"All the bands are really, really great," Val said. "It's a very great vibe. We're hitting some new areas, so basically we're simply trying to show what we can do and expose people to what our voice is about. We're a little different than Ill Nino and the other bands on the tour. But it's all metal. It's very good. People have been really, really positive about it.
All the members of Fashion Bomb - who go by the monikers acid, Trace, Drone I and Drone II - have different influences that wind their way in and out of the medicine that is ground on their sophomore effort, "Visions of the Lifted Veil," which hit stores in December 2009. But Val called the act's sound "definitely metal."
"You can see some of the influences from the people we've admired like Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot and bands like that," Val said. "We get it to a little different place. We put our own spin on it, actually. We're all about originality. With our live show, we do everything live that you see on the album. We try to continue as dependable to work as we can. We don't overproduce our stuff where what you see on the CD is a lot of effects and madness and experience it's all different. We actually try to stay truthful to our songs."
"Visions of the Lifted Veil" was recorded in Los Angeles with executive producer Ray Herrera (Fear Factory, Arkaea) and engineer Jeremy Blair who has worked with Cypress Hill, Fear Factory and Guns N' Roses.
"We had a very just time recording it," Val said. "It was but basically taking the songs we had started self producing and delivery them out to California and putting some polish on it. We had Tom Baker, who did Manson, Zombie and Nails, master it. It was a really, really cool experience.
"Being able to go with those people really upped our game. We're very proud to be capable to hear from veterans that take all that live and knowledge and be capable to integrate it into our game."
The "plot" includes a lot of new songs that have been written for a third album that Fashion Bomb intends to show later this year.
"That's not for a few months," Val said. "We yet possess a short bit of time to push the new book that we have.
"But we've been playing one of the new songs live as a preview. People are really, really responding positively to the new song. They genuinely wish it. Metal audiences these years are really open to new medicine and discovering new music. It's great when you've got a lot like Ill Nino where people live their music and they can very jam to it and they're really familiar with it. It's a good night when you can also find something new."
Val said it's not unusual for Fashion Bomb to use its performances "as a laboratory."
"We meet the stuff people know," Val said. "But we'll have in a call or two here and thither as a little 'Hey, what do you guys think of this?' Because we're not simply writing music for ourselves. It's a two-way experience. If fans like it, too, that's the ultimate goal. Sometimes if you're too near to a song it helps to take an international perspective to aid you see the forest through the trees."
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