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The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sigur Rós, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky and Epitaph Records. Those roots explain a lot about how The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Hotelier, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Algernon Cadwallader, Pianos Become the Teeth and Snowing, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Empire! Empire!, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, reaching back through Sigur Rós and forward to Empire! Empire!. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die is an American rock band formed in Willimantic, Connecticut, in 2009. Following the release of several EPs and splits featuring original lead singer Thomas Diaz, they released their debut LP Whenever, If Ever in 2013 to generally positive reviews. Undergoing a series of roster changes, they proceeded to release a 2014 collaboration with spoken word artist Christopher Zizzamia titled Between Bodies, as well as several full-length records, including Harmlessness in 2015, Always Foreign in 2017, 2021's Illusory Walls, and Dreams of Being Dust in 2025.
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The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die connections
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die grew out of Sigur Rós, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky and Epitaph Records, shares an orbit with The Hotelier, Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Algernon Cadwallader and Pianos Become the Teeth, went on to shape Empire! Empire!. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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