We recording this back in the early Spring when we were touring with Trail of Dead. It's live recordings of 4 songs that have yet to be released- "Burial
Song", "I Was A Desperate Man", "Walk On Water", & "Debtor's Song".
Thanks to Sean for his words and guiding the Daytrotter ship, Johnnie for the illustration, and Mike for his help in the studio. It was a great time and we're really happy with the way these songs turned out. Check out some of Sean's thoughts below and head over to Daytrotter to download the tracks. Thanks!
-MM
Link: Daytrotter Session: Midnight Masses
Words by Sean Moeller
We
are hurting. So we make it go away by feeling everything in that pain,
by letting it consume us in ways that we've never let anything ever
consume us. We are welcoming a full invasion of these awful and
ruthless emotions - the ones that always dress themselves in the
devil's black, with rotten-ed out eyes and breaths that make paint peel
from the gloomiest walls. We want the pain to pour itself on, breaking
us down into the pulp that we are so that when all of the rattling and
tumult is finished, we'll be able to open our eyes again, wipe them
clean of the dirt and the water, start to hear again something other
than a terror-like roar of "healing" or "improvement" and we'll see
that most everything is still as it was when the onslaught began
however long ago it was. This process is not really for everyone, as it
seems to take you to the depths of a body where all of the horrors are
amplified after they've been introduced to you, but then again,
nothing's universal and when someone is broken, they'll try anything to
not be broken anymore, even if the side effects are scary. Here we are
stood, face to face with our darkest thoughts, our regrets and all of
the lingering sadness - the words that will forever be trapped and
unsaid...