Our featured musician this week is Hunting Giants frontman,  Stephen Atkey.  Steven's vocal is fantastic, energetic and very expressie.  He can be aggressive, dramatic and has a great ability to capture the emotion of the songs.  This guy is a born entertainer that leaves everything on the stage, a consummate performer.  Stephen and Hunting Giants are tight, talented and exceptional musicians.

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https://huntinggiants.com/

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From The Beginning

Stephen had recently quit his job in Edmonton, said farewell to his friends and family, and moved to the west coast, following a personal dream that he would find a promising musical partnership there.

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The email that Stephen sent included a tough-to-find live recording of one of their songs, which he had used to assemble a layered vocal line using ProTools that immediately got the band’s attention. The quality of work done and artistry displayed was more than enough to hastily arrange a meeting, which went very well, and they decided to meet up for the next rehearsal.

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After the first jam it was clear that the four musicians had a unique chemistry and with that, the group took their first lumbering steps towards significance by making official the roster of the new four-piece band.

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By that time, the guitar and bass lines were fully recorded and the team was ready to lay down the vocal tracks, despite Stephen having only been involved in the project a brief time. Despite this, Stephen was able to quickly craft and record vocals that supported and enhanced the existing music beautifully.

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Two months from that meeting, the group had finished and mastered the album to be known as Skyward Eyes, and were ready to grow the group further, but were unable to without first discovering a name that would fit the grandiosity of the music and the aggressive drive they all had toward the project. After some time, the group finally emerged as Hunting Giants.