Artist:Byron Short

‘Do you know who you really are? Are you sure it’s really you?’ - Josh Homme There comes a time in every one’s life when they must decide who they really are. Sometimes fate is cruel. It takes the decision out of the hands of the individual and forces the verdict upon them. Man or animal? Obedient, out of control? Open or shut off? Loving or hateful? Alive or dead? Remember, he not busy being born is busy dying. Of course, it’s not always cut and dry. Like Whitman, we all contain multitudes. So how does the decision eventuate? Like a glorious bolt from the blue? Some kind of Eureka! moment? Or a long and gradual acceptance of one’s true soul? A fatalistic death dance – a hurtling asteroid traveling at the speed of sound yet appearing to be slow moving and distant. Inevitable all the same. With ‘Wounded Beast’, I haven’t quite decided (or accepted) who I am, but I have provided an insight into the process of self discovery and through ten varied and ambitious musical offerings, I ...