Haven't posted a proper update in a while, so here goes. We've been on a break from recording for the last few days, so we could enjoy ourselves. For example, any avid YouTuber will know that me and Eric Quillington of Infinite played a couple of songs in a pub last night, which was fun.However, it's time to get back to work now. All of the first 7 tracks are now complete, so it's time to stray into the more proggy shit now. We're gonna start with The Creation Spectrum and get all 27 minutes of that done to loosen up our schedule. It's going to be non stop work here on out.

Also, Amphigory Abyss and The Nights Shore have been leaked by some twat who's working with us. Thanks. We're gonna let it keep on YouTube and stuff, but you've sorta ruined the surprise for yourself.

Final piece of news for now. This may not be relevant to mind as such, but I'm going to be making another solo album. I felt Realm was a little dissappointing for you lot and there are some more feelings I want to get out there.

-Jason

This record's starting to look pretty cool now. We've almost finished The Creation Spectrum and it's turning out exactly how I imagined it would. It will be an epic mix of post-apocolyptic soundscapes and Mind-isms. The first two parts will get you in a state of false security, then the third will crush your brain.

In other news, Monolith and Where the Sun Sets are complete too. So, once the third part of The Creation Spectrum is out of the way, there's only the title track left to finish. All 12 minutes of it. That's going to involve about a day of work.

-Jason "God" Smith

I'm really liking the direction of Mind. Summer's Edge is looking out to be a great song. I"ll make sure to get the album -Stephanie F. Johnson

Alright. Sorry to keep bothering you, but this is fairly important.

The release date globally is March 1st, 2011. Of course, it'll have porbably leaked by then, rendering it pointless, but we like being organised.

Seriously guys, not many more annoying updates now!

-Jason

Tom: Fuck Yeah, I am Excited as a teenager for Dream Serpent

ARE YOU READY FOR AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT ANOTHER TRACK FROM THE ALBUM?! I thought so. This is one of the mroe traditional tracks, and the shortest "proper" track on the album. It is Crystal Urn.

Crystal Urn (Extreme Metal/ Industrial Metal) (3:19)

Erratic and quite creepy industrial noises in a sequence begin the song. In the background, you can hear screaming noises, sounding like people in deep pain. Over the top of this, you start to hear some extremely fast and heavy shredding. This continues for about 10 seconds or so, until a huge spree of drums changes the whole atmosphere of the song. The screaming noises fade out and the riff descends into an erratic speed metal structure. The drums are traditional heavy metal. In this song in particular, the bass line is quite technical. It is clearly audible over the rest of the song and changes from rapid arpeggios at one point to a sequence of two notes at other points. When it comes to the first verse, the opening line has just the guitar in it, before the rest of the instruments return to their normal positions. All of the lyrics in this song are screamed. In the verses, it is a high pitched, more black metal-esque scream like latter day Mind, whereas it is the harsh growling sounds reminiscent of their early days as an alt metal band. When it comes to the chorus, it musically takes a slightly different route as well. Instead of the complicated thrashy riff, it turns into an industrial, Meshuggah-like riff and goes a bit slower. In the link between each verse and chorus, there is a little drum fill. When it comes down to the bridge, both guitars go into a mixture of arpeggios and mini guitar duel solos. The vocals are still guttural, but seem more like strained talking than screaming. At the end of the song, every instrument goes into overdrive and the vocals are similar to that of hardcore punk. To mark the end of the song, Robert does a drum roll.

Lyrics:

A scratch in the flesh,
A banshees cry,
The soul of mine she hath break,
Wall of mesh,
Another lie,
How much more can you take?

The silent saint,
Rests lonesome here,
The children laugh, shattered,
All this for me?,
You shouldn’t have,
Oh, I really am so flattered.

I’ll show you pain... like never before,
Take my word, treacherous whore,
No longer am I tainted by your words.

A scream from your mouth,
Blood running now,
This is all for the better,
I tell myself,
Yet all in vain,
I knew I should never have let her...

I’ll show you pain... like never before,
Take my word, treacherous whore,
No longer am I tainted by your words.
I’ll show you pain... like never before,
Take my word, treacherous whore,
No longer am I tainted by your words.

I could come down for you,
I would go down for you,
I could come down for you,
I would go...

I’ll show you pain... like never before,
Take my word, treacherous whore,
No longer am I tainted by your words.

I’ll show you pain... like never before,
Take my word, treacherous whore,
No longer am I tainted by your words.

No longer am I tainted,
No longer am I tainted,
No longer am I tainted by these words unsure.

Jason: “This is probably the highest octane, pure, relentless metal song we have on the album. It has certain moments that can be likened to our early days, but it also has that certain ambience that we put on all of our newer albums. I’m not going to say it’s the heaviest on the album, when we have songs like TCS III: Black, but it’s certainly up there. I think all of our devoted fans will like this particular song because it has a nostalgic quality about it. I think it comes well off of The Nights Shore, since it goes from the brink of insanity to just full blown madness such as this. It is absolutely fucking bonkers. When we were tracking the album, my voice almost started to go during this song, which was pretty annoying. Luckily, I managed to squeeze enough out to complete this. It then gets peculiar when it goes into Monolith...”

The answer is B. -Stephanie F. Johnson

Lol I almost felt kind of bad there, didn't want your fans attacking me later on for winning their prize. Well, I'll make sure to put the album somewhere nice, so i could give it a respectable listen. - Stephanie F. Johnson

We have created a short film for our fans. Hope you like it. I think the first scene displays my acting abilities pretty well as well, so that's another one added to my check list.

It’s a black screen as the word “Mind” appears in white text out of nowhere, before fading out back into the darkness. Beneath this screen, you can hear birdsong. The black screen then fades to a video of Jason, in casual clothes, hair tied back and wearing glasses sitting on a park bench, just watching the world go by. A gentle acoustic, slightly melancholy, track appears in the background quietly. The video then progresses so that the sky goes from a beautiful summer’s day to pitch black night. It cuts back to Jason, who is still sitting on the bench, except his eyes are now wide open and emotionless, and he is staring into the blackness. It then shows you his chest, which has been ripped open to show his heart, beating furiously.

Then, ambient noises (which is in fact, the intro of Summers Edge played backwards) start to appear in the scene. The blank look on Jason’s face soon turns into an evil smirk and the background fades into a black room, with a sole light on Jason. It then cuts straight to a black screen with huge letters “DREAM SERPENT” scrawled in what seems like blood. The music changes directly to the bridge of Summers Edge and then the screen fades out into the whole band playing an excerpt from the music video. It then cuts to another black screen, but instead with “A TWISTED LOVE STORY” written in the blood.

The music cuts completely for a few seconds as the screen turns back to the park where it was initially. A mixture of the acoustic track and the ambient noises is playing, and as it goes to the park bench, no one is there.

Once again it all cuts out, but instead it cuts to Jason talking about the record. “You know, this record is something that is really close to my heart. I know that Shattered Fairytale will be hard to live up to, but you have to try, don’t you? It’s going to be bigger and better than anything you’ve ever heard before. This isn’t just our usual ambient-death-pop-metal or whatever, it’s a monster.”

You then see a scene of the band working in the studio on a track, trying to layer it, with the words 12th October, 2010 in the corner. Jason is giving instructions to some of his assistants producing, whilst he edits the amount of ambience in the track. Aaron is in the recording booth, guitar in hand, waiting for the instruction to play. “We’re just working on a track here.” Aaron states “I need to record some more guitar layers for it, apparently” before making a tutting noise. You then see Aaron playing a guitar solo passionately in the booth and everyone outside of there applauding him.

“The album is practically done now. We just need to get a few more tracks completely perfected and then we’re good to start making copies and try to stop them from getting illegally leaked. It’s been one of the tougher albums we’ve had to make, because of the depth of the music. It’s sonically different from anything we’ve ever tried before. It’s also WAY more technical than anything else we’ve attempted.” Jason states in the recording studio speaking to the camera.

“This is a story we need to tell.”

It then goes into a black screen with the words “TRACK BY TRACK COMING SOON” followed by “GET PREPARED.”

Yes, that's right! We're doing another track-by-track since the last one went down unbelievably well. It'll be there around about Christmas time.

-Jason "Vote for Sexiest Male at the @Chaos awards" Smith

Wow, thats awesome man!

- Isaac Thompson