drummer Stet Howland, who replaced longtime member Jeff Plate in 2017, and their final album to feature vocalist Mike Howe before his suicide in 2021.

[3] About seven months after the release of XI, frontman Mike Howe was asked if he intended to write another album with Metal Church; his response was, "We have every intention of doing that and that's what it's all about.

[6] In a May 2017 interview, Vanderhoof stated that Metal Church had begun writing and demoing their next album, which was tentatively due in early 2018.

[8] Kurdt Vanderhoof explained the theme behind the album: "The cover actually has to do with the era that we are living in currently with all the deception that's going on politically and socially that you have to be extremely careful about who and what you listen to and believe.

The same thing replays to not necessarily with the church or spirituality or your faith but it has to do with in an era of fake news and all the deception that's going on.