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Today Suffolk-based punk hardcore band Cheap Heat release their debut full-length – ‘Everything I’ve Ever Loved Has Either Died, Broken, Left Me Or Let Me Down.’<\/em> It arrives off the back of a handful of demo EPs recorded that has since the quartet hone their sound since forming in early 2016.<\/p>\n With their collective inspirations coming from abusing alcohol, sustaining from anxiety, depression, relationships, vegan food and Nicolas Cage films, ‘EIELHEDBLMOLMD’<\/em> takes a more personal approach, serving as emotional outpouring for vocalist Dan Callis. Throughout the record, he tackles subjects such as awkward breakups, self-loathing, dealing with ignorant people, balancing a full-time job with other priorities, and going on drunken benders.<\/p>\n Wrapped in a raw, ferocious DIY skin, ‘Everything I’ve Ever Loved\u2026’<\/em> documents the highs and lows of two years of Callis’ life with relatability and complete honesty.<\/p>\n To coincide with its release, Dan has pieced together a detailed break down behind each track on\u00a0‘Everything I’ve Ever Loved\u2026’<\/em><\/p>\n This song was based on two conversations I had with different people in my life.<\/p>\n The first was with a girl I was seeing for a few months in 2016. When we first met I mentioned I play in a band and she asked if I\u2019d ever write a song about her. I responded with something along the lines of; \u201cIf I ever write a song about you it\u2019ll be because you\u2019ve done something to upset me, as I don\u2019t write happy songs about love.\u201d<\/em> In the end, we had a messy breakup and rather than give her the satisfaction of being in a song, I recited that conversation.<\/p>\n The second was a conversation I had with my girlfriend who I\u2019d known for years before we got together. One Christmas, at the pub, we were talking about creative outlets. At this point, I wasn\u2019t in a band and was talking about how therapeutical music was for me, how much I missed it and how I felt like I was clinging onto a lot of issues that once upon a time I\u2019d have vented in a song and closed the door on it. She described it from her perspective as putting a lid on it, putting it away and not having to worry about it anymore. I liked that description of the process, so much so that I used it for lyrical inspiration.<\/p>\n This song isn\u2019t really about anything in particular. Just a weird mash up of the first 3 months of my life in 2016. I was living with my ex for a while which became very awkward, I was drinking heavily and I was single for the first time in 8 years. I was trying to find my feet during a pretty big life adjustment and I wasn\u2019t doing a very good job of it.<\/p>\n The dating scene had totally changed too. The last time I was single before this period was 2008, when you\u2019d actively poke fun at a friend if they signed up for online dating as it was still seen as taboo. All of a sudden I was thrown into this modern day single world of swiping on photos to meet someone and imaginary texting etiquette to ensure you seemed interested without being too interested. It seemed like bullshit then and it still seems like bullshit now. Just be honest with people and life is so much easier.<\/p>\n This song is about the internet. It\u2019s mainly centred around arguing with people who take things to a personal place rather than debating the subject at hand, but also tackles other issues such as how people present a perfect life online which never reflects the mundane or depressing elements of reality. We\u2019re all guilty of the latter in some way.<\/p>\n I wrote this song when I had writer\u2019s block. I decided if I couldn\u2019t think of anything to sing about, I\u2019d take my literal surroundings and current predicament as inspiration instead, and I liked how it turned out.<\/p>\n The song references elements of the place I was in at the time; smoking cigarettes despite the fact I despise myself when I do as I\u2019d call myself an ex-smoker these days, seeing a poster on the wall in Rooker\u2019s living room of a band I\u2019d never heard of, sitting on the sofa on my own feeling isolated from anything exciting or depressing enough to inspire me and just general boredom.<\/p>\n For a 30 second song, this hits a fairly big incident in my opinion. When my ex and I moved to Suffolk, only to break up 6 months later, she ended up getting a job via one of my friends who also worked with his ex, and who later become my housemate.<\/p>\n After we broke up, she ended up befriending his ex in the work place. About a month after we broke up, his ex happened to be at an Ipswich Town FC away game in London, and saw me in the pub where I was singing football chants with the rest of the pub. For whatever reason, she decided to go back to my ex saying she saw me in the pub drunk out of my face talking to myself, despite the fact I\u2019d not even had a drink at that point (I was waiting for my mate to bring me my first from the queue at the bar).<\/p>\n I thought it was petty as shit and proper snake behaviour, and thus the song came to be.<\/p>\n This one happened almost by accident. Rooker (guitar\/vocals) and I wrote and recorded the original demo on his camera in his living room in about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n One Monday in the Summer of 2016 I was half way to his house for practice when Jago (our drummer) had to bail last minute. You know that messy break up I spoke about in the explanation to the first song? Well, this was literally the week after that happened, I wasn’t eating and I felt like shit. I phoned Rooker, said I just needed to vent creatively and told him I had a chorus in my head that could work really well acoustically. Plus I was around 30 minutes out of the way of turning around and driving home which would have been a waste of petrol.<\/p>\n I spent the next half an hour in my car singing that chorus back over and over to a clean demo of a riff on my phone. By the time I got to Rooker’s I had it down to a tee and sung it back to him whilst he played said clean riff. We recorded it on his camera, nailed it third take and put it on YouTube. I looked dead behind the eyes in that video because I really was.<\/p>\n I also like the lyric at the start of the second verse too (“And she said; ‘You don’t have a problem, you only abuse alcohol and it doesn’t control you'”<\/em>) as it was something my now-girlfriend said to me one night when I was confiding in her with all my recent relationship issues. Funny how things work out, isn’t it?!<\/p>\n This song mostly wrestles with ignorance or more arguing\/debating with ignorant people. I\u2019m pretty opinionated as a person but all my opinions are based on what I see before me, be it experiences, knowledge, evidence or what someone with more authority on a topic has told me.<\/p>\n Sadly, this doesn\u2019t seem to apply to many others, and when presented with the cold hard fact that 2+2=4 they still insist it\u2019s 5, to the point of putting their fingers in their ears. Sometimes you\u2019ve got to accept that you\u2019d have more luck talking sense or reason into a brick wall, hit the block button\/walk away and move on. All that time wasted convincing an idiot of something could be spent talking to someone who will listen.<\/p>\n Sidenote: Our bassist Jarman mixed and mastered this record and I have no idea what he’s done to the bass in the intro but it literally makes me feel a bit sick listening to it. Reminds me of the bass on iby Khanate, which I am 100% into.<\/p>\n As for the song, there’s not much to it other than I was upset at someone at the time of writing it. I honestly can’t even remember who it was or why they had upset me but at the time I remember thinking they would have no idea the song was in fact about them and said incident. I think that’s pretty accurate seeing as I have no idea myself anymore either.<\/p>\n It also touches on a shift I’ve had lyrically since my last band I was in 5 years ago. Historically since I’ve been in bands from the age of 18, I’ve leaned on metaphors and cryptic lyrics. Since then I’ve got REALLY into Single Mothers and Drew Thomson’s lyrical style of the literal mundane of everyday life frustrations has spoke to me and influenced me a lot. The line “I’m sick of writing in these metaphors, I just hope you never know this song is about you”<\/em> describes that shift in my songwriting.<\/p>\n This song deals with an issue I had with my work\/life balance in a previous job.<\/p>\n I enjoyed my place of work and liked my colleagues, but it was a minimum one and a half hour drive each way to get there, some days taking me an extra hour if traffic was bad. The company was in Norwich but I live in Ipswich, and anyone who knows East Anglian roads will tell you the A140 road between the two places is one of the worst in the country. A county city and a county town connected by a narrow single carriageway, several roundabouts\/villages where congestion is beyond a joke and the regular occurrence of getting stuck behind a slow-moving lorry or tractor.<\/p>\n The time it was taking me to drive, combined with the early mornings\/late evenings to do said drive had a negative effect on both my working life and my personal life. I was struggling to concentrate in the office and the quality of my work dropped. I was getting in in the evening and not eating because I was too exhausted to cook. It was adding an extra layer to a battle with depression I simply didn\u2019t need.<\/p>\n The whole thing took a heavy toll on me and eventually something had to give, be it me moving to Norwich or me finding a job closer to Ipswich. In the end, I went for the latter and now I get to sleep\/eat better.<\/p>\n Also, this is probably one of the slowest songs we’ve written. I want more people to slow dance to it at our gigs. Bringing back that awkward 90s school dancing for life.<\/p>\n
\n1. My Ego Is Out Of Control<\/h2>\n
2. 1994<\/h2>\n
3. A Chip On The Shoulder<\/h2>\n
4. Unenthusiastic Handjob<\/h2>\n
5. Snakes<\/h2>\n
6. TXTMSG<\/h2>\n
7. You Make Me Wish I Was Dead (So I Can Roll In My Own Grave)<\/h2>\n
8. Lost, Confused And F*cked<\/h2>\n
9. Rusted Shut<\/h2>\n