Vanadium

Vanadium is a transition metal band which incorporates all the important aspects of metal including finger bleeding guitar riffs, pounding drum solos and screeching vocals but also imperative parts of chemistry. Transition metal was invented by Vanadium and is the way forward in more intense, extreme metal.The origins of Vanadium go back to when Ben Scott and good friend John O’Brien were hanging out together and were playing about with guitar riffs. Ben posed the question to John ‘Do you wanna start a band?’ John replies ‘Hell, yes!’ and the band was born. They agreed Ben should be lead vocals and rhythm guitar while John, with his slick guitar skills, should be lead guitar. The name, Vanadium (the chemical element), came about when Ben and John were studying in chemistry about the transition metals and 3d and 4s sub-shell levels and John thought that Vanadium would sound good as a name for a metal band. And so the name stuck until this very day.After news that a new, original metal band was being formed, Ben White, Matthew Wood and David Lyons soon joined hoping to be part of this remarkable creation. Each of these new members brought their own thoughts, ideas and instrumental intuitiveness to the band. Ben took up Keyboards/ Samples, Matt on Bass and David with his rhythm on Drums. Everything was great, they seemed to be a complete band but it lacked a certain ‘something’. Something to make them whole. They decided that this something was a trianglist. For months the band searched for the right trianglist player, holding auditions every day. It looked as though there was no hope in finding the last part of the jigsaw puzzle. But then it happened. On the last hour, of the last audition a man stepped up to the challenge. With triangle in hand and head high, he played the triangle with a shrill sound and steady beat. They knew he was right. The man willing to step over all boundaries and rise to the challenge was Jeran Winter, our newest member.Vanadium has done countless concerts in the years they have been together and they are planning a World Tour in 2006. Vanadium’s fans are in the millions and it is the leading front in modern metal.