Hi, this is Vaughan. Over the next couple of weeks I'm going to give my thoughts on each song on the album. I will kick off with the first track "The Fight Goes On"
The first track on the album is the title track. This was the first song recorded for the project and the process was a bit experimental. For this album, Luke handles a lot of the guitar work. Although Luke is our live drummer he is an extremely talented guitar player so we decided to utilise that strength on the album. Basically, Luke and myself starting discussing the follow up to “Reap What You Sow”, which Luke wasn’t involved with. Luke had the idea that his brother Josh could produce for us. Josh was putting together his own studio and what better way to test it than record a Grave Forsaken tune. Josh is a talented drummer, so he and Luke came up with the riffs and structure for this song. Elias, Matt and myself were blown away by the demo and I quickly wrote some lyrics. I was so enthusiastic about the exciting direction of the music that the phrase “The Fight Goes On” came into my head. It really was me saying that this band will always move forward and keep rocking. I also love to write lyrics with political themes as the topic interests me so much. We have a history of this sort of concept with songs like “Reap What You Sow” and “No News... Ain’t Good News”.
The band went in to Josh’s studio and laid down parts for the song and I contributed my vocals. In a very short space of time we had this ripping new tune that felt like the next logical step in the progression of the band. We really enjoyed adding all our trademark solos and gang vocals to the mix, making a very Grave Forsaken sounding tune. Luke and Josh really added tremendous energy to the music and we decided we would expand the project to become our next album. It’s very appropriate that this song is the title track because it really did set the scene for whole album. What was interesting was the way a new direction opened up when we weren’t really sure how to follow up “Reap What You Sow”. We had developed this reputation of improving with each album and I was kind of exhausted after Reap, thinking “how can we top that?”. I knew straight away upon hearing the demo for this song that the direction was set. It was fresh and exciting.
The first track on the album is the title track. This was the first song recorded for the project and the process was a bit experimental. For this album, Luke handles a lot of the guitar work. Although Luke is our live drummer he is an extremely talented guitar player so we decided to utilise that strength on the album. Basically, Luke and myself starting discussing the follow up to “Reap What You Sow”, which Luke wasn’t involved with. Luke had the idea that his brother Josh could produce for us. Josh was putting together his own studio and what better way to test it than record a Grave Forsaken tune. Josh is a talented drummer, so he and Luke came up with the riffs and structure for this song. Elias, Matt and myself were blown away by the demo and I quickly wrote some lyrics. I was so enthusiastic about the exciting direction of the music that the phrase “The Fight Goes On” came into my head. It really was me saying that this band will always move forward and keep rocking. I also love to write lyrics with political themes as the topic interests me so much. We have a history of this sort of concept with songs like “Reap What You Sow” and “No News... Ain’t Good News”.
The band went in to Josh’s studio and laid down parts for the song and I contributed my vocals. In a very short space of time we had this ripping new tune that felt like the next logical step in the progression of the band. We really enjoyed adding all our trademark solos and gang vocals to the mix, making a very Grave Forsaken sounding tune. Luke and Josh really added tremendous energy to the music and we decided we would expand the project to become our next album. It’s very appropriate that this song is the title track because it really did set the scene for whole album. What was interesting was the way a new direction opened up when we weren’t really sure how to follow up “Reap What You Sow”. We had developed this reputation of improving with each album and I was kind of exhausted after Reap, thinking “how can we top that?”. I knew straight away upon hearing the demo for this song that the direction was set. It was fresh and exciting.