The Return of AVOW
Band with new lineup performs at Green Eggs and Jam on Friday

By Jeff Eason

One of the High Country’s longest running metal bands is back, only this time it’s going for a distinctly more electronic sound. Another Victim on War (AVOW) has two new members and will perform its first Hight Country show in more than a year this weekend.

The revamped AVOW will perform on Friday, December 12 at Green Eggs and Jam in downtown Boone. The show starts at 9 p.m. with opening act Nightmare Sonata from Greensboro. Admission is $5 per person.

The new lineup for AVOW includes longtime members Chris Harris on vocals and drum machine, and Kenneth Dancy on guitar plus new members Chris Pope on bass and Jai Church on rhythm guitar and electronics.

“This is going to be our ‘Farewell to W. show’,” said Harris. “It’s going to be a multi-media show with music, lights, fog machine and a video backdrop. It’s going to be a cool way to reintroduce ourselves to people.”

Since last performing live in the High Country, AVOW has spent time recording new songs and offering them to their fans free of charge through the band’s website at www.anothervictimofwar.com.

“We’ve gotten a lot more industrial sounding with the drum machine,” said Harris. “It’s a new BOSS DR-880 that can do just about anything we want it to.”

Although he is one of the newest members of the band, bassist Chris Pope has been playing and writing music with guitarist Dancy for the past decade. Some of the songs that are newest in AVOW’s repertoire were written by Pope and Dancy before AVOW was formed in 2002.

Opening act Nightmare Sonata is post punk death rock performance art band featuring Benjamin Samedi on guitars, keyboards and vocals, Chris Spectre on bass and Undead Fred on drums.
For more information on Friday’s show, call Green Eggs and Jam at (828) 264-3233.