The Death of Peace of Mind (song)

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"This track didn’t have much deliberation behind the lyrics at first and was more of a flow-state writing experience. The skeleton of this song was a really experimental process that took place over the course of a full day. If you haven’t heard about the genesis of this song by now, I’ll make it brief: at the start of quarantine in 2020 I challenged myself to make a track using only samples I recorded of household items. Smacking pillows, shaking keys, recording and tuning the low frequency of a vacuum cleaner to a C note and making a multi octave sampler out of it. Stuff like that. After a few hours of tinkering in my DAW [digital audio workstation] I had made an instrumental with all these sounds. From there, I just looped sections and free-styled melodies with whatever words or incoherent noises came to my head. After countless loops the noises shaped into vowels, which shaped into consonants, and then words that ultimately felt very native to the dark, dry and sensual core of the instrumental and didn’t need much tweaking once the real instrumental was realised around them. Asking the question: ‘When this is all over, will we both go home alive, and will we ever find inner peace again after the events that took place?" [2]

Charts

"The Death of Peace of Mind"
Single by Bad Omens
from the album The Death of Peace of Mind
Released
  • November 9, 2021
  • May 16, 2023 (radio release)
Recorded2020–2021
Genre
Length4:01
Label Sumerian
Songwriter(s)
  • Noah Sebastian
  • Joakim Karlsson
Producer(s)
  • Sebastian
  • Karlsson
Bad Omens singles chronology
"Never Know"
(2021)
"The Death of Peace of Mind"
(2021)
"What Do You Want from Me?" / "Artificial Suicide"
(2021)

"Just Pretend"
(2022)

"The Death of Peace of Mind"
(2023)

"V.A.N."
(2024)

Certifications

Certifications for "The Death of Peace of Mind"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [6] Gold500,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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