Eternal (Commentary)

Joachim Speidel:

"Eternal" with Telle Smith. This is actually one of the most interesting tracks as far as how it happened. I remember we were good friends with like Alex from Mako. And they made a track for the League of Legends Worlds Tournament in 2018.

Stuart Brookes:

I think it was called "Rise."

Joachim:

Yeah, it's a banger. Amazing track. And then I heard this dude who was singing these crazy, like, backing vocals in the chorus. And it was Telle from the Word Alive. So I DM'd him and I'm like, "Yo, we're working on this track for our album. It's kind of like a similar vibe." And he heard it and he was like, "This is awesome." And then we started writing, and we were like voice-noting each other because COVID happened. You know, as we were like trying to finish the track, so we were just voice-noting, FaceTiming, and eventually it all came together. And the track is basically, it's a battle song. It has like this spiritual angle to it.

Stuart:

Kind of like a war anthem, almost.

Joachim:

Yeah, and it's basically just like about fighting. And at some point, I remember like, I was talking to Telle and it was like - you know, the narrators are this group of people and they're outnumbered. But they're still gonna fight. It's kind of like this Spartan mentality, almost. So it's really cool, and it's just like facing adversity, but a more like, literal, like war song type vibe.

Stuart:

You'll hear these big, kinda orchestral, almost war drum type things that are just going for almost the whole song.

Joachim:

And he's really well-known for just screaming, so I was like, "You know, just go off here, and we'll just like–"

Stuart:

Yeah, this one turned out really cool.