Molten Soul is a line from a poem. The poem was a list of events and situations
that I wrote to summarize my life at a particular time. One line read:

…I have fashioned songs of molten soul And watch them rust before my eyes…

      Months later I was stopped by that phrase reading the poem. I had been looking for a band name and I wanted it to refer to the music, not the people making it. I realized then that I had defined what I thought my music was when I wrote that. Molten soul. My songs are my soul heated to flow forth; impurities removed in the heating; honesty enforced by the sculpting.
      I have found that they are beyond me time and time again. I reveal more than I planned. To others as well as myself my weakness as well as my strength, my naivity as well as my vision, my corruption as well as my purity are all personified through the sub- and super-conscious levels of my conscious effort. It is because this process takes place beyond my intent, because I try to write epic stories, triumphant verse, a manifestation of purity and strength and vision, and invariably bleed upon the page, my own wounds yet untethered, and soil the promising white parchment with this pulsing falling failing humanity…
      It is because of this that I believe process to be, in being beyond my intent, the product of another's intent. I become a tool in the music's expression of itself. It chooses me for my specific ailments to reveal some related truth and my blood is sacrificed for the ink. This force of intent, this longing of truth for itself, this use of a man as a mere messenger, a vehicle, a servant…this force I call god. It is for this, and through my wavering faith in this fact that I bring these songs to you. Not in pride or in force or in promise, but in humble reverent hope. In the forgotten spirit of public service, as a knight sworn to the ideals of chivalry, I attempt the ideal delivery of my message. Destined to fail, but divine within the simple act of reaching…………..