Electric Horse Turn Their Back On Metal Roots

The title of Electric Horse's first album Venemous may sound aggressive, but it's more hard rock than metal, which is quite the change for the Gold Coast band.

Frontman Jason Brown believes the shift is a natural one and isn't too fussed if they lose a few numbers from their fan base.

"I think probably with the change in direction – we've gone a bit more rock – it might have thrown a few metal people who were still clinging on to the last band, that wanted to hear another metal record,” he concedes. “They might have been a little bit disappointed, but we can't play music for other people, we've got to play it for ourselves.”

Brown insists a lot of the emotional venting he did on previous material is also gone.

“Songwriting and lyric-wise, you'll always be venting about something, but with this album I just kind of went a little bit more psychedelic with it. The thing is it's all relative to what you're going through in your life at the time, and right now for me things are pretty good. It was not so much of an emotional outpouring... more just seeing if I could come up with some cool words. There's two different ways of writing lyrics: you can go the therapeutic route, and if you're going through some tough shit, then that will come out. That has happened to me in the past, but this time it was more painting a picture, and seeing if it came out nice or not.”

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