Music Nation is a Music Video Competition for Independent Artists

We push the boundary of what you think sounds right, but not so far as to turn you away. Listen. Come closer. You will understand and wonder how you didn't prior. Perception is yours and relevant to the perceiver. We aim to derail your thought train and change you're destination forever. Even if for a moment. You're moment. Not ours. We choose ours, you choose yours. It's a balancing act we all play carnival with.

In Los Angeles:

Sheldon James - Vocals/Live Guitar/Studio Production/Studio Instrumentation
Sadie Explosion - Turntable/Vocals

In Aberdeen:

Brianna Tension - Bassguitar/Vocals

I, Sheldon James, started this project in an attempt to separate music I was making for others into music I was making for myself. October was a rough month, wings of it fluttered with addiction and escapism and floated towards the light of futility and suicide. Song after song, damning myself and my inability to understand how I could exist at the same time as my contradicting thoughts, poured from me, coating the hallway and flooding my life.
I chose to breath in that life. Education again. College. Doctors. Bipolarity. Lithium. A video camera in hopes of passing a leadership class. I recruited the closest friends that I had.
"Learn to play the bass guitar, Sadie." I begged.
"Make me! Actually I want to learn, so ok." Sadie threw at me defiantly yet accepting.
To my sister, I implored, "Play the synth, Bri?"
"Love?" she quickly retorted

That turned into a few hundred impromptu video recordings, which resulted in "thief" which was entered in this contest february 9th. After rallying the entire town and much of the surrounding county, the video did well, so well that the judges commented and gave it a c- overall. Our fans and us tore them apart. Fans are a force of nature. Then multiple bottles of cough syrup and a video camera attempt later, "charismatic suicide" was entered. It won the week after its entry with an astounding 4239 stars. The lowest of the contest to win.
Since then, Killings In Fashion has learned to play their instruments, thrown a few garage shows and basically fought through a haze of drugs and ridiculous "please remember me when you're famous" lines from close friends and emerged as a real band, ready to attempt to accomplish what we have been warned we can not achieve. When someone says "you can't do that." We will ask why.



sounds of the world rushing by me as I stand in one spot unable to filter out a single noise being crushed by the fall of a leaf driven mad by a scrap of paper rustling across the room unable to continue beyond the simplicity of music and the depth of myself which is a hole I dig for myself only to be buried in loathing and lack of trust for no one ever again without proof that everyone dies only once and never is truly alone beside themselves in the mirror is the image that haunts them wondering which world I am in currently and how well I can manage if I am in the wrong let's all wish we were models as they are perfect and we should tailor ourselves to fit gods image which is why they are called models

Musical Styles

• Rock
• Electronic
• Industrial
• Progressive
• Trip Hop
• Downtempo
• Industrial Emo Alternative
• Experiemental/Gothic/Alternative
• Progressive And Experimental Rock
• Trip Hop / Down-Tempo / Gothic / Em

Influences