Taco Bees was a track we recorded for a split with Gaggle of Cocks that never came to fruition. True to our inability to self edit it’s really two shorter rock tunes jammed into one 7 minute track. We wrote and recorded it in 2015 and dug it but also knew it didn’t work with the other stuff we were writing at the time (material which would go on to become III).
Lyrically, the first part of the song is about those 3 am phone calls that come more often the older you get and the realization that your world has always held a certain degree of menace or tragedy, but if you’re lucky, you get to coast through a few decades happy and dumb before it catches up to you.
The second part is a love letter to being in a band and draws a straight line from being a dopey kid riding bikes with your buddies to being a dopey adult pushing aside your responsibilities to ride around in a van playing shows with your buddies.
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released February 5, 2021
Recorded and mixed at Gradwell House Studios by Steve Poponi.
The second ep from Krista van Guilder's latest band, Benthic Realm, features four of her heaviest tracks to date, topped off by one of the best female voices in doom. Sonny92
The first track, aside from being a great title, immersed me in an immense journey at 5am. Epic layers upon layers of ultimate ‘devastation’ as another review suggested. Totally engulfing. Solitude & Sin