Try To Survive

Album: The Infection (2009)
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  • Guitarist Rob Arnold told Kerrang! magazine that this, "was the first song written for The Infection back in June 2008. It set the mood for what was to come. When Mark [Hunter, vocals] and I sat down to begin writing the album, the first notes plucked became the intro riff for this song, and we knew we were on to something."

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