“Shadow Moses” is the lead single from Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth album Sempiternal.

Also, six years after the release of 2013’s “Shadow Moses,” Bring Me The Horizon entered in the soundtrack of Hideo Kojima’s DEATH STRANDING, a 2019 game from the same creator of Metal Gear.

In a track-by-track interview with MetalFuckingSucks, vocalist Oli Sykes explained:

We actually never intended for it to be a single! We had that Warped Tour show last year and thought it’d be a good song to play and maybe put out for free, to bridge the gap between our last record and this new one, and it’s good to play live. But, management said ‘This song’s too good, you can’t put that out for free!’ It came out a lot better than we ever anticipated, but I still think it’s the ‘safest’ track on the record. We also thought having the single as track six was a great statement because it showed the level of this album. Most bands have the single as the first track on their album.”

In another track-by-track interview, this time with SugarScape, bassist Matt Kean revealed:

The title is from a computer game called Metal Gear Solid. It’s the opening bit with the people like doing the spooky singing, that’s a melody from the game a lot. I think we’ve had songs in car racing games or something, but we all want one in FIFA or something cool like that.

An attack on organized religion and the idea of a “deity.” Bring Me The Horizon asks for a reason to believe with “The House of Wolves.”

In a track-by-track interview with MetalFuckingRocks, vocalist Oli Sykes explained:

Lyrically, it’s all about religion. Before we wrote this album, I was in a position where I was asked to believe in God, to get better, and I just couldn’t understand that, so that’s what I wrote from. It’s about [how] there’s no salvation, there’s no one that’s gonna save you. You’ve got to get better because you want it for yourself, your family or your friends, not because you believe there’s a man in the sky.

Death Cab for Cutie is an American rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of frontman Ben Gibbard (vocals, guitar, piano), Nick Harmer (bass), Dave Depper (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Zac Rae (keyboards, guitar), and Jason McGerr (drums). The band was originally a solo project by Ben Gibbard, who later decided to expand the project into a complete band. In 2014, founding guitarist and producer Chris Walla announced that he would be departing from the band after recording their eighth studio album, Kintsugi.

Frontman Ben Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group, the The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, in The Beatles‘ 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour. That song’s name was in turn taken from an invented pulp fiction crime magazine, devised by Richard Hoggart as part of his 1957 study of working class culture The Uses of Literacy. In a 2011 interview, Gibbard stated “The name was never supposed to be something that someone was going to reference 15 years on. So yeah, I would absolutely go back and give it a more obvious name.”

Benjamin Gibbard’s middle finger to distance, in “Transatlanticism” we hear a story of a man who has been distanced from his love both internally and literally by her being an ocean apart from him.

This song is featured as the main track in the album Transatlanticism.