Song Details
- Album Release Date: 2012
- Genre: grindcore
Song Meaning of “Mortuaria” by Impetigo
Mortuaria is a highly unsettling and haunting track from Impetigo’s album Horror of the Zombies. The song is a grim tale about the inevitable march to death, with the words “sed portamus mori” echoing throughout the song to emphasize its central message. The music itself is somber and dark, with a driving mid-tempo beat and despair-filled lyrics that evoke a sense of dread and fear of the unknown. The lyrics open with a description of a graveyard, and then goes on to speak about a funeral procession passing through the graveyard, calling it a ‘doom’ or ‘fate’. The song then brings the listener further into the graveyard as it becomes increasingly darker and we get the sense of impending death that lingers in the air. The final lines of the song drive home the point by saying that no one can escape death and we must all “walk the tough path” to our graves.
Mortuaria is about facing death and accepting our own mortality. The message of the song is that life is finite and that we must accept our fate and try to make the best of the time we have. Death is an unavoidable part of life and the knowledge of this fact can be terrifying, but the song encourages us to embrace it and find solace in knowing that we all have the same end. It reminds us to make the most of each day and cherish our time while we still have it.