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Alright! This update is for all the friends, fans and promoters out there wondering just what in the hell is going on with Vehemence! For one thing is we like to thank Adam Cody from Glass Casket for helping us out on the 1 month ½ tour in April/May that got cut in half due to some shows not coughing up the guarantees that were agreed upon before us leaving. The tour started 3/21/05 and we drove from IL to AZ in a day a half and got back on 5/1/05. Stuff happens like that on the road, but that ultimately killed our budget to continue further on the tour and we are sorry for that. We will make it up by working hard to finish writing our album so we can get back out on the road. Sometimes we would rely on our merchandise profit to help us get through rough times but just how many times can you take from that until you start digging in your own pockets to recoup. We would also like to thank our other temporary vocalist Bryan Edwards from Clifton for the 2 week run in April we headlined with Thine Eyes Bleed and his own band Clifton.
We are starting up a street team soon, we never had a budget to do that in the past but now we are going to start to hook up our fans with promotional materials that can help fuel our tours, thus doing most of the promoters jobs for them to secure huge attendance at our shows. Supporting your local scene is the best thing you can do, our Arizona scene has grown into a monster because everyone got off their ass this past year.
As for a new vocalist, everyone seems to still be confused who that is after we had made a statement earlier about it on our website. Sean Vandegrift (ex-From A Second Story Window) will be moving to Phoenix, AZ this summer and is our permanent new vocalist. He is a family man but that factor in his life is sorted out now. We stayed at his apartment on this tour the guy is really educated and hilarious. I think he is the perfect front man for our band. He will be living with Bjorn our other guitarist and lyric writing has already begun. We cant tell you what the lyrics are going to be about just yet but they will be just as viable and diverse as our last albums. For one thing we arent going to be bashing religion or women anymore, we had that for our first 3 albums, and they were all great, just a different direction thats all we are going for with the lyrics.
Also, for all those that are confused about why our last vocalist Nathan Gearhart left Vehemence was because when we got back after the September Mortician/Akercocke tour we did in 2004 he got a phone call from Chiles Bar and Grill Restaurant and they offered him a management job and he took that route out to help support his family and his new child that he had at the time which is respectable! As Nathan said in this forum, he has another kick ass band now and we can't wait to hear them live and get their recordings. Having 3 boys plus with a management job is quite the handful to be out on the road touring for a long time and we respect his decision of leaving the band.
Everyone thinking we are going to play hardcore music now since we have a vocalist directly from that scene, grow up and break free from your close minded elitist ways! We are a band that ranges in styles of everything death metal, black metal, metal, punk, hardcore, melodic, just everything ya know. If you cant respect that we dont want you listening to our music anyways because none of us in the band are like that. We are maturing as a band and our music will only get heavier and craftier, I guess you have to define your own terms of what is heavy and take a good look at who we are and not just our clothes. We are in an era change right now and it seems fashion is a huge part of it, and its just as every scene has been throughout the years, live with it and just respect one another. Moshing, Dancing has been around forever, we dont mind any of that please do what you feel like at our shows.
Be sure to check our website at http://www.vehemence.com for new pictures featuring both of the temporary vocalists that helped us out.
More pics here http://www.metalpic.com/Slide_Shows/Vehemence/index.htm
http://www.transformonline.com/music/articles/002213.php
Alright! This update is for all the friends, fans and promoters out there wondering just what in the hell is going on with Vehemence! For one thing is we like to thank Adam Cody from Glass Casket for helping us out on the 1 month ½ tour in April/May that got cut in half due to some shows not coughing up the guarantees that were agreed upon before us leaving. The tour started 3/21/05 and we drove from IL to AZ in a day a half and got back on 5/1/05. Stuff happens like that on the road, but that ultimately killed our budget to continue further on the tour and we are sorry for that. We will make it up by working hard to finish writing our album so we can get back out on the road. Sometimes we would rely on our merchandise profit to help us get through rough times but just how many times can you take from that until you start digging in your own pockets to recoup. We would also like to thank our other temporary vocalist Bryan Edwards from Clifton for the 2 week run in April we headlined with Thine Eyes Bleed and his own band Clifton.
We are starting up a street team soon, we never had a budget to do that in the past but now we are going to start to hook up our fans with promotional materials that can help fuel our tours, thus doing most of the promoters jobs for them to secure huge attendance at our shows. Supporting your local scene is the best thing you can do, our Arizona scene has grown into a monster because everyone got off their ass this past year.
As for a new vocalist, everyone seems to still be confused who that is after we had made a statement earlier about it on our website. Sean Vandegrift (ex-From A Second Story Window) will be moving to Phoenix, AZ this summer and is our permanent new vocalist. He is a family man but that factor in his life is sorted out now. We stayed at his apartment on this tour the guy is really educated and hilarious. I think he is the perfect front man for our band. He will be living with Bjorn our other guitarist and lyric writing has already begun. We cant tell you what the lyrics are going to be about just yet but they will be just as viable and diverse as our last albums. For one thing we arent going to be bashing religion or women anymore, we had that for our first 3 albums, and they were all great, just a different direction thats all we are going for with the lyrics.
Also, for all those that are confused about why our last vocalist Nathan Gearhart left Vehemence was because when we got back after the September Mortician/Akercocke tour we did in 2004 he got a phone call from Chiles Bar and Grill Restaurant and they offered him a management job and he took that route out to help support his family and his new child that he had at the time which is respectable! As Nathan said in this forum, he has another kick ass band now and we can't wait to hear them live and get their recordings. Having 3 boys plus with a management job is quite the handful to be out on the road touring for a long time and we respect his decision of leaving the band.
Everyone thinking we are going to play hardcore music now since we have a vocalist directly from that scene, grow up and break free from your close minded elitist ways! We are a band that ranges in styles of everything death metal, black metal, metal, punk, hardcore, melodic, just everything ya know. If you cant respect that we dont want you listening to our music anyways because none of us in the band are like that. We are maturing as a band and our music will only get heavier and craftier, I guess you have to define your own terms of what is heavy and take a good look at who we are and not just our clothes. We are in an era change right now and it seems fashion is a huge part of it, and its just as every scene has been throughout the years, live with it and just respect one another. Moshing, Dancing has been around forever, we dont mind any of that please do what you feel like at our shows.
Be sure to check our website at http://www.vehemence.com for new pictures featuring both of the temporary vocalists that helped us out.
More pics here http://www.metalpic.com/Slide_Shows/Vehemence/index.htm
