Pronghorn Los Angeles Perspective on Empty Vault
Pronghorn exists in Los Angeles. We are ambassadors to another dimension. Infinite universes exist. Pronghorn exists in very few of them. You are lucky to be born in this dimension.
Living in a combat zone changed me. The music is dark and comes from a place of deep experience. Each song tells a unique story, but all of the stories are shaped by war. And the debauchery of Hollywood where the band currently creates. Grime, grit and excess.
My mom playing Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean in the car while she drove me to preschool. The melody and urgency of the vocals made it feel like the man was yelling at me personally. I still get a great sense of unease whenever I hear that song.
My third year in the U.S. Marine Corps, right after I got promoted to 1st Lt. I started a secret band while I was still on active duty in order to buttress the constant flow of government propaganda coming at me like a fire hose. I decided then not to be a tool of The Man. Music sets us free.
Pronghorn music is psychedelic desert rock. Gothic grunge funk for only a select group of cool people to enjoy.
The addition of Doug Evans on bass has elevated the band to a new level of performance. And the unique guitar stylings of Nima have evolved into a cerebral tapestry that paints a picture in your mind. I also play a tambourine now and Devin occasionally throws in an egg shaker. Things have gotten very advanced.
Sex, power, war, grime, grit, and otherworldly experiences drive the central themes of our music. Empty Vault is a tale of 1800's robber barons running out of drugs and being forced to wage aerial combat in hydrogen-filled dirigible air ships in order to regain control of the opium Silk Road in the sky during the Industrial Revolution.
We plan to organize a three-way tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys once "Empty Vault" blows up internationally. I'm going to drive a wedge in the bromance between Josh Homme and Alex Turner.
QOTSA music is like having sex with a supermodel while you have an extreme hangover. Loud fuzzy brain fog punctuated by angelic falsetto poetry. Arctic Monkeys music is like sitting in a smoke filled lounge, also packed with supermodels, but the lounge is inside a French palace located on the Moon.
Pronghorn music sounds like a James Bond opening credits scene if it was filmed by Quentin Tarantino. The songs take you back in time to a period of wealth, excess and boundless opportunity. And forward to a dimension of chaos, wrath and new understanding.
