Shaddix: That's about confronting your demons. It's one thing to know you have a problem - that's the first thing. The next thing is dealing with it, confronting it and coming to terms with whatever it is. I wrote "Black Clouds" in the darkest, most depressed state I've ever been in in my whole life. In the original lyrics I was talking straight suicide. But I changed that because I came out of it and I was feeling better.
Esperance: We can all connect with what Coby's saying here because he wrote a lot about things all four of us went through in the process of being on tour - traveling, being a band, being brothers. "Black Clouds" started out during Ozzfest. I just sat down at the back of the bus, started the song, and stayed there until I finished the whole thing. All these ideas came about putting strings on it, so when we recorded it, we had an orchestra come in. They played the song, then we cut up what they'd done and put it into really cool parts. We also used 12-string acoustic guitars and this real rhythmic, galloping bass line and drum beat. It was a creative challenge for us, but we got to watch it grow into something and say, "Wow, we've never done anything like this before." It's a different kind of song - it reminds me of a rock opera.
Shaddix: That's about confronting your demons. It's one thing to know you have a problem - that's the first thing. The next thing is dealing with it, confronting it and coming to terms with whatever it is. I wrote "Black Clouds" in the darkest, most depressed state I've ever been in in my whole life. In the original lyrics I was talking straight suicide. But I changed that because I came out of it and I was feeling better. Esperance: We can all connect with what Coby's saying here because he wrote a lot about things all four of us went through in the process of being on tour - traveling, being a band, being brothers. "Black Clouds" started out during Ozzfest. I just sat down at the back of the bus, started the song, and stayed there until I finished the whole thing. All these ideas came about putting strings on it, so when we recorded it, we had an orchestra come in. They played the song, then we cut up what they'd done and put it into really cool parts. We also used 12-string acoustic guitars and this real rhythmic, galloping bass line and drum beat. It was a creative challenge for us, but we got to watch it grow into something and say, "Wow, we've never done anything like this before." It's a different kind of song - it reminds me of a rock opera.