$8.99
Sold by music on Tradebit
The world's largest download marketplace
3,251,313 satisfied buyers
The world's largest download marketplace
3,251,313 satisfied buyers
MP3 Venomin James - Crowe Valley Blues
12 MP3 Songs in this album (60:49) !
Related styles: Metal/Punk: Doom/Stoner Metal, Rock: Hard Rock, Mood: Angry
People who are interested in Black Sabbath Down Kyuss should consider this download.
Details:
The quixotic moniker sludge merchants emanating from Kirtland, Ohio’s version of the Bermuda Triangle, are a mystery, wrapped in an enigma. Swampy southern doom on the classic, traditional metal roster of the venerable Auburn Records. How does singer Jim Meador make sense of the contradictions? “Most of the guys are from Kirtland,” says Meador. “It has this reputation, a weird vibe. It’s an affluent area. It was the first encampment of Mormons. There have been cult slayings there. It has one of the highest elevations in the State, huge valleys. It’s got a creepy feeling.” Might explain the mindset of the music! “We’re real different. We don’t fit the Auburn mold,” he states matter of factly. “It’s hard rock with metal elements sprinkled throughout. A heavy organic feel.”
So how did Crowe Valley Blues come to join the Auburn family? “When we released our first album, Left Hand Man, we sent it off to all the radio stations. Bill Peters (WJCU disc jockey and Auburn Records president) is the Pope of Cleveland metal. He called us to come down the station and do an on-air interview. We’d run into some issues with other people saying they wanted to invest in us, but they turned out not to be trustworthy. His integrity and character is what made us want to work with Auburn. We produced our second album, Crowe Valley Blues, ourselves. Bill helped us with the mastering and will release it under his label.”
The DIY (do-it-yourself) ethic has long been part of VENOMIN JAMES, even prior to Meador’s involvement. “A lot of the first album was written before the drummer and I came onboard. We took what they had and rolled with it. It got great responses from all over, but especially Europe.” Switching to the new disc, he continues, “Crowe Valley Blues, I’m really proud of it. Everyone contributed and we’ve locked onto what our sound is. We’ve got a chemistry and when we come together, we click on all cylinders. Most of it comes pretty easily. The production is a couple of notches higher than Left Hand Man and the songwriting is very strong. There’s one song we held back from the Left Hand Man sessions, called ‘Death’s Wings’. It didn’t really fit the first album. We stripped it down and changed a few things for the new one. Everything else was written since the recording of that first record.”
That would include ‘Cosmonaut’, described by the vocalist as having, “some twists and turns. It has a lot of intricate guitar work going on. Lyrically, it’s a contemplation song, viewing your life from a macro perspective; viewing the time continuum from a larger prospective and realizing the things people fret about on a day-to-day basis, the things that bring them down (emotionally) are really insignificant.” Another favorite for the frontman is ‘Desert Rider’. “That’s pretty straight forward. I listened to the demo and within five minutes, I’d written the song. I started listening and I got the vision of being on a Harley, cruising through the desert, in New Mexico, at night. It’s about dropping off the grid, reacquainting with ones self, isolation. I’ve spent a lot of time in the desert (as part of his military tour of duty in Iraq). I love it. There’s something about it, very mystical. Desolation and isolation brings you back to yourself, since you don’t have any distractions.”
Turn on, tune in and drop out.
File Data