Mary's Sacrificial Lamb

Mary's Sacrificial Lamb

Mary's Sacrificial Lamb is an Jemo(jesus emo) band out of Jamestown North Dakota.

Current Band Members

Sam Ova(vocals)

Cameron Leben(guitar)

Background

The band was formed in early 2006 when at a concert Sam Ova, Ariana Barnick, Hannah Steinmetz, and Dan Sorenson had a discussion about making an emo band that was also influenced by Jesus. Thus their own style of music "Jemo" was created. Ariana and Dan although later decided that they didn't want to go through with it. So Sam was looking for a member who had alot of skill and talent and that is when he contacted Cameron Leben, the guitarist/vocalist for Boss and Onions, who gladly took up the offer. So within the next week Sam, Cameron, and Hannah threw together a 10 track cd called "Velvet Sludge." They sold the cd to a few people and formed a sort of cult status. So they decided they needed to follow it up with something bigger so for the next month or so(no one quite knows how long)the band recorded tracks here and there until finally they had accomplished their goal. The product of their work(they only do one try of every song and it's mostly improv)was "This Is Me Dying For The People, which ended up being a huge hit because it had a nice blend of very loud angry music with touching acoustic ones and songs that were so offbeat and strange they were likable. So the band went back into the studio, by now Hannah had slowly faded out of the band and was rarely included on any songs, and they recorded "Deathodills". Deathodills was a mess some would say, almost hard to sit through besides two tracks "There Are No Pheasants In Heaven" and "IT". So the band felt they had let their fans down and it was a feeling they didn't want so they just stopped recording almost completely. They've only released one single since then "Still Dying" which is a good track but nothing like what they had before. There have been rumors that the band may be breaking up soon, but according Sam those rumors are not true. He also says they promise to release just one more song before they're done. But right now one knows if there has been any progress on a new album or not.

Discography

Velvet Sludge(2006)

This Is Me Dying For The People(2006)

Deathodills(2006)

Website

[1] www.myspace.com/velvetsludge