EPK – Gigantum – Self-Titled (2024)

About The Album Artwork

Mia: I envisioned a lot of speakers just blasting out Gigantum and that is how the artwork came to be.

About the album as a whole (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

Blare: The album starts off straight forward and powerful. Some songs really take you on hills and valleys and other songs that are straight forward. It ends on a heavy note with Necron99

Chase: The album musically, I would say all the songs collectively work together. Each song definitely has its own unique sound, but all fit under the same umbrella so to speak. I think we’re not afraid of any one idea or concept and it’ll all end up sounding like us.

Mark: M̩lange of styles РHeaviness and heavy riffs in conjunction with softer, emotional sequences.

Track by track (LYRICALLY & MUSICALLY)

Mia: Monkey King – lyrically – About the Chinese trixter deity called Sun Wukong.

Blare: Envisioned “royalty” when creating the bridge to go with the vibe of Sun Wukong.

Mark: Musically Is a rocknroll stomper

For All My Friends
Mia and Blare:
Is more poppy with a bit of anger behind it. It jams out all the emotion. It’s about losing friends either purposely or through misunderstanding or death and the complicated feelings that go along with that.

Mark: Musically, is groovy, foot tapping fun.

Forever Dreaming
Mark:
Galloping through an uneven landscape of sounds and intensity. Lyrically – is a deeply personal story that is symbolic if left up to the listener.

Brain Haze –
Mia and Blare: Lyrically – Being stressed that your brain no longer works and is on fire.

Blare: Musically – envisioned what it would sound like to be emotionally in a black hole and then finding peace.

Mark: Musically, It’s like rocknroll disco

Rock Box –
Mia: lyrically – Loving music and playing. Not wanting to be defined musically and doing it because it’s what we love.

Blare: Musically – it’s our ode to punk rock Gigantum style going 100mph.

Mark: Is a swift kick in the ass.

Necron99 –
Mia: This was inspired by the 1977 animated movie, WIZARDS. It’s a very interesting concept and a lot of the themes are still very current for today.

Blare: Lyrically, It has a very doomy industrial feel that doesn’t end well. Musically – it’s very heavy and doomy.

Mark: Musically, it’s a heavy repetitive journey into darkness.

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STORY ANGLES

Mia: A lot of the songs are about conversations that we have at practice. Necron99 came about when Mark told us about this movie he was really into and wanted us to check out called, WIZARDS. After watching it, I went down a rabbit hole to learn more and when he started playing the riff that is now Necron99, I started thinking about the importance of what the movie was portraying.

Brain Haze came about when Blare and I were talking about how the mind’s pathways are affected when the brain is on the fritz. Having consciousness during a really hard time, it becomes like a dream where you are disassociated and know what is happening, but you are a passenger in your own life.

Sun Wukong came about because Mark had come over after to my place after yoga and was telling me about this monkey that ate the sun that I guess they talked about during the session. I found that intriguing and wanted to learn more, so I started looking up monkeys in Chinese mythology and found out about this compelling monkey with a very wild story that went on for centuries who is known as Sun Wukong. So I wrote all these lyrics for him and guess what? Wrong monkey. I’m glad that I stumbled upon him though. A very interesting deity.

Mark: All of the band members find the work that we do on this project as therapeutic and healing. We hope that these qualities come through in our music and that the listener can feel our honesty and help them in some way.

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FUN FACTS:

Mia is an herbalist, makes her own teas and works at a witchcraft shop in Burbank called The Crooked Path.

Blare is a left-handed musician and has a degree in world music. She can play the sitar!

Chase has 8 drum sets and over 80 snare drums and will not share any of it with anyone.

Mark is a vegan mountain man that makes his own hot sauce.

They all love pets.

Mark has 2 cats, 2 turtles, various fish and a bearded dragon that he also has a tattoo of.

Mark speaks basic Japanese and wants the band to tour there next year.

We tend to laugh a lot at practice. We crack each other up and in actuality, we are comedians pretending to be musicians.