"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster,
for he who stares long into the abyss should know that it stares back at him."
Clint's lyrical motivation for this song.
Musically, the song began with the verse and chorus you here in it today.
Originally, guitar and bass played continuously through the first and second
verse, however, by dropping these two nearly completely out of the vocal sections
in the first verse and just leaving drums and vox it gave this section much
more dynamic and gave the second verse more movement. After trying numerous middle
sections, we decided to run with the existing section which was originally twice
the length, but we agreed to halve it as it the song flowed better with the shorter version.
(the part Flynn sings on out of the second chorus). It was at this point that Clint
decided that he would like to ask Flynn Gower (COG front man) to accompany him on sections of the song.
Originally it was only the " burn " sections out of each of the choruses
that Flynn would sing on, but by the end of the day in the studio, Flynn had laid
vocal sections in the verses, on the burn sections and in the middle section as well.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster, for he who stares long into the abyss should know that it stares back at him." Clint's lyrical motivation for this song.
Musically, the song began with the verse and chorus you here in it today. Originally, guitar and bass played continuously through the first and second verse, however, by dropping these two nearly completely out of the vocal sections in the first verse and just leaving drums and vox it gave this section much more dynamic and gave the second verse more movement. After trying numerous middle sections, we decided to run with the existing section which was originally twice the length, but we agreed to halve it as it the song flowed better with the shorter version. (the part Flynn sings on out of the second chorus). It was at this point that Clint decided that he would like to ask Flynn Gower (COG front man) to accompany him on sections of the song. Originally it was only the " burn " sections out of each of the choruses that Flynn would sing on, but by the end of the day in the studio, Flynn had laid vocal sections in the verses, on the burn sections and in the middle section as well.