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CD/DVD Releases: Prog-Metal Band Jaw To Release In The U.S.A.

Posted on Sunday, February 15 @ 23:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Canadian Prog-Metal band Jaw is releasing their sophomore album Swings Humans on Reversed Records on March 24th, 2009. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation and a message of personal evolution, is clearly in evidence on an absolutely meticulously crafted eight-song affair.

Jaw is power, an unrestrained force possessing an unorthodox songwriting style. Fearlessly they innovate as they push for change. Jaw is an inherent talent, a creative David in world of conformist Goliaths.

Jaw formed in 2001 when vocalist Emmanuel Olarewaju and guitarist Jason Dokken met through serendipity at a music store in their hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After months of searching for individuals who shared in their creative vision, Olarewaju and Dokken recruited bassist Pablo Riedel and drummer Kevin Kornelsen. On July 17th 2001, Jaw began. Within a few months of forming, the quartet had written a solid set of songs. These songs only scratched the surface of Jaw's potential.



Jaw recorded their first EP in November 2002. With EP in hand Jaw began tirelessly touring the frigid western Canadian plains through to the eastern coast, while periodically dipping into Minnesota and North Dakota. Jaw's live performance impressed to such an extent that within a year the group had sold enough albums to garner a strong following nationwide.

Jaw entered The Space Behind A Garage Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba with producer/engineer Rob Shallcross (Strapping Young Lad, Gwar, Townsend Band, Darkest Hour, Threat Signal) to record Swings Humans. The result of this collaboration is of brutality and peace conveyed through movements, from the grandeur of its mountain tops to the voids of its valleys. Soulful, poetic, graceful and mighty, Jaw's Swings Humans reinvents what metal is and can be.

Jaw is:

Emmanuel Olarewaju: Vocals
Jason Dokken: Guitar
Pablo Riedel: Bass
Kevin Kornelsen: Drums

For more information go to www.myspace.com/jawband or www.reversedrecords.com.

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