Track By Tracks: Since The Fire - Remains Embraced (2026)

Cuntrol, lyrically, it's one of our most aggressive tracks. It is aimed at a type of individual, as opposed to any specific one. This song is about people in power who constantly abuse it; corrupt individuals who delight in having power over others with a complete disregard of environment and self-awareness. I include brief commentary on the damage inflicted on the victims, and include a small allusion to the belief that things will change for the better.

Noose is about the ideas in life that we get hung up on. I sort of shift perspective throughout the song, starting with the desire to be remembered versus the desire to support others in what they need, seeking help for my own needs, navigating confusion, and fixation on the ethereal. Concepts like forgiveness and forgetting, and where they might lead, are pondered. If we get what we give, do we receive forgiveness when we give it? I also discuss the concept of forgetting, being equated with negligence, and how I seek a balance between those concepts and all others, as is my preference. I finish with pains of the present and the past disrupting balance, followed by the word, "Gone," indicating that it will all disappear sooner or later (which is a small echo of Cuntrol).

Brutaful is a comedic shift from what I usually write. The simple explanation, it's about having fun. The last words of the song articulate that: "Don't take life so seriously." As for the longer version of the explanation... Prior to our former guitarist Bryan presenting us with this song idea, the song title presented itself. Following a party with obnoxious amounts of drinking, the next day, I was leaving the trailer I slept in, and Brad was behind me. I accidentally let a fart slip out, and it was a particularly awful one. It hit him in the face, and his response was one of horrendous amusement. He grimaced and almost gagged, exclaiming, "That's brutaful!" And I immediately said that I needed to make that a song title. Many of the lyrics are quotes from other people, Brad more than most, with some creative verbiage of my own.

Whispers is another contemplative one, acknowledging phases I've been through, and how I was waiting for another major change to happen. I also speak about expecting major changes in our world and humanity. I go on to comment on some of the baffling realities we live in, and expect the unexpected. I finish with statements about initiating changes if we feel they are necessary and ways to go about that; breaking some patterns is necessary for world and self improvement, and the belief that if history repeats itself, it will keep changing the pattern until it eventually is unrecognizable.

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