This EP is a definite example of a young, freshly established band rushing themselves into a studio with only so much figured out. Mixing and recording was done at The Barber Shop Studios by Max Barber. Our bassist Brandon Davis and Max were once bandmates in Max's metal band Charonyx.

Here's a link to their EP "Hearts of Steel" and here's a link to The Barbershop Studios Facebook page

charonyx.bandcamp.com/releases

www.facebook.com/thebarbershopstudio/?fref=ts

Outside Barber's own band, we are the first band to record in the Barber Shop. The recording of this EP started late 2015 during the holiday season and ended mid January 2016. Originally, this record was going to be the band's first album called "World Full of Sin" to capitalize on the formation of this band, which initially was known as "MadWorld."

We were rather disorganized coming into this record. We didn't even know what to name the project. Originally, the working title was "Children of the System" but Shasta opted to keep that as a title for a three-part song he is working on. We altered the title to - "Child of Man" the name of a song Brandon was working on. This song was no where near finished, so the band tucked it away and replaced it with the Nirvana-inspired number "Overprotective," but we kept the name of the EP. Also during the recording of this album, we added an additional guitarist to our ranks: Jeff Reagan. It was too bad that all the guitar tracks had already been recorded. So unfortunately, non of Jeff's works are shown in the EP.

The artwork for the EP was penciled by Seth J. Milenbaugh, an aspiring writer, illustrator, and friend. Freddie Rodriguez came up with the concept, inked, and colored it, and the art was touched up by Jordan Trumble, a recording artist, practicing audio engineer, and friend. Working solely with the name "Child of Man" an idea came to mind: The product of mankind... The Earth is a womb, and inside is a malformed fetus, taking in nutrients poisoned by the actions of mankind through an umbilical cord that twists around its neck. Sick of the poison that it is forced to take, it takes a pair of scissors, ready to cut the cord and end its suffering.

One issue came about before releasing this record. We had to abandon the name "MadWorld." There is another band, and countless other entities, with the same name and we wanted to avoid facing possible legality issues. So to keep our asses from getting sued, we changed the name to "The Draoi" --old Celtic for "wizard." The Draoi was an old name that belonged to a project Shasta Sleeves was a part of. As you can clearly see, however, we are no longer the Draoi, but the music we made will remain, and much more is to come.