Shannow

I have never trusted anything that requires the lights to be on before it can be discussed.

Some things are dark.

Pretending otherwise does not improve them.

I could write exclusively about sunshine, optimism and the magnificent spiritual experience of drinking artisan coffee.

But I would be lying.

Darkness does not automatically mean despair.

Sometimes it is simply where the interesting questions live.

Why do people believe what they believe?

Why do they obey things they privately despise?

Why does morality become surprisingly flexible when money is involved?

Why do people demand honesty and then become offended when they receive it?

Those questions interest me.

So I put them into songs.

Preferably with a large distorted guitar underneath them.

— SHANNOW

SHANNOW.

Songwriter. Producer. Vocalist.

Progressive metal and alternative metal are the machinery. Everything else is just noise around it.

I write about the things people usually soften before saying aloud: uncomfortable truths, human contradiction, isolation, hypocrisy, belief, consequence and the darker machinery running underneath ordinary life.

I have principles. They are not available for negotiation.

You do not have to agree with them.

That would be an extremely inefficient requirement.

I am autistic, literal, occasionally dry, frequently misunderstood and generally uninterested in pretending otherwise.

Expect music. Lyrics. Production thoughts. Observations. Questions with inconvenient answers. Possibly the occasional Victorian industrial contraption.

Welcome to the workshop.

— SHANNOW

Progressive metal and alternative metal are the machinery. Everything else is just noise around it.

I write about the things people usually soften before saying aloud: uncomfortable truths, human contradiction, isolation, hypocrisy, belief, consequence and the darker cogs turning underneath ordinary life.

I have principles. They are not available for negotiation.

You do not have to agree with them.

That would be an extremely inefficient requirement.

I am autistic, literal, occasionally dry, frequently misunderstood and generally uninterested in pretending otherwise.

Expect music. Lyrics. Production thoughts. Observations. Questions with inconvenient answers. Possibly the occasional Victorian industrial contraption.

Welcome to my workshop.