A year later, the project found its true purpose. Efrim Menuck’s dog Wanda died while Godspeed were out on tour in the late 90s. His wanted to write a piece of music about it, but Godspeed wasn’t the appropriate forum for expressing something so personal and relatively fleeting. “I would say that Godspeed often feels like a very large, very impressive sea freighter, whereas Mt. Zion is more like a little motor boat,” he told Pop Matters in 2014. “It has much less internal inertia so it can move much more easily. If the ship named Godspeed sees an iceberg ahead, more often than not, it can’t
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