When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

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