Rob Hope

After the release of the Zombie Chronicles, I felt excited about my development as a composer and the opportunities that digital recording presented me to continue to bring the music in my head to reality. I struggled with what to do next thematically; any “story” I could think of seemed to mirror my previous two concepts too closely. After catching some Harry Potter movies late one night while channel surfing, I chose to concentrate my thoughts on what the life cycle of a Phoenix might look like. While not as fully fleshed out or exciting as other ideas, it gave me basic structure and song titles to work backwards from.

The album has grown on me over the years. It is more experimental and progressive, as I applied more learnings from my research. From song to song, I think the album is stronger, but thematically it definitely suffers from a lack of vision. My desire to maintain my “18 songs pre album” standard also put me in a spot where I felt I may have included or written tracks based on that principle alone.

That said, some of my favorite work writing wise is on this album, including Dawn, How Shall I Save Your Soul and The Calm Before.

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