Trivia / Alterbeast

• Creative Differences: Andrew Lamb managed to lose his entire band after the 2015 Devastation on the Nation tour, and a good deal of the year or so that followed was devoted to becoming a better person and learning how to handle adverse circumstances in a healthier manner. Dylan Walker's aborted live stint with the band, meanwhile, was strictly creative; while a very talented drummer, he is far better at improvisation and technical playing than he is at blasting, and one practice session with Alterbeast made it painfully clear that he was not a good fit for them. Michael Alvarez finally outlined why people kept leaving in early 2020 after Brandon Busa called out Andrew for not giving him his drum gear back after he had left it with him, when he declared on Facebook that he was done with Andrew in every possible way and tore into him for his rude, selfish, ungrateful, and childish behavior and his habitual failure to pay people what he owed them (including money that Alvarez was owed for Feast, which he never saw a penny of despite the album's solid sales). Allen Burton would go on to echo this, as he also said that while he was originally going to do their upcoming European tour as one final favor, the incident with Busa's gear, coupled with Andrew blaming him for catching felony charges in Texas (after a band-wide arrest that occurred due to Andrew pulling an illegal U-turn in front of a police officer with a van that had expired tags and a bunch of weed and paraphernalia inside), was also his own personal last straw.
• Creator Backlash: Andrew Lamb is not a fan of Immortal. As far as he's concerned, it's a GBAA album, not really an Alterbeast album, and while he still stands behind several tracks and regularly plays material from it live, he is significantly happier with Feast.
• Development Hell: The four-year gap between Immortal and Feast was due to a multitude of factors; while most of the record had been written as early as 2015, the departure of literally the entire band save for Andrew Lamb put a stop to their hopes of immediately running into the studio after Devastation on the Nation. Lamb then almost just gave up and called it quits altogether before he decided to slowly rebuild the band while mostly working on himself, and even after he had a new lineup, he had to get them up to speed live before he could finish recording the album. The album was finally done in the summer of 2017 and was ready to go then and there, but Unique Leader chose to have them wait until the beginning of 2018.
• Executive Meddling: This very well may have been one of the things that saved the band. The initial plan for Feast after the band collapsed in 2015 was to cobble together just enough people (most likely just Lamb plus Cam Rogers and Alex Bent) to record what was going to be an EP of their remaining unrecorded material, then formally call it quits. When Lamb presented this proposal to Unique Leader Records, he was told that they wouldn't accept an EP and that he had to present them with a full album; this, coupled with the unwavering fan support, was more than likely what led Lamb to keep the band going during the uncertain period instead of just putting out a swansong release.
• Fan Community Nicknames: They have referred to their fanbase on social media as the "Wolf-Tang Clan".
• What Could Have Been: Cam was originally supposed to track vocals on Feast before it fell through, and "The Maggot's Ascension" was originally titled "Sharpening Archaic Rust" and had different lyrics from Monte's time in the band.