So for the entire album, Generation of Vipers, that we released on February 2nd, it's a concept album that tells the story of Satan through out time. The song "The Recruitment" that we are currently pushing is the third track on the album but second in chronology of the concept story. It's a tad difficult to talk about just one song without addressing how all of the album was developed. Warning I'm about to nerd out here. So we developed the concept idea and then created a storyboard of the entire album flow, rough titles, and decided on how each song should come across. Like, should it be heavy and fast, or slow; erie and doomy.

The Recruitment is the part of the story where, Satan, after realizing he can usurp the Throne of God needs to recruit an army. So with that we wanted to have the song envelop pre-battle angst and anticipation. So Albert, Witt and John set out to come up with the music to hit that chord. When they sent it over to me to put lyrics on it I was blown away. The brutality of the opening riff got me really excited. Then the insane speed the kicks and guitar ran at during the chorus scared the sh*t out of me at first. I wasn't sure what I could come up with at that speed. So I went cut time and shot for epic.

For lyrical inspiration I went to my main sources for the album: Paradise Lost, the Bible, other sources of ancient fiction, and the world's source of partially correct information; Wikipedia.