Behind The Tracks: Otherworldly Entity - Tower (Single) (2025)

John Harris (Singer): Tower is an interesting story, involving a lot of introspection. When I wrote Tower, we were working on another song and I was supposed to be laying down vocals for it. The other song was more upbeat and happy, and I just wasn't in the right head space for it. You see, over the past several of years of playing in Otherworldly, I've been struggling to try to fit in and belong in the modern metal scene. I found myself pushing to be more like this, or more like that, and yet we still never fit in, no matter what I did. I was getting to a point as an artist of just feeling like an outcast, like I couldn't belong in the world around me. It was a bit of an existential crisis, or dilemma at least. It was an internal struggle of what I felt I was supposed to be doing, versus what I felt I should be doing.

 

Our albums Cataclysm and Psilocyborg both did really well, getting progressively heavier, but also feeling more detached from my own personal journey. Tower became the song that really represented, both musically and lyrically, that struggle. A back and forth between heavy and melodic, a fight between aggression and peace. But more importantly, that terrifying feeling of "starting over" and reassessing how I was even approaching the music at the most basic level. And while most of our music is written with a back-and-forth of input and progress from each other, Tower was written alone, in a dark room, as a struggle.

 

I'm happy with how it came together, and I'm eternally grateful that my bandmates Shawn and Zlatko allowed me to fight that fight on my own, having my back in the recording process. I hope that others can feel this same struggle and relate to it; the fight between what's expected and what's right.