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The song first appeared in advance of Crise de Foie and was recorded with Tim Green at Louder Studios, which suits the band’s dense, volatile sound. Even the title is a useful map: “dirge” suggests weight, repetition, and descent, but “uncontrollable” introduces motion, panic, and a refusal to stay neatly inside any one form. That tension is audible in the track itself. Trough do not present heaviness as something monolithic; they make it twitch, lurch, and splinter. The guitars feel corroded rather than merely loud, the rhythm section pushes with nervous precision, and the vocal presence sounds embedded inside the disorder, not safely above it. There is humor in the bleakness, too, or at least a kind of grim self-awareness that keeps the song from becoming self-serious. “uncontrollable dirge” is not elegant in a traditional sense, but it is sharply composed. 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