Trivia / Enfold Darkness

• Development Hell: There was an eight-year gap between Our Cursed Rapture and Adversary Omnipotent that can be chalked up to a lot of different reasons. For one thing, the band could not keep a lineup, and while Matt Brown wrote relatively steadily, there was always the difficulty of getting new members up to speed and then hoping that they would last more than one or two tours. Nonetheless, they had at least a few songs done as early as 2012 ("Lairs of the Ascended Masters" and "Banishment", while "The Dirge of the Surrogate Invictus" was apparently partially finished by the end of the year), and most likely could have hit the studio, but between Sumerian dropping them and their revolving door of vocalists and drummers, they stayed put. Over the next few years, their personal lives, difficulty in holding down a lineup, and general bad luck forced the band to be put on the back burner, and while the new blood (Greg Vance and Todd Honeycutt) gave them a reason to continue, Greg's bad personal luck and Matt Brown's Heel–Faith Turn threw yet another monkey wrench into things. By the time they finally got the album done, many songs had been ready for years, and quite a few of them were songs that Matt had written before he had left.
• The Pete Best: Josh del Sesto, Eviean DuReaux, and Josh Brown were all early members who have not done anything major since leaving the band, though Brown returned very briefly after Jack Blackburn left before leaving again. James Aaron Moody, meanwhile, was a non-member who wrote some of "Dead in the Brine" with Matt Brown while both of them were in high school and before their project even had a name, but once Matt decided to turn it into a full-fledged band, Moody left and Mike Low entered the picture and helped complete the song.
• Refitted for Sequel: Demon King's debut single "The Watcher, Wreathed in Flame" started out as an unfinished Enfold Darkness track (that Matt Brown had apparently intended as a third "Exaltations" song), which explains why its sound is so reminiscent of his era in Enfold Darkness.

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