SALEM - DieWithMe (Official Music Video)

Credits:
Directed by Jack Donoghue
Produced by Damjan Mitrevski

[abraham]

this is probably the highest budget salem music video lmao

[deepwebvip]

I lost more than 10 friends to opioid overdoses the year I got sober and this song is almost too painful to listen to. The lyrics on top of the emotion brought on through the synths inexplicably capture the complicated tragedy of years of pain ended in a moment of bliss. Something so horrific you can’t escape the grasp of that lures you in with lies. The promise to temporarily escape the hell you’re living in only to rip the soul out of so many amazing fucking kids before they could ever experience the beauties of life so many take for granted. So many amazing people live through fucking hell everyday.

If you’re reading this and you know that feeling, I promise you, if you don’t give up and you keep fucking fighting no matter how many times you’ve been beat down over and over, you can get through this shit.

And PLEASE, if you have any time sober at all and you relapse, TAKE A VERY SMALL TEST SHOT. Your tolerance can drop significantly in a short amount of time and with the amount of fentanyl in dope now, you have no idea how strong your shits gonna hit you. Every single person I’ve lost to overdoses has died from the first shot they took after having some time sober.

[leedavis]

Lost my wife and mother of my two children to fentanyl addiction. I would play this song on repeat while we used. She haunts me constantly. I miss this person with all my being. Her existence was essential to my reason for living and loving.

[HittokiriBattousai]

I love the idea, and it's, kind of, the dark side of those happy techno goofy cartoony emotes that promoted pill use in the early 90's. Loving your comeback, guys, keep it up!

[garrettf]

Love Salem. Im a IV heroin addict who just got 5 years sober in January, so I’m here to tell you that it’s possible to be “free”

[gaba_goblin]

The faint gasps (truly the most haunting given the context), the drifting audio, the way the words line up into a rail in a way at the end, and the pillman embodying the pain of digging oneself out of the negative where being high so much inevitably leads....
Touched home.
I miss my friends.

[luckypaul]

The style of the first album is felt directly. A very deep message. I bought a sweatshirt from you. Now the most mysterious Christian in the area.

[chachachalewis]

Salem enables my heart to cry out and be true to my emotions. Thank you Salem.

[anawannawhat]

An unexpected visual to my favorite song on the record. Reminiscent of the opiod crisis lookbook. Reminscent of time and pain past.

[Genghsitrons]

This is absolutely fucking chilling.
Opioids are the fucking devil.
Stay safe out there,
Test your drugs
Don't get high alone or with people you don't trust
I love you.

[chateaudeau]

This album is so special so glad u guys came back so much stronger

[drastically]

Remembrance and respect for every one of our friends who did not live to see this day.
🖤🖤🖤 XXXX — til' infinity 🖤🖤🖤

[uliygolubev]

WHO ANIMATED THIS F*CKING MASTERPIECE? Beautiful how the perc was ascending for a few moments, fell down and eventually knocked itself out for good. <3

[iedzerkvasu]

"Fires in Heaven" is such an awesome album that I have listened it for 100+ times, and I still can't get enough of it. In this album there are very, very beautiful songs, and DieWithMe is one of my favourites. You have a great talent, and I very much hope that you will continue to explore the beauty of sound and keep making new music! I can't wait to hear it!

[qybumrx]

Oh won't you lay down with me
Let yourself be free
Hold your breath don't breath
Just believe in me
Trust you're coming with me
We can finally be free

[michalwy]

1 year sober off opioids, but the feeling I might be gone soon still persists, but fuck it I only have this one live and i will let myself be free. staying strong till the end is all it matters!

[megood]

I'm not a drug addict, but the clip hooked me with the fact that it personifies me last year. I've been lonely all my life, and for a second it seemed to me that I found people who understand and maybe even like me, but it all ended so quickly, since my social skills leave a lot to be desired and a few months ago I was diagnosed with schizotypal disorder and other, I am addicted to the past like drugs, I cant forget everything that happened to me, I get drunk in hope that I will finally accept the past and move on, It doesn't help. This world has come up with a cure for drug addiction, but alas, there is no cure for loneliness yet ..

[maiconschlosserr]

Nothing like waking up with a new SALEM video

[kmprssr]

Something about the when those synths come in, and the imagery of the pill getting that glimpse of ecstacy. That chord progression and melody. Truly transports me to another place. Invokes feelings that seem like memories from a time and or place that feels like a bad childhood memory. It feels like all the years of opiate and heroin use, the pain, the destruction, the death. All compacted into one melody. I truly can't explain the feelings. Maybe it's like dying alone slowly in a rainy alleyway while the neon lights of the city reflect all around you. Accepting your fate while the city moves on and you fade to dust. Idk all I know is that very few things on this planet evoke an emotional response similar to salems music. And I hope that others feel the same way

[kantstop]

"this is a certified hood classic"
- every scholar ever