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ASTAROTH

This track started out as a purely electronic track. We developed it specifically for the album as we thought there was good potential for an album opener in. Adding guitars and real drums worked a treat.

JEFF LEOPARD

This track was born from chopping up bits of Astaroth and jamming over it. A lot of our writing involves remixing disregarded loops. The song title is awful, we have no shame.

HONGLIDAY

Our first track with any discernible vocals. Although sampled and heavily processed! Turns into a Sabbath meltdown at the end, devil horns and all.

LASERS

Something we’ve worked on for a while, it’s developed a lot over the years from playing it live. It feels darker now, we like dark.

RHYTHM IS A MISERY

We wrote this initially, then took it apart recently and put it back together again. With the help of all the kings horses (and all the kings men).

G IS FOR JAILE

Another daft title there. Listening back, this track is essentially 3 tracks really. We’ve just melded it into one. I think it works. The subby breakdown is almost Diplo-esque.

WINDOW FX

We should have called this one ‘Mario Waltz’.

BROMDEN

Bromden is our favourite track to play live, it’s got a good build of energy and it’s a stomper. Named after the Native American from the Ken Kesey novel ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’. Yes, we read books.

SKYWORTH

It’s got a riff that’s a little bit Zappa, we switched it up a bit for the album and adding some grimy synth parts.

CRUTCHES

We’ve come full circle with this one. Crutches was one of the first songs we wrote together but it’s very different now. We added a bit of an improv jam to the end originally solely for playing live as a set-ender. But it works really well so we thought we’d put it on the album.