In the tense intro to 'Heimdalsgate Like aPromethean Curse,' [Barnes] begs, 'mood shift, shift back to good again,' only to beimmediately answered by his arsenal of good mood instruments. On command,the song shifts into a sunny lament.

'Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse' is thehigh point of [Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?], both the catchiest songon Hissing Fauna and the most confessional. It plays like a jacked-upjump-rope rhyme, recounting Barnes’ battle with his own brain chemistry. Thisone hits home, because anyone who’s at all complex has been there, wanting withevery ounce of our consciousness to be okay but just getting stuck in the samedestructive thought cycles.