SEVER and Static Heir beneath the stone and the roots. Rich and poor, the nameless and the adored, all return to dust.

The old self dies. Not repaired, not restored, but reborn.

Mistaking the voice that kept you small for the voice of God. A song about religious trauma and breaking free: the chain was never holy.

The album’s title track, from the story of Micaiah and King Ahab: four hundred prophets, four hundred lies. A furious song about power that wants a mirror, not a prophet.

Elijah after the fire fell from heaven: victorious one day, running for his life the next. God wasn’t in the fire, the earthquake or the wind, but in the stillness that followed.

SEVER and Prof. Corton as two sides who split the same book and each claim the true word. While they scream across the table, the real enemy stands behind them both.

SEVER’s first ballad: Peter’s denial. Warming his hands at the enemy’s fire, he swears three times he never knew the man, until the rooster crows.

SEVER and Fragmented raise the Tower of Babel: one voice, one will, one god, one tower. Then the language breaks and the tower falls.

Inspired by Jacob wrestling through the night. A fight against yourself, the dark and the voice that keeps calling.

Born beneath the pressure, raised inside the cage, fed fear until fear became rage. Strip everything away and one thing remains.