Track By Tracks: EVA - Opia (2024)
1. Bump:
Moi (Guitarist): When coming up with Bump I wanted it to be a bouncy and groovy song. I wanted listeners to feel the music, feel it in their body. I wanted to give the listeners the impulse to slam dance anywhere anytime.
2. Crystal Ball:
Austin (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar): This song I had in my journal written forever and never could find what I really wanted to do with it. After a good half year or so we went back to it and just started with the chorus that I had written and the main rift, and slowly started to piece everything together. Since we had such a hard time in the beginning writing it, it was one of the last songs we wrote. It came out really good though and I’m pretty happy with what came out.
3. Phlegm:
Austin (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar): From the start with this one we kind of knew we wanted something with a hip-hop beat. I was hesitant at first though with rapping, I was not sure if it would go well with the whole stigma about nu-metal today. But, I just decided to screw it and if I wanted to do it, then I’d do it. I think with TikTok too, people opened up to nu metal and it’s definitely more accepted than it used to be.
4. Marching:
Austin (Vocals/ Rhythm Guitar): When we were first making the song I knew I wanted something very dark sounding. I wanted to capture something along those lines. “Marching” is essentially about the horrors of war, but I wanted to make it sound also relatable as well. It’s kind of my attempt of making something from the outside seem so dark and bleak that you may not come out of whatever you’re going through BUT, towards the end of the song there’s one glimmer of hope that you can reach onto and pull yourself out of. Kind of to show that the listener or anyone, can get through whatever they are going through- they just have to keep their head up.
5. Echos:
Austin (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar): This was our attempt at making hardcore/post-hardcore. I’m really into bands like Blessthefall, Saosin, and old-school Bring Me the Horizon. So I wanted to pay homage to those guys that I really enjoy listening to.
6. Whispers In the Fog:
Moi (Guitarist): I had the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack in mind when helping write Whispers In The Fog, (the title was actually a play on Silent Hill), that sort of vibe just fits with the music, and Whispers in The Fog just fits with that sort of vibe. The feeling of wandering someplace empty of without any signs of life. Alone with a cigarette between your lips following distant echoes in the mist- not really sure what you're looking for, or even hoping to find. Real af.
7. Opia:
Austin (Vocals/ Rhythm Guitar): With the title track we wanted something very easy and accessible to someone who may have not heard our music before. It captures kind of what the whole album is about in one song. For Opia, it really does have all the elements that we put into the record that made it unique and combined into one. You’ve got the rapping, heavy breaks, creepy melodies- it’s all there. All while still being a fairly calmer song than a lot of the others on the record so it makes for an easy listening experience.
8. Paradigm:
Moi (Guitarist): Paradigm was my attempt at writing shoegaze. I haven't really listened to Shoegaze before or anything else like it during this time. My fiancée would play more of it on drives to band practice and Austin had made me a playlist to study and had a lot of Deftones. I would really let the music sink in and inspire new ways for me to write the melodies in our music.
9. Skin:
Austin (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar): This was the first song as a band wrote together and funny enough is our most popular at the moment. We dropped it as a single earlier in the year and wanted to come out with a boom. The song starts pretty abruptly which catches people off guard but brings them into what our style is. It’s in your face, and it’s loud.
10. RE: Rebirth:
Austin (Vocals/Rhythm Guitar): Our last song on the album is actually sort of a remake of an older song that we released called “Rebirth”. When we first wrote the original, we felt it could have had more but really struggled with what to do with it, so we kind of rushed it out because at the time we hadn’t had much material out and wanted to get into the local scene. Then, we got around to making new parts to the song and wanted to reach the song's full potential and give it the justice we felt it needed.
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