The album has been in the making for years now, the first studio appointment atHicktown was planned for early 2019, back then with Michael "Mikey" Bensch at thedrums. Due to illness, a new appointment was planned for April 2020, this time thedate was canceled due to Corona. In November 2020 the recording could finallytake place.As far as songwriting is concerned, the Monkeys don't have a set process, but mostof the time Florian "Flo" R??le arrives with a great riff or apreggio, which is the basisof the song. During rehearsals everyone brings in their ideas, where should it getmore brutal, where should be breaks etc. Istvan Ladanyi then writes the lyrics to it,and the song gets better with every rehearsal ...The texts are a call to wake up, to break out, an end to foul compromises and an endto clinging to false values and self-deception. We're all alive but dead. Wake upasshole now! Smash these keepsakes as they ki...
