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…right off the bat. We wrote, arranged, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered our material in the comfort of our studio. Does it stand up to a $60 per hour studio that young bands have to race in and out of, get a couple of takes, and has to make quick compromises? I say hell yes. Vatic is some what of an experiment. What would you do if you had all your own recording equipment and endless access to non-linear editing software? We’ve taken our time. We’ve massaged our songs, shaped our songs, argued about production, and now some our material is totally different from where they started. This is our writing process; this is the evolution of our music, and we embrace it.

Vatic came to be about 5 years ago in West Chester PA. Made up of 4 guys who have been doing it for 10+ years. Our influences are all over the board. Mike and Andy are childhood friends, you can’t ask for a better guitar player/drummer combo than that. Eric hooked up playing bass with the two many years ago and has explored lots of musical avenues with Mike and Andy. They click like a machine. The other Erik, (aka me) is the outsider. Played in band in Ohio, played with a reasonably successful band in Phoenix and has now fatefully settled in with three strangers and now great friends as the singer for Vatic, just over a year ago.

So here we are. Four guys with more experience than you can shake a stick at. We write about what we know and what we feel. We fit into a few different categories but underlying it all is Metal. We don’t pretend to be something we are not. We are not writing to shock the world with a new sound, but are not on the coattails of the Nu-Metal revolution, and here is the dilemma. How does any band write music, find there own sound ignore their influences, find fans and sell enough records so they can do it for a living? I can tell you from personal experience, it’s nearly impossible to do it all. There is no original band that does not draw off experience and influence. You are lying to yourselves if you think you do. We make sacrifices for the greater good, for the opportunity to take our sound and words to the people. And when we get together, this is the sound we make. Sometimes we compromise, sometimes we alienate. Take it or leave it. There is something for everybody.

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