Beneath two Suns
Soundtracking a Fractured Timeline
Beneath Two Suns didn’t begin with a riff. It began with a strange and vivid idea. A time traveler, caught between two timelines, standing under two suns. What followed was some of the most immersive and intense writing the band has done to date.
The music is dense and rhythmic. It hits hard without losing atmosphere. Guitarist Madison Jones played a key role in shaping the riffs that define the song’s structure, and the band worked together to blend modern progressive metal with elements of djent and cinematic post-metal.
The concept of the two suns works on two levels. First, it connects to the narrative world the band is building, where a character is literally displaced in time. But on a deeper level, it speaks to personal duality. One sun represents presence and gratitude. The other represents desire and temptation. The song lives in the tension between what we have and what we want, between stillness and hunger, peace and ambition. There is no simple resolution. The song lets those truths grind against each other.
Precision Under Pressure
The track was recorded across two studios, Into the Void in Ohio and Nostromo Media in Washington. Unlike some previous sessions, the band didn’t record together in a single space. Instead, they had to line up tones, phrasing, and transitions over time and distance.
This made an already technical song even more demanding. The riffs are sharp, complex, and relentless. But that wasn’t the only challenge. Making sure the track felt musical, and not just precise, took hours of careful arrangement and tone sculpting.
“This one was really hard,” the band said. “We never really played it together in a room. So it became about getting these ideas to line up across different sessions, different ears, different spaces. We wanted the aggression, but also the cohesion.”
Alejandro Licano handled the mix, dialing in the weight and clarity needed to let the song breathe. Jamie King returned for mastering, bringing consistency to all three versions while letting each one stand apart.
Guests from Distant Worlds
Each single in the upcoming cycle comes with three versions. The main track, a featured version, and a reimagined B-side. With Beneath Two Suns, this format feels especially vital.
The featured version brings in Kyle Schaefer from Fallujah. His vocal performance is direct and punishing, layered into the existing structure with precision. He doesn’t just float above the track. He lives in it. His screams cut through without overpowering the arrangement.
The B-side, Nocturne for the Forgotten Future, takes a different path. Trumpet by John Heckathorn of Antediluvian Projekt creates a haunted, post-apocalyptic soundscape. The tempo drops. The instrumentation softens. What remains is a distant echo of the original, stretched out into something strange and cinematic.
Both guests were given full freedom to shape their parts.
“We gave them blank canvases,” the band said. “We trusted them to make it their own. They absolutely did.”