My heart is wounded on the left side
Your shot hit the mark the first time
Terminal Serious’s Every Time You Cry, written and directed by Elio De Filippo, is a black-and-white miniature about attachment, memory, and the strange prestige people grant to their own pain.
Terminal Serious typically works within dark wave, cold wave, post-punk, and alternative rock, but this new single carries a leaner, more elegant chill. For the first time, the band gives up electric bass in favour of old Roland analogue synthesizers, which lend the track an icier architecture. The guitars have changed as well; with the overdrive switched off, they cut with precision, less brute force than bright blade.
Filmed by Jessica Squillante with a cool debt to silent cinema, the video follows a woman, played with severe delicacy by Federica Mancuso, in the company of…a rock. The object is plain enough to seem comic at first, a mute companion dragged through private space, but De Filippo gives it the gravity of a relic. It is burden, anchor, witness, and beloved nuisance, an earthly mass that turns feeling into something touchable.
Every Time You Cry keeps drama close to the body. Love becomes a wound with aim, striking the heart on the left side and leaving it marked by first contact. Yet the video widens that private injury into a study of habit: how pain becomes company, how company becomes identity, and how difficult it can be to lay down what one has learned in the shape of one’s hands.
“Now that everyone has a camera pointed at them, everything becomes narration, but no one really knows each other anymore,” says the band. “We still believe in video as a tool for inner investigation, a story of the viscera. We’ve focused on the pain of separation, trying to explain how, paradoxically, pain makes us seem special. We grow fond of that boulder that slowly drags us down, because the fear of abandoning it is greater. Until the luckiest can balance the boulders in a delicate “cairn” of good and bad memories, which ultimately make up who we are.”
That explanation could have produced a stiff Symbolist exercise, but De Filippo favours touch, posture, and pressure. The mind becomes a mason, arranging grief into cairns, small architectures of survival made from weight rather than air. Anna Flavia Castaldo’s presence deepens the piece’s sense of doubled interior life, while the stark photography gives each gesture a clean, almost ceremonial force. The band’s literary inspirations, from Virgil, Dante, and Petrarch to the smaller epics of complicated lives, sit quietly beneath the surface. Every Time You Cry treats separation as a material problem: how to lift what hurts, where to set it down, and whether the pile it forms might become sturdy enough to live beside.
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The song belongs to Tear You Away, Terminal Serious’s third full-length album and the follow-up to Fear and Cure, released a year and a half earlier. The record moves through pride and shame, envy and boredom, fear and loneliness, dependence and bodily unease: ordinary states with the power to knock serenity out of reach. Still, the album keeps a narrow path open toward hope and rebirth, treating contradiction as part of daily life rather than a grand exception.
Listen to Every Time You Cry below, and order Tear You Away here.
Tear You Away by Terminal Serious
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