Recorded with producer Oz Craggs at Hidden Track Studios, We Were Once Lost sees Kent COVE mob succeed in their aims of writing “heavy, riffy music, with big choruses that make you grab your friends in the middle of a mosh pit and sing along”. Featuring thudding, muscular grooves and stomp paired with ferocious roars aplenty, COVE’s debut is a post-metalcore powerhouse, evoking Ruin/Hollow Crown era-Architects, whilst also drawing from the gene pools of Defeater and While She Sleeps. Bruising riffs and urgent, desperate screams give way to moments of melodic, textured respite, before plunging back into the abyss again – COVE already leaps and bounds ahead of their would-be peers. Following the recent release of debut video “An Honor,” the band give you a behind the scenes insight into it…
BEHIND THE SCENES
“We picked An Honour as our first single because we felt like it was a good all round track to describe our sound: it has riffs, but it also has melody. I think all of us when we first heard back the mixes were thinking “this should be the first single”. It was actually the last song to be written for the EP, we even booked in a separate day when in the demoing stage in order to demo it up, as it was written after all the rest of the songs.
The song is about the 100s of meaningless and purposeless wars and conflict humanity has enacted. People killing other, burning their homes, willing to break their bones or even give their life just because ‘the man/the powers that be’ ordered them to. So we tried to capture this in the video by using smoke to create a war type atmosphere.
We filmed the video at The Forum in Tunbridge Wells with the help of some of the people we know that work there being kind enough to give us the space for the evening! We also had our good friend Nick Suchak of Anabasis Media film the video for us, who we’d known for a while since he filmed music videos for other bands of ours in the past. We shot the video after work from about 6pm to 11pm, so we were all pretty tired by the end of it but were really happy with how it came out, we feel Nick did a great job conveying the idea we had and subtly touching on the themes bought up in the lyrics.
Along with using a smoke machine we also bought smoke grenades that people use in paint balling. They looked great for the video, but ultimately were a bad idea as we completely filled the venue with smoke, to the point where we opened both the fire exit doors and red smoke was pouring out of the doors, which must have looked strange from the streets below! Along with that our sound guy Ben was up at the sound desk being completely smothered in the smoke, but it made for a cool video effect and some cool pictures!”
