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James Wood is a writer, musician and self-proclaimed metalhead who maintains his own website,. Keep up with This Moment on Facebook and at their official website. We have a lot of good opportunities ahead of us and Maria and I are putting all of our energy into that. We’re going to be finishing out the year on a tour with Halestorm and are beginning to make plans to headline next year. People like Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. And I’ve always been a follower of great players like George Lynch, Warren DeMartini and the Shrapnel Records guys. This song is a close call with The Promise but I think that its. Who were some of your early guitar influences? she hits the vocals just right and it gives. The quote buy when there is blood in the streets was coined by Baron Rothschild from the 18th century after the panic that ensued after the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon. Then, we’ll go through them with Kevin and pick out which style we like best for the song and use that rough match to go back and write lyrics with. We’ll work on a few musical passages and before we even begin to write lyrics, she’ll hum along to them and skit-skat a bunch of different voices and ideas for a verse or chorus. That’s how Maria writes most of her melodies. Is that the way a lot of your songs are written?

The meaning behind it is what also makes it so cool. Maria was listening to the music and just started skit-skatting a couple of different patterns and almost instantly began singing “Let me tell you something baby …” It was so catchy. Maria came up with that line pretty quickly. I especially liked the line, “Let me tell you something, baby … you love me for everything you hate me for” from the song “Whore.” It sparked the whole record.Ī lot of the lyrics that you and Maria write are so profound.

But our outlook has always been, “Let’s just go for it! If it’s cool, then let’s do it!” It felt so fresh and so different that we just rolled with it. It was something that we had never done before. Once it was finished, we really didn’t know what we had. Then we all got together and hashed it out and it became what it is. Maria and I took what they had written and came up with our own version of it. They had written a rough version of Blood with the same groove for the chorus but with a completely different verse. Maria and I were working on some songs with Kevin and his son, Kane. How did the song come about?īlood popped out of a weird situation. The title track of the album is much different than anything you’ve ever done before. In the studio, I used the Schecter and EMG for rhythm and occasionally would use a Les Paul or Strat for some of my solos. I use them exclusively along with EMG pickups for touring. What guitars did you use for this project? He wasn’t worried at all about the band members leaving or our management situation he just wanted to help us make a great record. Kevin had worked with us on the past few albums and was another driving force in getting this one done too. Blood reunited you once again with producer Kevin Churko.