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James Elwood (Born 18th January 1999) is the lead guitarist, musical composer and co founder of Industrial Rock band Frozen Veins aswell as being co founder of GriSHAM since the official disbandment of Frozen veins and the final release of GriSHAM games has worked as an artist and animator, notably for the show, "Mr Simmons lost puppets."

Early Life
James was born in Birmingham too parents Michael and Elizabeth Elwood. James lived a very Conservative upbringing and his family attended Church every Sunday. James has identified as agnostic since age 12 and has often had a passion for writing music and creating Art with a religious theme. James came out to his family at 16 and as a result moved in with his Aunt Isabel until moving to Lincoln University at age 18. Despite keeping in contact with his mum James hasn't spoken to his Dad or elder brother Liam since coming out. when asked about his family James said

"I'll always love my Mum because shes my mum, I will always be closest to my Aunt though as shes the only one who was there for me when I needed help the most."

James attended Lincoln University for 1 year and studied Journalism with fellow band mate and flatmate Tara Ferreday.

Frozen Veins
James is most well known for being lead guitar and composer for the band Frozen Veins who received a large deal of commercial success during the 2020s. James is known to have composed and written the guitar and basic rhythm to all of Frozen Veins original songs with some being adapted by band mates. With Frozen Veins James achieved a variety of awards including several domestic number 1 singles an albums. when interviewed in 2023 following the release of circus single candy floss James stated.

"Candy Floss in my eyes was about looking deeper and conquering your own want, in the sense that it can be enjoyed once in a while but if you have too much it can be bad for you. In that sense it was something that me and particularly Tara (Tara Cassel) who wrote the song thought was an important message to deliver. plus it's hell catchy"

On the 25th May 2029 the band played there final show at The Lincoln Student union where they played there first show as a band, the show was limited to family, friends and the bands longtime fans with the entire show and behind the scenes footage being shown on channel 4 and on Netflix. The bands announced there breakup live on stage following a 2 hour set and ended the speech with a performance of there first single "Burn me up" which they hadn't preformed since the release of there first full album. The announcement of the bands breakup cause public meltdown with #comebackfv trending for seven weeks.

GriSHAM
GriSHAM was the second group to include James and Tara after Frozen Veins and consisted of two albums (GriSHAM and GriSHAM IV) which were completely produced by Tara and himself. the band has never been on tour with the duo stating that its all about the music rather than the people who made it. despite being extremely contemporary and unlike their style from Frozen Veins both GriSHAM albums received moderate success in the charts however there has been no word from the group since with general assumption being that they had disbanded.

Other Projects in music
As well as being in both Frozen Veins and GriSHAM. James has been involved in various other musical projects. Whilst most of his work has been in production he has directed and designed three animated music videos for the band Testify to me and there album WE r ART.

Art
whilst not considered a full time artist James has held numerous art shows in London, Chicago, new York and LA. some of his most famous Art exhibits include: If gods real explain mars and The art behind Frozen Veins. in which rare examples of artwork from the bands various albums were put on display in London for a month long exhibit in the Tate modern. James also designed the artwork for Frozen Veins EP self diagnosed psycho with other students at Lincoln University.

Marriage and Children
James Elwood Married Luke Stone on the 14th July 2026. Since marrying the couple have adopted two children, Aladdin Elwood- Stone and Milo Elwood Stone.

The Freedom Protest
One of the most famous cases of a musician/s becoming overly involved with politics includes The controversial Freedom Protest ( which landed all of the Frozen Veins band members imprisoned for the now famous 3 week stay, Now a song From the album The devils in the eye (part 3 of a religious special) all five members were arrested following a protest lead towards the houses of parliament following former prime minister, Joseph hartferds, statement "If we have anyone or anything to blame for teen sex and homosexuality then it's music from bands such as Frozen Veins, The ambitious and Those similar" The statement is so famous because of the way it implied a negative face on the rock community and left many teenagers angry at the dealings of the government, parents angry at the bands and many Liberal politicians angry at the Conservative prime minister.

In response to the prime ministers statement and refusal to apologize following continued offensive behavior the band filmed themselves playing their new single think again, also from the aforementioned album, whilst leading a peaceful march requesting the prime minister's dismissal or an apology statement. The group aswell as several other influential figures who attended the march were arrested for Violent behavior, however following reports of the prime minister's illegitimate entitlement to being PM and the proof of the aforementioned party's involvement in changing the votes to many liberal areas all charges were dropped on any members involved in he protest and the prime minister along with eight over politicians was forced to resigned and were sentenced to 45 years for fraud on a global scale.