Thrice / Vheissu

[Otto]

    Thrice titles upcoming album, fall touring plans

    We have decided to name the new record, "Vheissu," and I will
    attempt to summarize why. The one thing we knew was that we wanted
    to have a one word title. I brought Vheissu to the table a long time
    ago because I had always thought it was a beautiful word, and it had
    no definite meaning in the book it is from (V by Thomas Pynchon
    <p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.>, though that is not the word's
    origin), but was more a loose collection of myths. Something else
    that I think we all appreciated about the name, is that it is not
    loaded for most people. They will see it, or hear it, and it will
    not have any meaning right away, and therefore it can simply come to
    represent the songs on this record and to title them without
    coloring them, almost as a number would. But then beneath the
    surface, there are a a lot of interesting, if obscure, references to
    Vheissu in the book (and in critiques of the book) which could serve
    to inform aspects of the artwork, and create a general sense of
    mystery, which is something we all value I think. Below are some
    some of these references, but I will first talk about some of the
    meanings which we have extracted from them. One of the references
    speaks of Vheissu being a code name for Vesuvius, the volcano.
    Virgil cites Vesuvius as the entrance to the underworld, and in the
    book this is fleshed out and it is hinted at that there is a ancient
    race of people, who have access to underground tunnels that lead
    underneath all nations of the earth.

    Riley noted how he felt that we are now (and always it seems)
    standing at the verging of many different tunnels or pathways that
    lead to completely different places. Riley named this phenomenon
    "Standing at Vheissu," which the more I think about seems to hold
    the same sentiment as Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken," but
    with the darker imagery of underground labyrinths (and who doesn't
    like underground labyrinths.) In the poem, the speaker chooses a
    path, and laments the knowledge that he will probably never be back
    at this point, to make a different decision, or to see where the
    other path led, but notes that his decision will have "made all the
    difference," though what difference no one will ever know. Two other
    ideas stuck out to me. One being that I see the tunnels underneath
    us all, as a metaphor for another reality that is quite close to us,
    but without our knowledge of it most of the time, ready at any
    moment to break though and interrupt our ideas of what reality is. A
    metaphor for the possibility or miracles in short. In the book it is
    said of the tunnels that "below the glittering integument of every
    foreign land there is a hard dead-point of truth."

    Also I liked one critics etymological dissection of the word Vheissu
    when he says this. "If "Vheissu" encodes anything, it is a pun--"Wie
    heisst du?," which is German for "What is your name?" or "What are
    you called?" This seems appropriate since one of the themes
    developing in my lyrics for the record is the ways in which we
    define ourselves. I think a key to who we see ourselves as is names;
    both given and those we give ourselves, both domestic and other
    worldly. The ways in which we define ourselves and ultimately live
    are, I think, heavily influenced by the names we receive, and the
    names we give to others. Hopefully this sheds some light on the
    reasons for choosing Vheissu. Since we got it from print we really
    don't know if there is a correct way to say it, but we say it
    "vee-sue." There is a lot more out there to dig through if you want.
    Also, as a warning, the book "V" is very strange, and not a very
    fast read.
    http://www.punknews.org/article.php?sid=12864&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

    Comments:
    1. This band is always getting better with every release but that is
    a horrible album title!
    2. Love the title, hate the band.
    3. Pretentious assholes.


	

	
		
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