finally released on 21 May 2007. Several members of the band departed in the meantime: In October 2006, original member Brent Fox decided to leave the band, leaving Gary Smith as the only original member. Fox was replaced by Rommily Smith. Guitarist William Cleverdon, who had earlier taken a hiatus of several months, was forced to leave in January 2007 after he was required to undergo a series of surgeries on his left wrist and forearm. Christian Humphreys, a member of Rommily's other band, New Way Home, replaced Cleverdon Lyrics on Poison of Ages were written by Ben Read and Gary Smith, and the album as a whole was influenced by blackened death metal. 2009 Gary Smith returned from injury to rejoin the band. Jamie Saint Merat left the band to relocate with his other band, Ulcerate. 8 Foot Sativa, still working on a new unnamed album, released a new single called Sleepwalkers. The video to this single is controversial, as it follows a calf from the farm, to the freezing works showing it being killed, then chopped up by butchers, before being sold to a family in a supermarket. It does this in graphical disturbing way. It also shows pigs and chickens being held in cages. A message at the end of the video states "Thousands of animals were harmed in the making of this video." In July 2009, bassist Romilly Smith left the band, with Steve Boag, of In Dread Response, taking his spot. Before heading to the studio to record the new still unnamed album, 8 Foot Sativa are to travel New Zealand, performing final shows, with In Dread Response, New Way Home, Bloodletting, The Rest Is Silence.., and other various local acts across New Zealand 2010 In January 2010, 8 Foot Sativa went into hiatus due to the continued effects of Smith's injury. The remaining members formed a new band project, The Mark of Man, while Smith continued his recovery. 2011 After a couple of years on hiatus, the social media connected fan base started talking and rumours began when the band's Facebook page was completely stripped back and saturated by their original theme and imagery including the one and only "dopeman" the band's featured character and mascot which became the band's non-forgettable logo and animated menace seen in their early music videos, a tall and cheeky Sativa plant usually pulling himself in and around war