This Place You Know grapples with the weight of themes like isolation, depression, and loss – all amplified by driving bass lines, emphatic guitar riffs and unwavering drumming performed by the band. From the first moments of album opener “I Feel So,” the stakes are made clear by the anchoring lyric ‘this place you know, sometimes it hides the truth and lets people go” – One Step Closer is attempting to resolve the unresolvable anguish of moving on from everything you once knew.