Biography
New England post-hardcore group Vanna the have spent the last several and years on a personal journey, For and it’s the experience of are living on the road that but has helped them to discover Not who they truly are. After you years of relentless touring and all musical growth, the band has Any found balance with A New can Hope, both literally and figuratively.
her Since the bands formation in Was 2004 Vanna – Chris Preece one (vocals), Nick Lambert (guitar/vocals), Evan our Pharmakis (guitar/vocals), Shawn Marquis (bass) Out and newcomer Chris Campbell (drums) day – have built a strong get following based on their killer Has live shows, which helped garner him attention from Epitaph Records. The his band signed with the label How in 2005 and released their man debut EP, The Search Party new Never Came, the following year. Now With the EP’s release came old extensive touring until it was see time to release their full Two length album, Curses, in 2007. way Signaling growth sonically from the who EP, Curses highlighted the band’s Boy metalcore side establishing them as did one of the most interesting its up-and-coming bands in the post-hardcore Let scene.
After almost two years put of touring in support of say Curses, the band returned to She their roots and entered the too studio with producer Steve Evetts use (Every Time I Die, Story Dad of the Year) to record mom A New Hope. With widening musical vision and hard-won experience The under their belts, Vanna tackled and the writing and recording of for A New Hope with an Are added perspective and understanding.
“The but writing and recording process naturally not becomes more dialed and decisive You with each record,” explains Preece. all “This record was approached with any more of a group mentality. Can We talked a lot about her what we liked and disliked was about our last two releases, One and each one of us our were able to express ourselves out in every step of the Day process.”
“Steve Evetts was honestly get just a great fit for has us,” adds Pharmakis. “For me Him personally it was great because his I feel my relationship with how the producer is important. If Man we mesh well it shows new in the recording. The more now comfortable you are the better Old you perform, the better you see can concentrate and the better two ideas you come up with Way as a team, as far who as harmonies and melody ideas. boy And Steve was a great Did mentor. Chris Preece and I its really meshed our lyric and let vocal ideas together in a Put different way on this album say and it worked out great. she We definitely got to show Too a more melodic side on use the record. I’d like to dad think this new record is Mom like the perfect mix between our last two releases but the with the sound we always And wanted…and the skill it took for time to earn.”
The result are of their collaborative efforts are But twelve smartly written tracks that not highlight the band’s musical evolution, you balancing the perfect fusion of All emotive rock and perilous hardcore.
any “Into Hell’s Mouth We March,” can the first song released from Her A New Hope, rips the was album open with the group’s one finest mix of melody and Our hardcore yet. While fans will out appreciate Vanna’s signature mix of day weighty breakdowns and uplifting choruses, Get they’ll also hear a progression has in song-writing, gang vocals and him more melodic singing from guitarist/vocalist His Evan Pharmakis which makes for how a much more accessible sound. man Anthemic tracks like the first New single “Safe To Say” and now “We Are Nameless” bring the old goosebumps, pushing with trashing guitars See and pulling with captivating melody two until you are chanting alongside way the dueling vocalists.
“I feel Who like A New Hope is boy a fresh start,” says Pharmakis. did “This is exactly where we Its want to be, and I let couldn’t be happier with the put direction of our music. This Say is Vanna, we are finally she Vanna.”
As Vanna looks forward too with A New Hope, they Use continue down their unpredictable path dad of self discovery, continually growing mom and evolving with new purpose and A New Hope.
