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The Red Giant Stirs (Single)

by Spiral

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I believe this is the first time that a single has been longer than the album it originated from. I might be wrong, but I’ve never seen it happen before. In order to understand how this came about I must give you a little history .

The songs for the album “The Traveler” took shape during the recording sessions for “The Capital in Ruins”. Casey Mraz had agreed to join Spiral full time and our original intention was to create an album with three tracks, one written by each of us and then arranged and produced by the band as a whole. The first song we worked on was “The Caves of Anamnesis”, which was mine, followed by “The Red Giant Stirs” which was Aaron’s. We sent Casey home to write his song and Aaron and I focused all of our attention on promoting “The Capital in Ruins”.

After a while it became clear that Casey was too busy to join Spiral full time so Aaron and I sat down to figure out what to do with “The Traveler”. We came up with the brilliant plan of increasing both of our songs to somewhere over the 40 minute mark and releasing it as a double album. We set to work on both songs. Aaron’s hit the 40 minute mark and mine hit 30. About this time in the recording process we both realized that we were being completely self-indulgent and decided on a different tactic. We added two more songs and cut the epics way down.

We were going to leave it at that but people were constantly curious about the long versions of the songs, so we caved to pressure. Here they are, the original epic length versions complete with full length solos, jam sections, and the full length ambient piece for “The Red Giant Stirs”. We know this release is self-indulgent and a little pretentious, but we figured what the hell, if people want to hear it, why not let them.

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released June 3, 2012

Spiral is:
Aaron Frale – Guitars, Vocals
Chris Boat – Vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

Guests on this album:
Casey Mraz – Lead Guitar
Denzel Thompson – Lead Bass, Whistling
Christopher Beasley – Lead Guitar

All songs written by Spiral. © 2012 all rights reserved.

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Spiral Albuquerque, New Mexico

Chris, Aaron, and Bill, the three constant members of Spiral are desert born. They played childish games amongst dunes and cacti and now, their music breathes sand.

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