Trivia / Abysmal Dawn

• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: A minor case with Scott Fuller when he was in the band, as he also plays in Annihilated, Incinerated Divinity, and Monte Pittman's backing band, in addition to being the mainman of Plaguereaper (where he plays all the instruments) and working as a producer and engineer.
• Development Hell: Phylogenesis. It took the band over two years to track the album due to a staggered schedule, and they didn't even start tracking it until the end of 2017, over three years after the release of Obsolescence; furthermore, while the drums and rhythm guitars were done by the end of that year, the leads weren't tracked until 2019, and Charles still didn't have any lyrics written well into the spring of 2019. It was originally slated for a 2018 release, which got pushed back to 2019. Back in the spring of 2019, he acknowledged in a podcast that June 2019 was the absolute earliest that it could realistically find its way onto the label's desk, and that came and went. The album wasn't fully tracked until October, almost two years after they started, and Charles didn't start mastering the album until either the end of October or the beginning of November. In January of 2020, the album was finally announced for an April 2020 release, almost six years after the release of Obsolescence. Charles said in no uncertain terms that it had to be that way - it was an absurdly long development process for sure, but between life getting in the way and the band generally being extremely picky during the songwriting process, it would not have come out as well as it did had they tried to expedite it at all.