The Eventual Path is the debut EP from industrial act Don’t Ever Speak. Industrial music has always covered itself in apocalyptic themes and called for change, but The Eventual Path’s message is distinct and urgent. In fact, unless you’re sitting on the hard right of the field, you’re going to find at least one song to get behind. In an era of disaster and needed change, this debut couldn’t have come at a better time.

And, although the year isn’t finished yet, Don’t Ever Speak may have delivered 2008’s best debut. I recently got the chance to speak with founder :daniel: about the ideals behind the music.

The Eventual Path is quite an ambitious project, at least thematically. What was your goal with it?

I suppose my goal with The Eventual Path, and Don’t Ever Speak as a whole, is to help people to see the world around them a little differently. I want people to question, think about and challenge everything they see, read, hear, and know. We have come to accept what we read in newspapers, see on television, and find on the Internet so easily in this culture that we cloud our own individual judgment. This keeps us from looking at the underlying causes and the effects these causes will ultimately have. The Eventual Path actually examines three of these paths: the course of this nation at war, the course of our culture’s rule-the-earth perception, and the course of the natural cycle of our sun.

I want people to ask, ‘Why?’ and ask it as many times as necessary to get to the root cause; like when we were children. We have a bad habit in this culture of only looking at and treating symptoms; not causes. This can be taken literally, as with the current health care system, or figuratively, as with the War on Drugs or the War on Terrorism. For example, with the War on Terrorism, we are given all of this information from the media and the government about terrorist organizations and plots. Unfortunately, most of the public buys right into it and says, ‘Oh, these are bad people and I feel threatened. We should kill them before they kill us!’ Now we have war on two fronts, have lost more soldiers than citizens on 9/11 and have a breeding ground for new terrorist recruits. What we should be asking is ‘What situation has made these people want to become terrorists? Is it possible that they view us as terrorists and feel that we are a threat to them? Isn’t invading their land going to inspire more of them to feel hatred towards us and become terrorists?’

If we can start to look at the material we are receiving from a slightly different angle, and dig just a little deeper, I think we would find that a lot of what we think we know is just an illusion based on limited and skewed information.