A deluxe edition of hardcore punk outfit Miltarie Gun‘s latest album “God Save The Gun” was newly issued today, September 09th. Arriving a bit later than its originally intended August 07th release, this revamped version of the album also sports a previously unannounced cover of “Thought You Were” by Anthony Green of Circa Survive, etc..
Other new additions to the album include “Worlds Alway’s Burning” featuring Mannequin Pussy, “I’ve Said Too Much” featuring Dazy and “3 AM“. Those songs were b-sides from the original album sessions, sans the newly added cover by Green.
The band’s vocalist Ian Shelton stated of this set:
“Everything in ‘God Save The Gun’ became so focused on the internal, that when it came to fitting these songs in, it felt like they had stepped outside of that perspective. In my head these songs started to form into the feeling of finally coming to after being so caught up in your own head, and then realizing the rest of the world is still out there and you haven’t been actively participating.”
As for getting Green involved, Shelton added:
“Anthony doing a version of ‘Thought You Were Waving’ is one of the most surreal things. I always love when a cover can, in my opinion, surpass the original version. I hear decisions that Anthony made on it and I go, ‘Damn, why didn’t I think of that?’
When we decided to do the song together, it was because he had previously sent me a video of him doing it. So I thought, why don’t we make a real version of this? To me, it proves that a song can just be the first draft of an idea. I think that Anthony improved the song and made it better, and his version now gets stuck in my head instead of my own.”
