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Venrez
12+ albums
hard rockrockUSA
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Band Members: Venrez - Lead Vocals Jason Womack - Guitar, backing vocals Alex Kane - Guitar Mike Bradford - Bass Ed Davis - Drums The way that Los Angeles-based hard rockers Venrez got their name is a pretty straight-ahead tale - it's the last syllables of the first and last name of the group's singer, Steven Berez. But how they met was anything but ordinary. "The band formed while helping me with some work on my house," explains Berez. "Several of the guys working, including Jason Womack, were musicians and the building sessions quickly turned to jams, then the formation of the band." Fans of modern day rock music should be familiar with the musicians who back Berez in Venrez - both guitarist Womack and drummer Ed Davis played with Juliette Lewis and the Licks, while guitarist Alex Kane is a former member of both Life Sex and Death (LSD) and Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg. Bassist Michael Bradford (a childhood friend of Womack's) rounds out the group. As evidenced by the group's debut full-length, 'Sell the Lie,' it didn't take long for the group's chemistry to kick into gear, as the album's sound/approach brings to mind the classic rock of the 1970's and the grunge movement of the 1990's both genres that stressed the importance of keeping studio recordings live-sounding and not over-produced. "My deep vocal has some comparisons to Audioslave," says Berez, "And the two part harmonies with me and Jason to Alice in Chains. But I get some comments of slight compa
