BLOODWAY was born in July 2013, from the ideas of 3 musicians, Costin Chioreanu (guitar, vocals), Alex Ghita (drums) and Mihai Andrei (bass). The three ,merged their past musical experiences, challenging themselves to reach new borders of creativity, in order to shape a special band with an extremely coherent speech. The name BLOODWAY comes from the idea of experiences and paths that somebody can achieve and discover during a lifetime.
The reason why the band kept everything secret - from it's own existence to any updates concerning creative progress - until this very moment it is simply the band member's desire of presenting just the results of their creativity, completely ignoring the nowadays social aspects of having a band. "We were totally focused on developing what we wanted to build together, so we just locked ourselves in the cell and kept everything away from the world outside. Our main goal was first to find our own path and to record a debut material as concentrated as possible. We simply left outside the door any possible influence from the people around us," Costin Chioreanu explains. "Even our closest friends had zero information on our existence as a band, until today... but our purpose demanded that precisely."
In September 2013 BLOODWAY recorded a live demo and sent it only to one label worldwide, I, Voidhanger Records from Italy, label that signed the band on the spot.
"I worked with them in the past on some graphic projects," Costin says, "I saw how much passion they put on their releases, and I knew that was the right choice. This is the most important thing concerning this band: everything we do and every person we work with ,must be 100% into our world, otherwise it means that something is wrong and must be cut down immediately. The way to reach purity of expression, is a very painful road, concerning mostly human relationships."
Together with producer Marius Costache, in November 2013 BLOODWAY entered Next Dog Studio (Bucharest) and gave birth to their debut recording "Sunstone Voyager and the Clandestine Horizon" which will be released at the beginning of 2014 by I, Voidhanger Records.
The EP tracklist:
1. I Am A Drop Of Water In An Ocean Of Stars (intro)
2. The Skeleton Key
3. Free Ends
4. Eye Service Collapse
5. Sunstone Voyager And The Clandestine Horizon
listen the very first song published publicly here:
https://soundcloud.com/i-voidhanger-records/bloodway-the-skeleton-key
About the first song released, Costin says: "This is the first track we ever composed as a band, is the opening track of our debut release, so we decided to start with the very beginning. Ideologically speaking, "The Skeleton Key" is the key capable of opening any lock regardless of make or type. Its skeletal structure can bypass all locks. So, it's a kind of invitation to go deeper and deeper inside yourself, until you find the essence. As closer to the essence you get, as pure the result is. And only that purity can act as the skeleton key" .
About studio time and recording BLOODWAY's "Sunstone Voyager And The Clandestine Horizon", producer Marius Costache says: "I have worked with Costin on numerous musical projects, but I think BLOODWAY is the project that manages to comprise everything he's done before in a single unified vision and sound. Production side, there was no intention in sounding like a certain something, but neither one of being like no other before. The sound just served the music behind it. The band came really prepared to the studio knowing what they wanted, but we also experimented a bit for some creepy parts and due to similar tastes for some particular esthetics, the whole thing came together quite quickly."
"We grown up as a band in our private cellar, playing all together and using a very basic setup. Once in the studio, we recorded the drums without any clicktracks, in order to keep the feeling of our music alive and even to develop it. After that we recorded the rest of instruments over these wild drums. It was crazy, but it was the only way we could reach this level of musical expression," Costin Chioreanu adds. Concerning the sound and production: "I knew Marius can do exactly what we need. Seems like he just read our minds."
Together with the first BLOODWAY song, the band reveals the front cover of "Sunstone Voyager And The Clandestine Horizon". The visual story kept inside the CD booklet will be the core of the next art exhibition of Costin Chioreanu, entitled "Cladnestine Horizons". The exhibition will have the vernissage on March 7th 2014, in Italy, Milano, at Santeria (Via Ettore Paladini 8) . More information here: