Fifteen years separate Seven Circle Sunrise’s debut album, Beauty in Being Alone, and Hungry Soul. Released in August 2011 and produced by Rick Beato, Beauty in Being Alone opened doors almost overnight. Its breakout single, “Dead Love Letter,” helped take the band across the country, including dates alongside bands such as Incubus. But behind the momentum, frontman Veno Xavier found himself struggling with the pressures that came with it. Just eight months after the album’s release, the original lineup dissolved. The momentum faded, the band slowed down, and by 2015, Seven Circle Sunrise had come to a complete halt. For years, Veno carried the feeling that something had been left unfinished. Then, in 2022, he picked up an acoustic guitar and unexpectedly wrote a song called “Hungry Soul.” That song became the first step back. Over the next several years, one song became another. Veno began building his own studio, learning to produce the record himself and slowly rediscovering the part of himself he thought he had left behind. He describes those lost years as feeling like there was always “a devil on my back”: the guilt of never following up that first record, of walking away from a dream, and of knowing somewhere underneath the anxiety, depression and misery that he had not become the person he once believed he could be. Hungry Soul is the story of finding the way back. Not back to 2011. Not back to the person he used to be. But through his own dark night of the soul and toward something on the other side. 10 songs. A lot of darkness. A lot of hope.