Just a day over 14 months ago we were given the gift called Of the Seas, Bella's featured 4th record that had the most significant gap between the last record..... at the time. Now, over a year later, she's got another amazing gift for all of you. Through tireless days and struggle to find a new story for another record, she made of what time she had to write and create music for her next record. And finally, the wait is over! Here, she gives you today, Discovery.
Discovery
1- Since the Beginning
2- Turn Back to Men
3- Conqueror
4- The Colorless Days
5- Discovery
6- The Love That Stopped Time
7- One and Only Fearless Heart
8- Broken Tree
9- Silence Is Alive
10- Ghost
11- Saviour
12- The Bravest of Lions
13- Bound
14- Everything
15- Master of the Damned
16-Sunshine
17- Fire and Flames
18- The War Begins
Tell us about Discovery.
Bella: Discovery is my 5th and final record. Just kidding. There's more, I promise. But um, Discovery is a long, tiresome, and powerful piece of work. I didn't expect it to take me this long to make a freakin' record seeing as I have made 4 of them before it. But this one is pretty special so I am glad I took my time. This one kind of frames my whole life. Because back one day I was looking through old notebooks I had a few ancient songs in, (they were no good) except for one that I did see had some good quality lyrics in it (One and Only Fearless Heart) which was probably from when I was maybe 11. So I dusted off that chestnut and turned it into something awesome. But it really comes down to writing about the person I've become and it is a person I've really enjoyed to see finally arrive. I've got this strength, courage, independence, and happiness that I never found in MYSELF before. And now that I'm this person, it's like, wow, look at all this messy stuff that doesn't really seem so scary and intimidating anymore. That's really cool to see. So it really just comes down to discovering who I've become, who I am, and ultimately who I want to be.
Someone noted that you tweeted a while ago about a song called 'Fire and Flames' that you wrote one day and you always play it when you're angry. Is that the same Fire and Flames in this record?
That's a funny thing. I did write the original Fire and Flames AGES ago, I think in the beginning of Of the Seas actually. And uh, I was just angry one night and I was strumming really angrily on my guitar and had this really cool jam going and wrote these really angry lyrics to it and it never really had a name haha, so one day I was playing it and then I did that tweet something like, "I'm gonna call this Fire and Flames because I was firing and burning with anger when I wrote it" and also mentioned that the lyrics were crap. Haha they honestly were, and I still have them too. So I thought, hmm, maybe I can rewrite this and turn it into an actually good song. So I did, and now it stands as my angry jam with a cool story hanging in the midst.
What is the song Sunshine about?
Sunshine is actually a dream song I wanted to write. It involves the chorus of 'You Are My Sunshine' and it's essentially my spin off of it. It's just a cute little diddy that I created from that song because it has always been one of my favourites to sing. So now I have my own version to be proud of!
What's the first thing you do when you finish a record?
Get exited. Then the very first thing I do is play the entire record and just make it all feel final and catch the mistakes I might have missed. Then I finalize the track list. (Order of songs) and then I'm ready to bring it to the world.
