DAMN CROWS EXHALE Shane Greenhall

come up with a riff, I’ll come up with ideas and lyric ideas, and then it gets put in the Crow Cauldron. So, it does sound like an evolution, absolutely. And working with a different producer is always going to do that because that’s another member of the band at that period of time. So, he [Dan Weller] helped loads there,” explains Greenhall. “For me, personally, as a creative person, I love my rock music. I love getting in the room and just jamming with the boys. But I do love the creative side of where’s this going to go. And you don’t really know until you do it. And then it falls out of the sky, and it’s almost magical. And you’re looking around going, how did this happen? How do we get here?”

The recording process for the band’s latest offering was to Shane’s liking. “It was incredible. It was so very enjoyable. I think it’s probably one of my most enjoyable as a vocalist. I had fun in the vocal booth because we experimented a lot,” he says.

Moving forward there is lots on the TDC agenda for the rest of 2023 and beyond. “It’s very similar to when we split up with COVID, to be honest. There was all this stuff that was pencilled in the diary. Very exciting stuff across the ocean, so I’m just hoping that happens because I’ve been here before where the diary is pencilled in, and everyone’s like, Oh, my god, that’s amazing. So, it really depends. I know there’s a couple of things happening,” declares Shane. “We are looking to go to the States. We are looking to go to Europe. So that’s really exciting. And Canada, as well, apparently. So yeah, we are super excited and can’t wait as those are new territories for us,” said Greenhall. “The next tour, we’ve got a tour bus, and we’ve done that a couple of times, and it’s amazing. But if we’re going to go over there, we’re back in a van, and we start again. But it is what it is. That’s the nature of the beast. We’ve got to do what we got to do. And we have that mindset. So even though we’re doing okay, as far as our standards are concerned in the UK, the world is a big place.”

Inhale/Exhale, the new album from Those Damn Crows, is out now via Earache Records.

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