Johnny Craven

Johnny Craven

About Johnny Craven

Johnny Craven is an Industrial Rock / Alternative Rock band created by namesake lead singer Johnny Craven between Barcelona and New York in 2018. The band, initially, started as an alternative and personal project by Johnny as a songwriter and inevitably degenerated as a rock band. They gained a significant cult following in Europe in the early 2019s with their early release of "unofficial" demos and their shocking live performances. "(...) I was playing in some bands, composing and playing live...none of that satisfied my artistic appetites...then i started writing songs without the musical or psychological barriers imposed by others" _Johnny Craven Early Live Shows During their early shows, the band members dressed in outlandish makeup and goth-scfi costumes, and engaged in bizarre behavior both onstage and off. Their lyrics often received criticism for their anti-religious and anti-social sentiment and references to sex, violence, anarchy and occultism, while their shocking live performances were frequently called offensive and obscene. Bleed "Bleed" released on November 1, 2020, is the first official recording by Johnny Craven, a very special maxi-single which includes "Bleed" (Album version) (the first single from "MACH1NƎ" (the debut studio long play album (Release 2021)). Post-Produced and mixed by the emergent producer and musician Charles Kallaghan Massabo (Davey Suicide, Falling In Reverse...) in Kallaghan Studios in Los Angeles, California, and mastered by the legendary mastering engineer Ted Jensen. "Bleed" includes remixes and alternative versions of the song, reinterpretations made by Nero Bellum [from Psyclon 9, Not My God (Nero´s project with Tim Skold), etc...]; the Grammy-award-winning mix legend, the producer Philip Larsen [Soft Cell, Katy Perry, Kylie Minogue, Moby, Lady Gaga, Manhattan Clique...]; Billboard Nº1 electronic producer Gosteffects [Duran Duran, Ladytron, Army Of The Universe, Fischerspooner...]; the frontman and singer Jay Gordon from Orgy; the left hand path writer and well-known occultist Michael W. Ford under the name of Akhtya (his ritualistic music project); Azaria, the electronic project created by Carlos Calderón, chief producer at Rec Division Studios and ex-Cycle; and the band´s live keyboardist and machinery-boy 6-35. This recording also includes b-sides/outtakes as bonus tracks, the "interlude": "Again" and the head banging track: "Bang Bang". Machine The band´s first studio album "MACH1NƎ", which is under construction, with Charles Kallaghan in the charge of the post production and the mix again, and Johnny sharing co-production duties and all of the song writing process as well. The album will be a compilation of reworked tracks from the early band's demos, as well as songs composed for this recording. (and it will be released in 2021) "(...) "MACH1NƎ" will be a cryptic work, which does not relate, but rather is influenced by a story and its applications to real life or possible lifes... _Johnny Craven -about "MACH1NƎ" and its lyric content The main character of the story is 7 (Seven)...much of the lyrics -always with double and even triple meanings- speak of his flight, self-destruction... his catharsis, his encounter with the chaos... and his interaction with the alter ego, digital entity or etheric intelligence "The Spider"... _Johnny Craven -about "MACH1NƎ" and its lyric content These songs are just echoes or symptoms of the influence of the communion and exchange of actions between these two characters, and the inspiration given by their story, a story with open source, alive and in constant expansion, as a multimedia egregore... _Johnny Craven -about "MACH1NƎ" and its lyric content (The story) Even influenced, interpreted and therefore constructed by the listener... the story itself is not written, ordered or concluded... and it´s valid to be prescribed and used in many other ways..." _Johnny Craven -about "MACH1NƎ" and its lyric content ""The figure of "The Spider" appeared to me in dreams or in what i thought was an astral projection... an entity which was emanating a huge dark power... he just said out loud: "I am the spider that weaves the threads"..." _Johnny Craven -about "The Spider" "(...) sounds from the past and the future, influences of the 80s and 90s as fuzzy memories of a past future that never happened, or at least in the world conceived as real ..." _Johnny Craven -about "MACH1NƎ" and its sound Conceptual Vision Johnny Craven is a temporary human creator reincarnated on a Tuesday on the planet you call Earth. _Johnny Craven -about himself “All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.” _Johnny Craven -about art, beauty and its perception

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