The first thing anyone heard from the new album, and the first record where I did the whole chain myself. The track opens with my screams buried under synths on purpose, so the drop lands harder when the room finally clears. Producing and mixing the same song means you can make a decision like that once and hold it.
Video
The records, on screen
Seven videos across nine years. I produced or engineered every record behind them, and sang on all of them.
The most direct song on the record and the second single. Standard modern metalcore shape on paper, but the verses got as much work as the chorus. Nothing on this album leans on its chorus to survive.
The last thing we put out before disappearing to write the album. Produced and engineered at home, deliberately quicker than anything before it, to prove we could still finish something.
Seven minutes, no structural rules, written during a fairly turbulent couple of years. I produced and engineered it and handed the mix to Randy Leboeuf. Hearing what he did to my session was the closest thing I've had to a masterclass.
Filmed in the snow at Brindabella in the NSW high country. The third single from The Lotus Chapters, and the one that got us the most attention before the album landed.
From The Lotus Chapters, recorded in bushland at Wisemans Ferry. Twelve tracks written as one continuous piece across three chapters. This is the record where I learned what mastering decisions do to arrangement decisions.
Played live, filmed live. The test of any arrangement is whether four people can carry it in a room without the studio helping.
Make the next one
If you have a record and a video budget, tell me about both. The arrangement decides what the camera has to work with.