10/13/23

I wrote VENOM three years ago in college. At the time I realized that for years I had been telling myself “I want to write music” without actually creating and finishing any of my own songs, so I just said “screw it” and started writing and recording a bunch of demos on my laptop (Pro Tools on a 2017 gaming laptop!! I'm surprised I didn't accidentally create a supernova in my room).

The next day I sat in front of my computer and just strummed power chords for like 3 minutes straight. After that I read through my lyric sheets to see if anything would stick and I found some I had written a month prior. I started singing them to the power chords and it worked. I scrambled to record some scratch vocals and over the next three days I finished the first demo. 

It didn't sound great, but I realized this was a song I had to share, so I spent more time learning how to use Pro Tools, and when I came home I worked with my dad and we re-recorded… and re-recorded… and re-recorded VENOM… also I rewrote the lyrics completely, lol. The end result is the version you hear now.

Hopefully you found this interesting. Thank you for reading :)