Half Past Forever starts an album

Well, Half Past Forever for the last several months has been writing and performing new songs, and then recording demos for said songs. I wrote about 25 new songs, plus there were a couple of songs left over from the old HPF era. From there, we've been playing the songs live and seeing which songs stick, and I think that we have finally decided on which songs to record.

We actually had enough songs that we were going to do a pretty good double album, but in the end, we decided it was best to do an incredible single album instead. So, that is what we've done: we've taken the 30 or so songs and whittled the album down to 13 songs, and we're rpetty excited about it.

One thing that I have gone for while writing and then we all did as we recorded was to write great songs but to have something musically interesting in every songs. That isn't alway easy, since quite a few of our songs are upbeat, fun pop/punk kind of songs, and in order to stay true to their nature you really can't put a ton of music nuggets in there without sounding stilted and pretentious...and I think anyone who knows me (and the rest of the band) we are about as non-pretentious as you can possibly be.

However, with each song we worked and worked through the demo process to fill the songs with cool stuff, and I think with each song you will find something neat and interesting. The goal is to write great songs and jamming (so to speak) will happen naturally.

The songs that we have decided to record are definitely the best stuff I've ever written and I have a pretty good feeling you'll agree. We've let a few peope we trust listen to the new songs and they are unanimous in agreeing that the stuff is the best I've ever written. I've also received quite a few comments that these songs are the best I've ever sung, too, so that's exciting.

Here are the songs we've decided to record for the album (due out in January):

1. Waiting
2. Here
3. Know
4. Hero
5. Rise
6. Somewhere
7. Gone
8. Cry Tonight
9. Tunnel Vision
10. Closer
11. Convenient
12. Naive
13. How Long

Well, there we are, my friends. Now, you can download most of the demos for these songs at Audiri.

Listen to the songs and learn them, please. Then come and scream them at the top of your lungs at our next shows.