2011 MTV Video Music Awards

Death Cab For Cutie's 'Meet Me At The Equinox'

Listen to 'Meet Me on the Equinox - Death Cab For Cutie's New Moon theme

07:27, Monday, 14 September 2009

One of the biggest moments of VMA Weekend has come courtesy of Death Cab for Cutie, who didn't even appear on the show itself. But the band did premiere their brand-new single, Meet Me on the Equinox - taken from one of the most hotly anticipated soundtracks of the year: The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

The forthcoming video for Meet Me on the Equinox is said to feature Robert Pattinson's vampire character Edward Cullen's break up with Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), leaving her to find comfort in the company of her werewolf friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner).

Even though frontman Ben Gibbard admitted to MTV News that he hadn't read all of the books in the Twilight series, the song manages to capture the mood and tone of the story.

"Let our bodies intertwine/ But always understand/ That everything ends," Gibbard sings in the chorus of Equinox, which could easily be a line said by Edward in the film.

But Gibbard said that the tune is more about his personal life than Stephenie Meyer's fictional world.

"The song at its core is just about meeting another halfway, because life is very short, because there's only a brief period of time to really connect with people, and that it's important to recognize that," he said (of course, for Edward and his kind, life isn't that short).

"I just wanted something that kind of tonally matched the story and the scenes within the film, so they could kind of be put alongside but not be telling a narrative you're watching on the screen."

New Moon opens in theatres on November 20, while the soundtrack (which is rumored to feature contributions from Muse, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and Bon Iver, among others) will be available October 20.