Since its release, Deathconsciousness has continuously found new listeners through memes, TikTok, and streaming, evolving from an overlooked DIY release into a cult classic and cultural touchstone.

The whole joke was that absolutely no one cared that we had Deathconsciousness, right? Like, nobody cared.

I remember making a little image that said, Have a Nice Life would like to announce that they have released the most depressing record of all time.

The earliest real run of Deathconsciousness was just a CDR that had been spray-painted in my apartment hallway. Tim and I went to a show, handing out demos, just saying, "Hey, we're in this band." And I think as we were leaving, we found all the demos we'd handed out just lying on the ground.

Since that point, Deathconsciousness has kind of never really been out of print. There's this constant wave of new people discovering the band—whether it's through memes, TikTok, or some playlist on Spotify that I had nothing to do with.

The way music gets surfaced, recommended, and connected to people now is just so different. In some ways, it has almost removed the record from its place in the chronological flow of time. Deathconsciousness came out more than 20 years ago at this point, but there are always people hearing it for the first time.

That’s a new thing—something incredible for us—and something I'm very grateful for.

-Dan Barrett 

The above is an excerpt from the podcast The New Scene. You can listen to the whole thing here. It's a great interview. Dan Barrett talks about about psychoanalysis, hypnotism, his early music career, Deathconsciousness, Have a Nice Life’s unlikely rise, Giles Corey's, The Deconstructionist, and more.

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