Tracks 1 & 2 - Recorded + mixed 2019, previously unreleased
Prairie, Facing West originally broadcast DroneDay 2020 via Prairie Wires 'Droners In A Dangerous Time' stream.

Well, here it is. The infamously boasted, perpetually scrapped, and divinely lackluster Solo Black Metal album..all 1.5 demo tracks.

Tracks 1 & 2 I began working on in late 2019 after 'retiring' D.D. a couple years earlier. I didn't go near an instrument for over a year. Slowly I started plugging shit back in and buzzing around, and after a few months I had the bones for 'Deadbeat Demo' in place.

I had a pretty strong bond with that track. I had never worked on anything that openly confronted my emotional tensions...likely hadn't confronted them in any venue. I really had faith in a full project, and sketched out the rest of the album...4-5 solid songs with droney interludes at will. It seemed feasible.

I just got stuck. I didn't know where the riff/drums at the end of 'Slow Release' were supposed to go...so I skipped ahead and tried to record some later tracks and build some tones/riffs...a year later I was knee-high in unsorted, unassigned cassette tapes full of noise. Organs, guitars, percussion, lyrics...just floating loose.

I still very much thought I was working on this project. I had to get finish the Solo Black Metal comeback opus. But I couldn't even remember the riffs...I had no aim or direction, I was just recording boring, uninspired noise.

I had to move on...sort of. Teaching Lessons...Vol. 2 felt in the same Universe, but not connective enough to drop the original pair. At this point, I feel like there's a sonic canvas that will result in a full-length that could be the spiritual fulfillment of the Solo Black Metal album. But these 'songs' need to go. They fill me with guilt and attack my self-esteem.

I would still safely argue that Deadbeat Demo.is one of the most ferocious pieces in the catalog. It should have been released as a single..probably would have brought some positive encouragement to keep me moving.

Prairie, Facing West is a relevant companion, as it is chronologically the next piece worked after recording 1+2. You can hear how muddy and lost things were at this point.