Ya know, you may nonetheless love Jesus and love steel…apparently. And due to this, Venture 86 was among the many fashionable acts in Christian steel. They went into retirement some time in the past, however a reside video recorded yesterday (October 10) by frontman Andrew Schwab revealed his objectives of resurrecting (wink wink) the band below the title P86 Omni.
The PRP did the great work of transcribing complete video, so if you happen to can’t watch it, then scroll by the very lengthy scripture beneath.
“Clearly, I introduced the tip of Venture 86 some nearly 5 years in the past and since then have been making the stuff to go together with that cycle. The double album, ‘Omni‘, which was actually enjoyable to work on and the books. So, the place are we at proper now? The place are my eyes pointing for the long run and the way does this all play out? Nicely, let me first clarify my choice to announce the tip of Venture 86. Two causes for this: One, creatively talking, I felt like we have been chasing our tails — I used to be chasing my very own tail personally — for a really very long time. Clearly, we had some very excessive factors early within the profession.
“Uh, highlighted by Drawing Black Traces. Another mentionable highlights, particularly ‘Wait For The Siren‘, later-stage profession. Venture 86. However I all the time felt like, particularly in latest historical past, that the inventive field that was painted for this band and for this entity was very properly outlined, particularly by the tip of album 10, which was Sheep Amongst Wolves.
“Early on within the profession, a nü-metal/submit hardcore sound after which every thing after that was a bit extra of a tough rock sort of factor. And I felt, I don’t know if the the phrase is stifled, however I felt creatively stagnant for a number of album cycles. Prefer it was getting tougher and tougher and tougher to jot down new music.
You sit down to jot down a riff or a tune and it’s like, ‘No, we did that on album 7. No, we did that on album 4. No, we did that on album two.’ And it simply felt stale. Plus every thing associated to the legacy of Venture 86 — particularly the old-fashioned legacy, there’s some, I don’t know if the phrase is baggage related to that, however there’s undoubtedly an impression in individuals’s minds of what that factor was.
“I used to be all the time preventing in opposition to that each step of the best way, each album. We tried plenty of issues. We have been creatively schizophrenic alongside the best way and I had a hankering to strive some various things that weren’t actually Venture 86, sonically. And that got here out in the course of the album cycle —the final album cycle — on ‘Omni‘ the place I mentioned principally, screw it. I’m going to do one thing that’s much more aggressive, loads darker, and sort of a special lyrical method; sci-fi, cyberpunk, a extra steel method.
“So, sort of every thing I wished to do however felt like possibly wasn’t the best match for Venture and I simply mentioned, ‘Screw it. That is what I need to do.’ Together with writing a novel and doing animated music movies and reside present visuals and even an ARG. These have been all issues that have been part of the ‘Omni‘ cycle that I by no means had the prospect to do on the earlier Venture 86 album cycles, if that is sensible.
“There was sort of a inventive reinvention that was very intentional and type of me deliberately, utilizing the identical phrase twice, departing from the standard Venture 86 method. And that was a vital train for me to really feel impressed once more. The opposite a part of me type of asserting the tip of Venture 86 was, simply to be frank, a priority over my ageing vocal cords and the standard Schwab shout. And I speak about all this within the ‘I. Want. Fact‘ e-book —to not shamelessly plug, however to shamelessly plug, you guys ought to take a look at the e-book the place I speak about all this extra.
“I simply felt like I’d attain a sure level, having struggled with vocal accidents through the years, a vocal twine nodule that I developed 20 plus years in the past on the Truthless Heroes album cycle that simply the Schwab shout was going to run its course fairly quickly. I had some scares alongside the best way the place I felt like my voice simply wasn’t going to final anymore and I wanted to do one thing to reinvent that.
Satirically, by the Omni album cycle, uh, I began going loads heavier with my vocal method. And imagine it or not, that led to a lot much less vocal fatigue reside and within the studio. And it felt like a whole inventive reinvention from the best way that I used to be singing, to the visible identification, to the sonic identification uh, to the lyrical method.
“The conclusion that I got here to within the course of of constructing Omni was one, man, if it may really feel like this, I’d undoubtedly be open to doing extra of this type of stuff as a result of that is actually enjoyable. I’m not shedding my voice. I’m not stressing about it. I’m not feeling this type of spectre or this shadow of getting to reside as much as Drawing Black Traces or Spy Hunter and even Fall Goliath Fall. this can be a model new factor in each approach.
“So possibly that is only a pure type of reband, restart, reboot, reinvention. And that’s the conclusion I got here to in the direction of the tip of the Omni cycle, or the tip of recording Omni. It’s like look, I introduced the tip of Venture 86 and I meant it, however that is one thing model new. And this will appear arbitrary to all of you. However for me, I wanted a whole reboot and a restart. And it what it actually got here all the way down to was I’m taking some dangers right here, creatively to go in a brand new course. A heavier, extra steel, extra digital, extra thematic, much less overtly non secular — however non secular nonetheless — simply otherwise, with the method right here. And if all people likes it, then possibly this factor has legs. This concept of reinventing it.
“It turned out that individuals for probably the most half actually dug the Omni stuff musically. It was fairly thrilling. It was actually thrilling for me, which is what I wanted to make extra of it. Nevertheless it was very thrilling for lots of you. And that was all of the containers checked for me to no less than entertain the thought of happening this street once more.
“What does that seem like? Nicely, I really feel prefer it’s nonetheless within the spirit of Venture 86, nevertheless it’s sort of a model new moniker and reinvention. So I really feel like transferring ahead what makes probably the most sense is to name this factor P86 Omni and to proceed the thematics, the narrative, the story, the conceptual worldbuilding that we began in Omni Half One and half two and proceed that into an element three and past. And make each cycle include a novel, include a narrative, include worldbuilding and include addressing of the rising technocratic order in the true world, our relationship with expertise so to talk.
“And categorical my sentiments and ideas about it on this approach, on this inventive expression of mankind’s type of darkish nature as he pertains to innovation. So, I don’t know if all that is resonating with you guys or not. However I’m explaining probably the most thrilling choice that I’ve to announce shortly right here, and that’s extra music is coming.
“I’m formally asserting Omni Half 3 is coming down the pipe, and we’re going to begin the pre-order and Patreon to help this, to boost funds for this subsequent month. I’m simply lining up a number of items of the puzzle in order that we are able to launch this factor as quickly as potential in time for the vacations. I’m November tenth proper now. If every thing strains up, that would be the date. It could find yourself being a little bit later. We’ll be posting a ton about this on all of our socials. Search for a trailer. Search for visuals.
“What does that imply? Nicely, identical to we’ve achieved on the latest album cycles, an extended lead pre-order. Nevertheless, this shall be a a lot shorter cycle. I can’t be asserting a double album. It is going to be a single album with a e-book. The e-book will come later, in all probability as like a stretch purpose. And we’re a one-year turnaround. So, I’m giving my workforce principally a 9-month window from asserting this to complete producing the music.
“The purpose right here, I have already got loads lined up: a manufacturing workforce, artists, graphic artists. We’re already working with a theme. I have already got an album cowl idea title. I have already got a top level view for the e-book. I have already got a top level view for the album. I have already got half the songs ideated when it comes to lyrics. A number of it’s already… I’ve been engaged on it the final 3 months. So, it’s in movement and we’re going to hit the bottom working.
“I actually wished to capitalize on the momentum that we created, the brand new momentum we created with Omni Half 2 and this vitality and pleasure I really feel for this world that we’ve began to construct and the thematics. And actually all of this revolves across the emergence of AI and all the fast-moving bulletins that we see every day which can be altering our world when it comes to how we relate to at least one one other and every thing in between. The way it’s going to have an effect on our lifespans, our well being, our impending merger with synthetic intelligence and past.
“So, I’m actually excited to work on this and convey it to life right here within the months to return. we really simply completed a model new tune that could be a Patreon unique for our platinum members. I do know you guys are going to kill me for that, nevertheless it’s a deliverable that I wanted to present that I promised to these increased tier highest tier Patreon supporters as a fruit, excuse me, of supporting this earlier cycle.”
