To The Blade

This menacing track sees Jonathan Higgs singing about the ISIS beheadings, in particular the brutal murder of British taxi driver-turned-humanitarian aid worker Alan Henning. "When they killed him, I lost it, totally. I just couldn't believe it," vocalist Jonathan Higgs recalled to NME. "That guy was no ordinary person – he was the dictionary definition of a 'good man.' He had chosen to go out there to help people and they cut his f---ing head off." "Somewhere between those two lives I felt like the whole world was getting all too much and I felt like a bomb waiting to go off," he continued. "How can you beat a belief that makes you do those things? How can you fight faith and ideas like that? It's just unknowable."

The lyrics, "well you called him a liar, you called him a piece of dirt" refer to the words spoken by the executioner in the horrifying beheading video released to the world with Higgs adding, "In the final seconds, I think he knew everything you were, a plague on the horizon."

Bassist Jeremy Pritchard told NME: "We didn't really have any idea of how we wanted the verses to sound. It was almost like Queen's 'Seven Seas of Rhye' - we recorded lots of different ideas, scrapped almost all of them and went for this lo-fi feeling of gaining consciousness rather than multiple arpeggios."