Brian McTernan

It's not the same thing as darkest hour, but it's, it's, it's adjacent enough to be like, Oh, Whoa.

And then, um, also silosis was on, uh, on the tour and they're, sick i mean just they're very similar to darkest hour but also not but just enough where you're like damn oh oh yeah oh that riff you know and so they were super cool to be around and then also uh decapitated again maybe um not the same flavor of death metal as darkest hour but they the technicality the tightness the clen the the the precision in which they execute such hard music you know um and also exodus who's an older band but is doing the magic trick that everyone tries to do which is not only surviving but feeling fresh and also nostalgic at the same time you know And if I'm going to shout out other modern bands that are influential, I would also have to add black value murder, uh, who were at first we met Trevor and Brian.

We, we, we were a touring band and they were a local band and we were a little bit older.

And now that, you know, their story has gone and found its own lore of legends.

And lately I've been shouting out on some of this stuff In Baltimore, there's a ton of shit going on.

I have a very close friend who was in another band called Be Well, who was on Revelation Records and Equal Vision Records.

And the producer of three Darkest Hour records associated Mark of the Judas and The Eternal Return, was the singer of those bands, Brian McTernan.

He's a really good friend of mine, a producer.

And so picking a producer is important because we soak the sound up of the producers.

And, um, I'm very close with, with Brian McTernan because I also play in a band called be well.

And, uh, We've been friends the entire time I've been making records.

And so I will lean on his expertise a lot to be a shadow producer for some kind of feedback.

Where'd you do it? Who'd you do that with, by the way? That

was Brian McTernan.

Of course it was.

At his studio in Maryland.

Um, with the exception of Fancy Color.

Like, that one we recorded Silent Days with Brian McTernan.

We spent a whole week, like, living in his little, like, apartment that he had set up for the bands and r- and r-record.

For this it was, I mean, a, a bit of a different recording experience in the sense that, um, I think collectively we probably spent a week on it, but it was very much broken up, right? Like, we did bass and drums one weekend, and then three weeks later or whatever we did, you know, like, like guitars.