We have already covered the meanings behind the songs of Morning Augment, but we wanted to take another approach.  Anyone that has written songs knows they are not perfect the first time, especially when it comes to song titles!  Songs evolve over time or are changed all together.  What usually happens is you have a lot of back-story with songs, but it’s never shared with anyone.  We felt we would share some back story and fun facts about our songs!

Up In Arms

Nick Name: The original name for this song was "Mathematics and the Alphabet". Why? Because it was one of our most complicated songs when we first started as a band. While mostly consisting of single finger notes and a decent amount of riffs, compared to the rest of the songs, it felt like a fitting name at the time and made us think of mathcore...like, basic math-core, not Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculus-core.

Fun Facts: The opening drum pattern put a few of our previous drummers on edge as they tried to do it without throwing drum sticks through the walls. Good thing Gregs awesomeness learned it in like 14 seconds.

The chanting was a neat but could have been done way more potent had we gotten more bodies in the studio to do it. The recording was only done with four people (Tim, Chris, Brian, and a friend; Joey). We switched positions in the sound booth, distance from the mic and recording it three times. After layering it all together it has a nice sound of a decent crowd.

My Midlife Crisis

Nick Name: "d20". Why? Because we be rolling on 20's!!! Anyone familiar with Dungeons and Dragons will tell you that rolling a 20 on a twenty-sided dice is a good thing. You basically have a 5% change to let heads roll, smash doors into splinters, and do other things that make your character do almost super-human style moves. We needed a nick name for the song and this is the first thing we thought of, probably coming right after a conversation about a nerdy subject.

Fun Facts: When in the studio, the very beginning screams were done a few different ways. We originaly slowed down a part later in the song, where the guitars harmonize single notes, to make the riff seem more brutal, but we felt that it took away from the song and wanted to keep the tempo the same. This also made it easier to go back into the chorus.

Unfriendly Waters

Nick Name: Haste. Why? The song was written pretty quickly, we don't remember how long, but it was along the lines of a few days. Not as quick as the first incarnation of War On March 6th, but still pretty quick for a song. Interestingly enough, this song stayed mostly the same by the time it was finished. Haste was such a neat word and it sort of fit the song due to the quickness of writting it, so it just stuck.

Destroying What Was Once Beautiful

Nick Name: Mung. What does it mean? Just...do a google search and if you find a description that makes you think, WTF!?, then you have probably found it. Mung also refers to a fictional sexual act that has gained popularity in juvenile Internet news forums. This was a totally random nick name. I think because it was so gross it was just was just a messed up name for a song! haha!

( If you need help finding what it means, do a google search for the keywords "mung catcher definition".)

Fun Facts: The lyrics for the chorus was pulled from the archives of Chris Bensing and his wonderful composition note book from 10+ years ago (with minor revisions). Originally we were going to slow down the second part of each chorus, but decided that it became epic when only doing the last one.

Just to keep the name but hidden from most people, at 4:30 in the song, the low voice is yelling "mung".

Bleed For A Cause

Nick Name: This is probably one of the only songs that kept its name because of the nick name. While searching for drummers, Matt was playing drums to this song so much that he had blisters on his hands. We told him that he needed to keep playing and that he was Bleeding for the cause. We nick named it Bleed For A Cause and it fit with some lyrics Matt wanted to do for a song anyway.

Fun Facts: The beginning sounds simple when you hear it, but for someone who has never played the pattern it can be "different" to them at first. It took Matt a bit to do this on drums and this is one reason why we played it so much. He also liked to yell "cocksucker" every time he messed up on this song while writing it... it was so great! (We should have kept those clips from the studio!!)

War On March 6th

Nick Name: What the hell is so special about March 6th? What war happened on it? Well you know what, our imaginary one did and it was on that day in some ancient year! This first incarnation of War On March 6th was written completely by Brian in less then 2 hours on March 6th of 2005. So we decided to keep March 6th in the title.

Fun Facts: After playing the first incarnation of this song, we realized one thing we did not like. Some of the strumming was too repetitive and felt a bit monotonous. I guess that happens from time to time. We sat down, re-wrote parts of the songs and changes some stumming and it became how it is today. This instantly became one of our favorites and we refered to the song as March 6th so much that we wanted to keep its name some how.