The first song that I wrote for the album, incidentally is the track that starts the album. Burned by the Sun came out of playing with bits of my own sample pack. The sample pack was created from recording my cover of the Johnny Cash song, The Man Comes Around. During that process I had accumulated a bunch of low guitar hits and swells, weird atmospheric vocal harmonies turned into pads, and random bits of percussion. So I brought everything into Logic and started messing around with it all.

Then it came time to make the music video. I knew I wanted a Mad Max style lone survivor in the apocalypse vibe to the video. I had been growing out my apocalypse beard for a while! So it was time to put it to use. Luckily here in Las Vegas, we have tons of mountains and desert areas to film such a thing. So after a stop at a thrift store for apocalypse clothing, I set out to film the video.