Alissa White-Gluz releases first solo single “The Room Where She Died”

A few hours after the announcement of her parting ways with Arch Enemy, Alissa White-Gluz releases a new single from her solo project named Alissa. The track is titled “The Room Where She Died“, and was written in collaboration with Oliver Palotai (Kamelot).

I hope you love this first offering from my upcoming solo album. You can watch the whole video on my YouTube Channel.

“The Room Where She Died” is a song that feels truly satisfying to me; like I get to express myself in so many ways that have been dormant for years. This upcoming album is diverse; and I love the idea of opening up this new chapter with this song and video, which I wrote the script for.

Can’t wait to share more with you! ⚓️

The Room Where She Died
by Alissa White-Gluz and Oliver Palotai

I stand, lost in shadows of,
Years of lament etched into four walls.
Like a whisper, 
A feverish dream.
Where only echoes respond,
I keep asking – how long?
This caravan follows a hearse,
Leaving the Room where she died.
Dying begins at birth.
To suffer is the way of our kind.
Let lies sit like baskets of,
Flowers in bloom,
Colours bright and false.
She will dance on Hyperion’s field.
Where I’m still wondering why,
She hit her head on the sky?
To be alive is only to acknowledge time as it is.
Do you remember the feeling of being alive with lightning in your mind?
Sinners and saints join the broken and brave in this memory plane.
We’re all the same.
Cold are your nights.
Hours will pass as you strangle time.
Dead are your eyes.
Nevertheless all the corpses still waltz by your side.
Pain walks on broken feet.
A broken heart keeps the beat.
Still she hums softly.
Looking through cloudy window panes,
Without moving for ever and a day.
Then the light comes to greet her face, 
And brush the dust from her broken brain.
Eyes say what the voice cannot.
Is this where it ends?
Here, our paths must part.
Just a helpless spectator, am I.
And I keep questioning “god”,
To drown out the ferryman’s calls.

Vocals performed, recorded and written by Alissa White-Gluz
Music by Oliver Palotai
Video script by Alissa White-Gluz
Video by iCode

Just the beginning.

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