Mourning is a process of society. It is work we must all do. It is through the work of mourning that we are able to incorporate our past and integrate its content with the work of the political. If we fail at this work, we are rendered hopeless and impotent.
Modern society is infected with a sickness.
This sickness produces symptoms which demand that the work of mourning remain incomplete. This sickness obfuscates and destroys the material connections between people and replaces them with blind allegiance to an ideology or to a leader. Guitarist Matthew Maher conceived The Mourning Sickness in the early 1980s. The Mourning Sickness stretches accross the horizons of rock music. Never content to simply imitate the formulas heard on the radio, its members strive to produce truly progressive music.