An album that continually calls for us to hold the things we love close, Manic is the product of a period when Wage War nearly lost everything. But now that they’ve emerged from the darkness, the quintet are imbued with passion, vigour and a sense of hope that feels impossible to dispel.
“There's real hope to be found when you listen to a song that, sure, might not have all the answers, but has clearly been made by someone going through the exact same thing that you are, and that's where I believe Manic really shines through,” Cody concludes. “That's where the hope kicks in. The knowledge that one person or group of people can get through something brings even more people together. In the end, we're all just trying to get through life, and that’s why hope is so important.
Briton, reflecting on the most intense and mentally taxing period of his life, agrees.
“You're not walking alone through all this. Sometimes, there's not a perfect answer to fix everything in our lives, and sometimes you’ve got to fail to figure out where you're going. There's some days where I wake up and I'm just like, ‘I don't even want to get on stage.’ But you’ve just got to keep trying to fight through it. That's a big thing I want our fans and listeners of this album to know: just don't give up, because you might be in the trenches, you might be getting your butt kicked, but it will end and there will be a time that you look back and think, ‘Yeah, that time sucked, but it allowed me to grow.’ That's what Manic is about – it's that journey of going through a lot of really bad stuff, but knowing that you can deal with it and you don’t have to deal with it alone. There’s always a way to make a better tomorrow.”
Wage War’s album Manic is out now via Fearless Records.
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