready or not
This time, you fought us all
'Cause this time, you aren't at all right
You aren't at all right
Ten million other lives
How can we save
And how in this time
The lessons we've learned
To rescue the mind before it's gone
Well, it's too much to lose
Ooh, it's time, or self-destruct
They don't care what the science says
They don't wanna talk, no
Well, it's too much to lose
Ooh, it's time, or self-destruct
They don't care what the science says
They don't wanna talk
'Cause this time, ready or not
This time, you fought us all
'Cause this time, you're doubling down
And this time you'll work alone
'Cause this time, you aren't at all
Right
It's like war
It's like war
Bite your tongue
This Nosferatu, ancient ways
It's minimal, these stomach knots
Ooh, this conscience can't hide from his soul
'Til now
It's like war
It's like war
It's like war
It's like war
It's like
Bite you tongue, mmh
'Cause this time, ready or not
This time, you fought us all
'Cause this time, you're doubling down
And this time, you aren't at all right
You aren't at all right
