“Good eye! You're the first person to bring that up – it is a dry record! It is a band in a room playing rock 'n' roll. Sonically, it’s very upfront and in your face – there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of reverb at all. That riff just makes you want to run through a wall.”Ī lot of this album has that kind of energy. But again, it's a very, very punk-rock song. “I feel like he might have been a little bit influenced by that because it's got that vibe to it. This record is supposed to sound like a band in a room playing music – there's no reverb at all I thought they should have been the biggest rock 'n' roll band of that moment. And I remember us being so bummed they broke up. We got into this band called Dead! from the UK about in 2017 2018 they made one record called The Golden Age of Not Even Trying and they broke up. “That was Eric, actually, who wrote the riff for that. What were the influences on that from a playing perspective? It's got this gang mentality vibe: it feels very punk rock, which I'm a fan of.” that kind of talk about that: ‘ Kill the rich kids/Shoot the sadboy/Stabbed the pretty girl to go buy some new toys.’ The prequel is that: ‘ We've got a ways to go/We need a stepping stone/I guess we're on our own’. You know, and we saw some of that, during all this, people causing chaos for the greater good, but we also saw white kids who live in rich, white suburban neighborhoods, burning down targets and looting on behalf of the plight of someone else, when they really didn't care about the actual subject matter, they just wanted to be in the scene. “Saints of Violence… to me is, take it to the streets, you know what I mean? It feels like people running down the street, causing chaos for the greater good of man. That song, and Army of the Underappreciated are to me just very Ramones, very straight-up, ‘This is the message’. “I love that song because, to me, that's a punk-rock song. Can you tell me what we’re dealing with there? One of the songs I wanted to chat about in particular is The Saints of Violence and Innuendo. We're in every song on this record right now.” Listen, I'm not trying to say we're Miss Cleo or anything, but right now we are in it. “Yeah, it's now – you know, we wrote it a year ago. The album has that retro-futuristic dystopian sci-fi vibe throughout it, but is it actually set in the future, or would you say this is happening right now? we're in every song on this record right now I'm not trying to say we're Miss Cleo or anything, but right now we are in it.
Like, I think you need to Google hate speech!” Myers explains. People can say that they like a certain political candidate, and they're met with, ‘Oh, hate speech’. “The concept is really this kind of dystopian future that we're kind of staring down, and just losing our humanity to be able to talk to each other and have a difference of opinion without going, ‘Oh, you're a bigot’ or, ‘That's hate speech’.