Fully expecting to fall by the wayside long before this point, here we
stand amazed at our ability to get over our selves and the adversities
life throws at us. While we try to keep good humor and fun at the top of
the menu, there's always a sense of achievement underlying all that we do.
When you look over your shoulder and find your mates all pulling their
weight...Frankly, it's empowering and energizing.
So on we happily trudge
through the muck of our muddy Michigan music scene.Mark Morton from Lamb Of God recently made a statement that caught my eye:
'As long as the five of us enjoy making music together, nothing else
matters...fans included.' (or something to that effect).
There's only four of us in Animom, but man, that statement hit home. We
aren't trying to catch the next popular train or fad. We are what we are,
and we'd be jamming in Russ's living room anyway. Might as well go out &
gig! There's never cancellations or excuses. Norm makes sure of that. He's
in the construction business all year long, and especially if he's been
framing or roofing...you'd better be in a body bag before calling off
practice...He'll be there with bells on ready to work, aching and
hobbling, never complaining.
While it's difficult to pigeon hole us into
any one genre, we think we're Classic Rock and Classic Metal
combined, striving for the best musical future we can construct.
A recent
interview with The Lansing NOISE pegged us as 'Energetic, loud & fun' and
sounding something akin to Saliva. We get the modern Led Zeppelin with
Slayer overtones tag too (is that possible???).
New songs we're writing are more structurally complex and progressive with
everyone doing their best to bring a catchy 'hook' to their parts.
Spanky
has been getting a lot of compliments lately and just wait until you hear
the new stuff. We've been "wood shedding" and it shows. One new song
'Take
Me Home' is about animal cruelty and how they forgive our worst, senseless
brutalities - becoming our best friends when we rescue them. This new song
is already in our set list with fist punching power, getting great crowd
response and approval.
'GreedLust' is hot off the press and is a twisted
songwriting clinic of deliciousness-we can't wait to play it out to see
how it's received. There's hair raising goose bumps listening back to the
practice tapes of it.
We just released a 5TH CD 'NO RULES' in December 2007. You might think
we'd be kicking back & taking it easy for a minute, but I already have a
manila file folder on my desk with studio notes for our next recording
(it'll be a while, but there's no such thing as too many notes!).
Happily,
it looks like we'll be able to continue to record with Tim Lau of 'Laud
Productions' with him flying up here from Florida and working at 'P.O.ed
Productions' with Pat Ondrus co-producing at the helm (Pat just remodeled
his studio so as to be able to record drums as well as all the other
tracks, now making him a full service recording studio. THANK YOU PAT!!!). Guess I'd like to drop a name here,
our wizard Mr. Lau has just finished recording 'Soulfly' (ex-Sepultura / Max Cavalera) for the
'Roadrunner
Records' label and it will be AWESOME to finally see his name on something
top level professional & distributed worldwide.
We started off
recording with him. He knows our sound. He has our back, and calling him a
'wizard' isn't far off the mark. Listening to 'NO RULES' proves that. With
him & Pat at 'P.O.ed Productions' there is already splendid speculation
about the next CD.
Both these gentlemen are on our MySpace top 8 friends
list, so be sure to check them out.
We also need to thank the following:
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Sandra Murry at Sphinx Custom Graphics &
Web Design for creating, hosting and being the Webmaster for our
official
Animal Mother Website. |
Our faithful booking agents, Marcus & Kim at Deadground Productions
- Flint, MI.
Dave at Blackstain Productions
- Flint, MI.
Bruce & Tara at Bruiser Booking - Kalamazoo, MI.
Jeremy at Oades Hidden Camel Bar - Lansing, MI.
A.J. at Planet Rock - Battle Creek, MI.
Aaron Harraman - Grand Rapids, MI.
Without them, well...We'd still be jamming in Russ's living room! I do
a lion's share of booking through our
MySpace Account.
So if you want us to play your show, get a hold of us there or at
517-372-3790 and ask for Jaye or Norm.
Please visit both sites and check out the new music and merchandise
stores.
Hope to see you out there soon! METAL ON! |
