You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh Herway.

The band Oath Breaker formed in 2008 in Belgium. In this episode, Carro and Jill from the band break down the two-part song that opens their third album, Rea.

These two tracks, 1056 and second son of R, were written and performed as one song.

Coming up, they talk about how and why their sound transformed from a pure hardcore band to something more amalgamated.

And Carro talks about her own evolution as a vocalist and as a lyricist, writing candidly about her own past.

I am the one who is the best!

My name is Carro, I'm a singer and Oath Breaker.

My name is Jill, I play guitar and Oath Breaker.

The story of that song is basically like, I was trying to have like a Shuguay's band.

And I don't know in my head, this idea of a band and Oath Breaker were very separate things.

But when I have these two separate bands, there has to be a way to combine all these things I'm looking for in music or in a band.

Why can we blend those two together? And that's where all started making sense.

The chorus was the first thing that was written.

I know a lot of stuff on acoustic guitar at home because I got a bit out of it so we just try out stuff like how vocals work with this, what can we do with this.

That's also why it makes so much sense to sing on it.

Yeah.

Like normal singing.

Like he plays a acoustic guitar and I try to just sing on it.

Riffs start making more sense to sing over it and to like scream over it.

We basically grew up together.

We've been playing a band for 13 years together.

And screaming was, I've been doing that since I was 13.

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