Lanterns

Lanterns is the debut, full-length album of American rock band A Very Loud Death, released independently by the group on September 19, 2017. Recorded between April 1, 2017 and August 21, 2017 at The Ministry of Sound in Atlanta, Georgia, the album was engineered by Luke Campolieta and produced by both Luke and the band. Background and recording Following the release of their EP, The Castration of the Idiot, A Very Loud Death took a 7-month break to develop chemistry with their new drummer, Cole O'Neil Robertson. At that time, Chris Edge and Bryan Peel already had half of the album written as well as about 20 other songs, with the tracks for Lanterns selected because they were "darker and heavier and more fitting of the art direction at the time". According to Edge, it wasn't until the track, "The Wild", had been written with Cole that the band found a direction and concept for the album and were able to finish writing the second half of the album. They approached Luke Campolieta at one of their concerts in November 2016 about doing a possible full length. Two months later they finalized a date and began pre-production. While all of the tracks went through pre-production, with Edge writing the lyrics and the band formulating the arrangements and overall direction, any songs with lead melodies, harmonies, backing vocals, effects, noise, and any post-production were written in the studio, often on the fly utilizing free jazz, noise rock, jam band, industrial, narrative, and experimental techniques.