Actor Nicolas Cage's son, Weston Cage, who had gone by the stage name "Arcane" in his Hollywood-based black metal band Eyes of Noctum, has offered up a new solo single featuring Breaking Benjamin's Keith Wallen.
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For fans who have followed Wes Cage throughout his musical career, there will be a noticeable lack of blast beats around these parts, taking a more tamed approach with his new solo offering "The Wolf," co-written with guitarist Keith Wallen, currently of Breaking Benjamin.
"I hope this song resonates with the masses and is embraced as a symbolic work of art that encourages triumph and hope," Cage says in a statement provided to Blabbermouth. "'The Wolf' is about the spiritual dichotomy of the higher and lower self."
The Vicente Cordero-directed music video that arrives along with the new track shows Cage playing "two contrasting incarnations of the same character. His lower self, in his case, is one of destitution, zero self-control, addiction, oblivion and failure, while his higher self is depicted through a being who is of power, elevation, awareness, organization and overall success," he explains. "Both forces live in us all."
"The music we're doing is part of my essence and always needed to be released," Cage adds. "Lyrically, 'The Wolf' touches on the dichotomy between the higher and lower selves. One represents strength, intelligence, organization, responsibility; the other, destitution, failure, depression, sadness."
As for Wallen's part, the guitarist has never been a stranger to collaboration, working in the past with the likes of Saint Asonia, Fuel, We Came as Romans, Saving Abel, and more.
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