![]() I had him go back and we split all the solos on the record. It was like Marty Friedman showed up and just ripped it. His solo on “Chasing Divinity” was so good, it was amazing. ![]() I was doing guitar solos and the song “Chasing Divinity” came up and I couldn’t figure out what to play and I was like “You know what? I’m gonna ask Sebastian,” who’s a good friend of mine. Art had just been transitioned out of there and I’m like “Oh, he’s probably not doing anything.” So I called him and I was like “I know this is short notice, we’re doing a record next week. What ended up happening was Bloodlet was going through a lineup shift to the lineup that they have now, which doesn’t include Art. He’s always been super happy with little things I need with Integrity over the years, so we booked a block of time to just go over there and figure it out. We decided to go to Landmine Studios which is in Ewing, New Jersey and my friend Len records out of there. That was it, it was going to be me, Jarvis and Mike was going to sing. … I found out he lives like a street away from me, so we started getting together and hammering out the songs. Jarvis and I used to work at a guitar store together, fifteen-something years ago, when Pulling Teeth and Misery Index were both kind of starting out. That’s kind of the impetus between picking everybody. I’d just bring a bag of riffs and lay them out, cobble together what’s going to happen, but when it came time to actually lay down the record, my three rules were that I wanted to have everybody on the record be somebody I’d never made a record with before, I wanted it to be recorded somewhere I’d never worked before and I wanted all the songs to follow the verse/chorus structure. Originally, I wrote the songs over the pandemic, whether it was a drum machine or sometimes I’d get together with Joshy from Ilsa. These were people you had kind of hand picked for these positions, right? Once you and Mike realized that the collaboration was going so well, you recruited Jarvis, Sebastian and Arthur. That was the lynchpin that turned End Reign from one song into an actual, full-on production. I sent it to him because we both love Best Wishes, it was an awesome fit. We just wanted to write a song that sounded like Cro-Mags’ Best Wishes album but faster. It was something that came together, that song “House of Thieves” that was the Decibel flexi. Since the ’90s, I’ve always been a big All Out War fan. We’ve been friends but we’ve never done music together. Had you worked with him before or was this just happy circumstances? Mike Score was the second person who got involved with End Reign. Stephen King wrote a book about writing and he was talking about how he writes two or three pages a day no matter how bad it is because that’s how he gets his ideas out. Four bands kind of stemmed out of the whole thing, because it was a lot of fun.Ī group of songs fit into the lexicon of what I wanted to do with End Reign. This was a more conscious effort to write songs that had a full-on beginning, verse, chorus, which was kind of cool. I kind of adopted that.Įven with Integrity’s writing process, it’s always been a thing where I write micro-songs, cobble the best parts together into real things. I remember something Gene Simmons said something once where you write a song a day and if it sucks, it sucks, but that’s how you find the good stuff. When you went into it, were you trying to write a record or did you just want to write these songs? This album stems out of your one-song-a-day writing project during the pandemic. ![]() This interview has been edited for length and clarity. The Way of All Flesh Is Decay is out now on Relapse. You can read the proper story of how that record was made in the latest issue of Decibel but Romeo had more to say than fit in the pages of the print magazine. After collaborating on one song with All Out War vocalist Mike Score, the pair recruited Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index), Art Legere (ex-Bloodlet) and Sebastian Phillips (Noisem, Exhumed) to record their debut album, The Way of All Flesh Is Decay. ![]() End Reign formed out of humble beginnings, with guitarist Domenic Romeo (Pulling Teeth, Integrity, A389 Recordings) challenging himself to write new songs daily during the height of the pandemic. ![]()
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