While Pestilent Age strives to write material relating to global or Unites States national problems the band thought it was important to talk about a problem that is very much local for us. A lack of clean fresh water is a problem that troubles much of the globe. For those of us fortunate to live in a 1st world country challenges like this hardly ever pop into our mind. Until it happens in your own back yard to your own friends and family most of us would never give such prob

The music behind “Flint” starts off with a slam type riff. Groove laden quarter notes on the guitar and bass sit over Steve’s 16th note carpet rolls and pounding rim shots. 200 BPM of power are unleashed right from the start. “FLINT” is the 2nd fastest song Pestilent Age has written and by far the most complex guitar centered song to date. While the entire song is in the key of B, three different scales are utilized. An intro riff in B Phrygian quickly changes into a B Phrygi