Updates on the next few songs

That's right, the next FEW songs.

We're writing and writing and practicing and writing. The new stuff is coming along nicely. ED-209 is the most Lich King-ey of the new stuff, and by that I mean that it's the most in keeping with the goofy fun feel and the familiar song structure. The new stuff is darker, it's faster, it's a bit more influenced by the evil mexican / southern californian bands. I know I've complained about that style but I tried adding some to the mix one day- just a taste- and we liked how it sounded. Consider us influenced. Slightly. You'll hear it.

There are three songs in the hopper right now. The first two are ready to go, pending inclusion of their respective celebrity guest stars' tracks. The first one to make it through will likely be the cover of a thrash classic featuring our pal Michael Ellero of Canada's RAZORWIRE popping in for a solo.

The second song is called TERROR CONSUMES. This is a dark one and a departure for us in both songwriting and lyrics. The music is, as mentioned, a bit more mexi-thrashy than our regular fare. The lyrics are going beyond monsters and machines and 80's action flicks, into our first forays into mental anguish. Have you noticed how most bands' first albums are all about serial killers and thrashing, and the third is a lot more introspective with songs about paranoia, fear and control? We're definitely feeling that kind of maturity and this song will be the first of that sort. TERROR CONSUMES is specifically about fear.

What mind can't devour itself?
Atrophied ego, degenerate cells
Just beyond the curtain of dark
An unknown number, an unseen attack
Suggestions of something beyond
Moving about in dark attic rooms
Subconscious thought working against
Your own will
Terror Consumes

I don't want to mention who the celebrity guest vocalist is for this one, mostly because the celebrity guests tend to back out and I'd like to keep from hyping someone this good. The song was written with his style in mind and if he does it, it's going to sound cooooool.

The third is one we're maybe only halfway through writing, and it's a long way off from being ready. This one's WASTE. It's about being crushed by your own shortcomings... or at least it's about me yelling at myself for mine.

I have a dozen or so riffs waiting to see if they'll make it into future songs, and a handful of titles and ideas. One will be A STORM OF SWORDS, based on the book of the same name. Another that's definitely being done eventually is LICH KING III. Doing sort of an Overkill thing with that one... sequels. The ongoing tale of the mascot in his bid to rule everything.

There you go, your nipples are now sufficiently erect from all this teaser info about the third album. I can't say when it'll be done. It'll probably be early 2010, squeezing this into 2009's probably a little unrealistic. As to the title? I dunno. I know what I'm doing for the cover art... but I'm not saying.

-Tom
March 2009