The group is premiering the song’s black-and-white lyric music video today via Scene.
“When we started the process [of deciding which holiday tune to cover], we bounced around a few different Christmas songs and made some quick demos. ‘O Come, O Come Emmanuel’ was the one that stuck out to us the most,” says singer-guitarist Michael LoPresti in an email exchange about the tune. “We cut out a few verses and made it shorter. We also changed some of the melodies and added on to the ‘chorus’ sections. I produced it and tracked most of it in my studio, but Mark [Porostosky] and Ryan [Walker] also sent some tracks over too. Once we had everything, we sifted through all the different parts together and finalized what we wanted to keep or leave out. Then, I mixed it and Mark mastered it.”
LoPresti says he wanted the music video to be something simple that focused on the words “because it’s a song that’s meant to be sung collectively.” It features a collection of stock footage that he edited and then completed with a the lyrical design.
Looking forward to 2023, the band will release a new single in the first few months of the year. 
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This article appears in Nov 16-29, 2022.
