We've always wanted to put a Halloween track out. It's always a fun time - I guess I always think of it as rock Christmas. In my hometown everyone used to dress up in rocky horror gear and get out to the rock clubs. This track for us tho was the one, but it wasn't planned that way.

We had a studio session already booked with James [LeRock Loughrey] over at the Tilehouse Studios. We planned to record a few of the new ones, but I had this riff going on in my head that week leading up to it. It was choppy and climbing and although it wasn't in the plan for recording, it was a bit contagious and I ended up adding some lyrics in here and there anyway. The night before the recording session, I kind of felt like we should try to give it a shot and see if we could record it as well. It kind of meant the girls would be going in blind if we did though. I put down an instrumental guide guitar and added it to the other guides anyway. There weren't lyrics on the guide track at this stage. They weren't all written and I didn't have a verse riff yet.

I messaged Violet that night (the night before the session) and asked if she'd be up for trying out drums for it. She was up for it still and although there were no lyrics on it, we were thinking a horror-pop theme. In the studio it was a case of getting all the tracks done first and if we had a bit of time we could try something out for the new one. It looked like we might not have enough time, I had to nip off to the shop just as we finished the main tracks. By the time I got back about 15 mins later, Violet had already recorded the drums to the guide! They sounded epic, so I recorded the guitars on the Blackstar amp setup, just using my Boss pedals and a Big Muff that was in the studio, and put guitar down along with the other tracks. The intro riff hit me right there and I made the solo up on the spot, bizarrely it just worked.

That week we headed over to James's personal studio to record vocals, bass and backing vocals. It all came together. Ali absolutely nailed it, like a pro, and despite us never having played the track at a rehearsal yet, we just all got to it and it felt really solid as a track. With all the lyrics and parts in, it was definitely the Halloween track we were one day hoping to release. The timing was short though to Halloween, but we planned with Criminal and got the video session in with Mike Gripz for the same week. For us, it was another track, like No Trace, where it was written during the recording process. I guess just sometimes having that session booked in is inspiring enough to more music done. It's definitely going to be going on the next EP.