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H i g u y s , w e l c o m e t o V E N T S ! H o w h a v e y o u b e e n ? Chris-Hi VENTS! We've been doing well. C a n y o u t a l k t o u s m o r e a b o u t y o u r l a t e s t s i n g l e F o r e v e r W a r ? Ethan-Forever War is about the way humans seem to seek out conflict as way to keep themselves busy, If you are constantly fighting someone else you don’t have to focus on yourself. But after you have killed everyone else there is only one person left to destroy. w h a t ’ s t h e s t o r y b e h i n d t h e t i t l e ? Ethan-All empires eventually turn to ashes, sooner or later, kings and plebs, everything burns. H o w w a s t h e r e c o r d i n g a n d w r i t i n g p r o c e s s ? Very Smooth. We recorded this album with Bill Nieman at Rainbow Trout Studios in Spokane. The songs were all finished except for Wilderness of Mirrors. That one was mostly written and recorded in the studio. It was a smooth process. We all have good chemistry with each other and it flowed well. This is the third recording with Chris-The inspiration behind the music was when I Bill and the pairing with Topon mastering turned out to (Chris, Guitar) was driving between Spokane and be the dream team. Seattle in the dead of winter and I was transiting Stevens Pass. Traffic had ground to a halt and I was W h a t w a s i t l i k e t o w o r k w i t h T o p o n D a s a n d h o w d i d entertaining myself by randomly flipping through t h a t r e l a t i o n s h i p d e v e l o p ? musical genres and I went through pretty much Ethan-We have always been fans and were lucky everything from Beach Boys to Immortal. I thought to enough to open for Fuck the Facts a few times here in myself "I wonder what would happen if I mixed some Spokane. They caught our set and thanked us for upbeat riffs with some Norwegian black metal. playing an we invited them to our drummer at the times food truck, Big Reds. After that we became friendly that A n y p l a n s t o r e l e a s e a v i d e o f o r t h e s i n g l e ? led to us asking Topon to master the record an Ethan-We will be debuting a video for a different song compose the interludes on the album to tie everything called No Hope=No problem around the time together. He was amazing work with. Along with our Throneburner drops on July 21 st. long-time producer Bill Nieman the made the album sound exactly how we wanted. T h e s i n g l e c o m e s o f f y o u r n e w a l b u m T h r o n e B u r n e r -