Popularity or "marketability" weren't really part of the equation when we started the music endeavor of Pentakill.
The real reason was that we had a few metalheads on our music/sound team that were dying to make some metal. (Kyugene(Eugene), Protoshredanoid(Jason) and I, to be specific. The skins had been out for a while, we thought "wouldn't it be fun to make a few Pentakill songs and put them out, just for sh*ts and giggles", and we started it as a fun weekend project. Because we could play the instrumental parts and produce all the songs ourselves, we knew that we could probably get it done without having to ask for any budgets.
Eventually, we just kept having new ideas for cool songs, so it turned from "let's make 2 or 3 songs" to "lets... kinda make an album?" -- we got the songs to a pretty finished place pretty soon.
I remember us reaching out to Jorn Lande ZP Theart (I remember that when I called Jorn on the phone, he was currently on the roof of hi...
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