As anticipation builds for the release of Riven By Ravens’ debut 14-song album, “Venerate,” we had the privilege to catch up with the band’s founding members. With a musical journey that spans decades and influences ranging from Tool to A Perfect Circle, the California-based hard rock duo shares insights into the creation of their progressive masterpiece and the driving forces behind their musical endeavour.
Can you take us through the journey of creating your debut album, “Venerate”? How did the concept and theme evolve throughout the songwriting process?
I’ve been making and playing music since I was 5 years old, and I have to say that creating this album was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. “Venerate,” may very well be the most interesting and beautiful piece of music and art I have been a part of so far. Brian and I are so incredibly proud and excited to share this album with the world.
What started as simply recording a song together instantly became a massive 14 song concept album and a full band. There was something so exciting and special in the studio when we recorded that first song. We both knew that we were at the start of something unique and we just let it unfold. Having a history in our previous band, Ghost Army, we had a foundation of riffs and ideas that gave us a nice template to work off. We spent the better part of a year and a half writing, recording, and mixing our music in our Visalia home studio.
Brian and I share a very similar drive and passion for creating music, so the writing and the recording came very organically. We have really good communication with each other and very comfortably feed off each other’s ideas. As we got deeper and deeper into the recording process things began to get more and more creative and the pieces of the album seemed to just naturally fall into place. The album concepts began to explore a variety of things including personal relationships, traumas, pain, loss, death, respect, the media and even government corruption. Both of us write and perform from a place of extreme passion, more than any sort of technical standpoint. So, in some way we just let the music send us in different directions. By the time we finished the entire album it had taken on its own strong personality and presence.
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