New Look. New Drummer. New Album?

Gloom and doom, mood rockers Kill The Reflection recently made an appearance on KSBI-TV to promote their participation in the 2013 Norman Music Festival. For those of us that are unable to see the band perform live, this gave us our first glimpse at new member Starr Raven on drums.

Kill The Reflection is the vision quest of front man Morgan Routt. In 2010 he released their debut album Fleeting Melodies, Vol.1. Following in the foot steps of such great one man bands as Nine Inch Nails, Routt recorded the album himself, playing all the instruments. Although the album has a clear home recording quality about it, this does not detract from it’s beauty. Routt released the album and promoted it via the usual social network hubs. Fleeting Melodies was well received and Kill The Reflection was solidified as a band to watch.

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2011 the band became a band when Chris Stevens joined on drums and Mark Martinez on bass. As a three piece the band’s sound changed. Where the first album was heavily synth influenced, the new band had no synth player. The songs didn’t change, but now they were a guitar driven rendition of what they had previously been. The same year KTR released their sophomore effort Togetther…Apart… The second album didn’t gross the same kudos from critics as the debut had, but the fans took to it immediately.

2013, Kill The Reflection is tentatively scheduled to go into the studio this summer to begin recording their next album which will be released on the label Lackpro Records.  In the two years since their last album, the band has evolved.  They have been playing nonstop, opening for such acts as Mr. Gnome, and Neon Trees.  Undergoing a changing of the guard, Stevens left and Raven joined.  They have gone from a single songwriter to a group effort, and with that they have opened a door of boundless possibilities. This band has put in the effort and never failed to please. It is safe to assume that they will continue as they have in the past, making it impossible to anticipate what is next. I personally am looking forward to the results of their endeavor.

Occupying Time While Losing Your Mind

You ever stay awake for 36 hours straight playing video games, then go outside amongst the living, and have trouble differentiating between the virtual reality in which you just lived for a day and a half, and the physical world around your? Yeah, me too. Sleep depravation is amazing, and will do some messed up things to your mind. When you hear about meth-heads (speed freaks) doing crazy stuff, it’s not exactly because of the drugs. It’s because of the lack of sleep. Speed will make them jittery, and make them stay up for days, but after staying up for days, it’s the sleep depravation that makes them start seeing things. It makes them do awesome things like take their TV apart and wash the inside of it with a garden hose, because after day three of being awake, they realized “it must be filthy in there because I never clean it.” I have never done speed and do not recommend it, but many of times I have stayed awake for a day or two.

If you want a cheap vacation, take a week off from work and stay up for a couple of days playing Skyrim, the Dungeons and Dragons style video game. Get into it, enjoy it, and then grab the new CD by the band Cello Fury and walk around in public with it playing in your headphones. It will be the soundtrack to your own, action, adventure, game that is life. I did this and it was trippie. I began to taste colors. The only problem was, sense I am colorblind, they all tasted the same.

Cello Fury is a band from Pittsburgh that consists of three cellists, and a drummer. They do instrumental music in the vein of Heavy Metal similar to the band Break of Reality. They have played large arenas to sixty thousand fans, and they have played small rock clubs. Diverse and quick to adjust, they are the palm tree that bends with the wind. Now on the heels of their critically acclaimed debut album, Cello Fury is set to release their follow up effort Symphony of Shadows.

With fifteen tracks and a total play time that is almost exactly an hour long, Symphony of Shadows is an emotionally powerful CD. Even if string arrangements are not normally your thing, I recommend that you give these guys a chance. Their high-energy performance, and rock oriented writing style will surprise you.

Electronic and acoustic music is currently "hot" to the point that I could stand to go a long time without hearing either one. Technically Cello Fury is an acoustic band, but in no way can they be compared to the mind numbing, tedious folksy trend that has been going on for too long. It does my antagonist heart good to see somebody moving in a different direction, and going against the grain. This music gets the blood pumping. Listening to it makes me want to go out and punch a bear, or slay a dragon. If you are feeling brave, you can find more information on the band at their web page:

www.cellofury.com

or their facebook: www.facebook.com/cellofury