The Defining Choice marks the follow-up to the one-man project's difficult to comprehend 2008 release, The Extinction Paradox. Expect ferocity, audacity, and frantic riffing.

Chris Passas comments, "Elephant's goal with each CD is to lay every other Elephant CD to waste. Each new album is not only the best at the time, but also the standard that must be destroyed with the next album. The Defining Choice features the best riffs Elephant has ever created, lyrics that I don't even understand yet, and rhythms that avoid conventional accents and tempos. It sounds complex when I describe it, but I think fans will hear it and be surprised at how well these ideas work together."

"This is an esoteric metalhead's wet dream as distorted chaotic guitar-oriented frenzy is dressed up in minimalist production, breaking down your mental faculties and causing you to lose control of all bodily functions." ---Metal Observer