BOOTLEG: EXCLUSIVE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING TRACK, “THE WATCHFUL EYE (DEMO)”

In our never-ending quest to give you the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series. Throughout each month, we’ll post cool, new, and often-exclusive tracks right here for you to hear before anyone else.

This installment is “The Watchful Eye (Demo),” an early version of the song that appears on Serpents (Translation Loss), the debut album from stoner-metal crew Struck by Lightning. Vocalist-guitarist Gregory Lahm fills us in on the song below.

REVOLVER What’s “The Watchful Eye” about?
GREGORY LAHM “The Watchful Eye” is about life as we know it coming to an end.

Why did you want to write a song about that?
Everything is fucked. Why wouldn’t I want to write a song about the end of humanity?

Fair enough. Which part of it did you come up with first?
The music was written first and the theme came after. I really like lyrical themes that stir up imagery when you are listening to a song and for me the idea of nature reclaiming the earth and destroying everything in the process fit the mood of the song.

Was this an easy song to write?
I would say it was a pretty painless song to write. It was the first out of all the songs on the record to see completion and it sort of set the pace for what was written after.

How did the song change from the demo to the version on Serpents?
Honestly the song didn’t change other than the production and recording quality on the record is far superior to that on our demo.

What sort of feedback have you gotten on “The Watchful Eye” so far?
We haven’t had too much feedback in general as our record isn’t out yet, but I’d say the few that have our demo or those who have seen us live definitely have given us positive feedback on “The Watchful Eye” and others.

Struck by Lightning: "The Watchful Eye (Demo)"

Photo by Amy Atwell