Thanks for posting your opinions guys. Honestly, people's opinions have been going both ways on this one, and we expected nothing less. Some say they like it more than the old stuff, and some don't like it as much, but either way you "swing", so to speak, it's important to realize what this EP is.
It was intended as a bridging between the debut and the next full length album. I think it was a good decision to release this EP for several reasons, I might have discussed them a few times before in interviews I've done, but the main reason was time, that we knew we wouldn't have time to finish the full length for a while and we wanted to give something to the fans in the mean time. Also we wanted to avoid too direct comparisons between the debut and the next full length, and by releasing an EP in between I think we will accomplish this better than if we had just released two full lengths back to back.
Aside from this we also had too much material ready to fit on a full length release. The new tracks for the next full length are already written, so rather than just letting some of this material remain unreleased and unheard, we thought it would be a good idea to release an EP so that the fans would actually get to hear this material in stead of it just sitting and collecting dust somewhere, metaphorically speaking.
So one could say this was a strategic move on our part, one that will undoubtedly be questioned by some and praised by others, but we still stand by this EP 100%, and everyone in the band (with no exceptions) feels that this is the most accomplished work we've done with Age of Silence thus far. Considering how much acclaim and how many fantastic reviews the debut received, it is only in the cards that this EP will split the crowd in half. We anticipated it, and this was... (not synthetic, not fabricated) but calculated! (yeah that's right!!)
However, we do enjoy reading what everyone thinks so please keep on posting your comments! Much appreciated.
Regards,
Andy Winter