DumDum is the Queen

We posted a new song up from our album coming soon on Sentient Recordings.

The song was written when i was in a hotel room in Canada living there finishing a project called DarkSector cut off from my band mates except through various recordings sent through email.

I remember playing that riff in the middle over and over as storm clouds came in by the windows of the hotel. I was mostly just messing around trying to get better at playing and thinking it sounded kind of good. So I wrote the rest of the song around that riff. It wasn't until we practiced it that I whipped out a slide and did the noise section at the end.

I knew the singing had to be handled mostly by Brian. At the time I watched an Elizabeth Bathory documentary and ended up writing about that from her point of view. I was told i should name my band after a lollipop called dumdum so i decided to name the song dumdum is the queen so that the name dumdum could be used somewhere. I didn't realize that many bands had already written songs about Bathory and there was a band named Bathory till after I did that, I knew someone had to have done it before me, but I didn't realize how many otherwise I probably would've changed the lyrics to something more greek. The part after the middle where the noises are coming in and the guitar and screaming are alone is narrative from Bathory's point of view of dying and not having recieved the coins to cross the ferry into the realm of the dead because no one liked her enough to bury her properly. So the journey at the end is basically meant to be her death and abandonment after being so greedy to have killed innocent women to keep her young and beautiful.

The song recorded sounds like how I envisioned it, the ending was crazy cause I didn't have any real clue except a couple parts that I had notes for mostly at the start of the slide part to the end where the song quiets a bit. It's mostly just improve noise making that turned out being even better then I thought it was going to be. The slide part was done in two takes, i didn't try and fix it or redo it, just two takes and Brian mixed them together masterfully.

I've always been way into Brian's singing and like the transitions of the song and how it developed. Thomas's guitar part at the beginning provides the atmosphere that part needed and ryan's drums on the whole song are great. The toms for the last half of the song and the build ups to downs by Ryan are really good helping to visualize the journey the song is meant to take the listener on.

Anyways, enjoy it as much as I do after hearing the work done. More will be given as we put more songs up!

Best,
Josh