291:"The album title is a celebration of our first album which was released 10 years ago in 2006. We wanted to convey that we have been around for 10 years and while there have been a change in members and it has been a tough business, we have grown musically and as a band. So many bands have been struggling, myself included through many challenges within the industry that have made it difficult to want to stay in, I spent a lot of time in a depressed state just trying to survive so I wanted to put that into my songwriting and five of the songs on the record are songs I have written over the past year and the other five are songs I have written back in 2001 so it spans the times and bringing them all together to bring one focus sound even though they were written 10 years apart."
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