Written as part of my Masters of Music post-graduate degree at the University of Hull as part of a dissertation entitled "Mankind Fall: The Common Tropes of the Heavy Metal Genre and Their Development", which looked into the common tropes and cliches of the heavy metal genre and its countless sub genres as a whole, while also examining their history and development both outside and within the metal genre. ​

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Tracks 3 and 4, Choir of the Blue and Mankind Fall, both feature additional guitar work by Alex Abel, a good friend of mine and student at the University of Hull, though guitar solos recorded on the two tracks.​

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Mankind Fall exists as a combination of all my influences, from Metallica to Pantera, Judas Priest to Blind Guardian, to name just a few. it also draws from all my experiences playing in Teras, to working as a session guitarist on the ferries, my work as a sound engineer/technician and my love of Heavy Metal!

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I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it