RCRDList Nov. 24 – Karma Machine by Kill Ritual (@KILLRITUAL) – http://eepurl.com/bGYUXb
Kill Ritual! Yes!
Updated Social Media Sites
We’ve spent the last couple of days updating our social media sites. If you are on any of these sites please add us. We’d appreciate the support.
There are some big things coming down the pipe for 2016. Starting it out we will be opening for Graham Bonnett while we are at NAMM. Click here for the Facebook Invite. If you are in the Anaheim area please stop by to give us a listen. We’ve got a tour shaping up as well. We’ll be finalizing everything before the end of the year and hope to make it to your town. Send us a note on your favorite social media site or just email us. Tell us you want us to come to your town.
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Paris
We deeply sympathize with the advents in Paris yesterday. As touring musicians we can’t even imagine how the members of the Eagles of Death Metal feel at this moment and our hearts go out to them, their crew and their families. Collectively we feel this was another cowardly act on innocent civilians and terrorism will always lose in the end.
We don’t know when our time will end on this planet so love those around you and spread as much peace and joy that you can muster during this time of sorrow.
Peace,
David, Steven, Bobby and Kore
Poppies and Patriotism
A few days ago I got back from England where Taylor, her mother and I went on ‘Holiday’, as they say over there. This past weekend was the start of their Remembrance Day which is on the 11th day of the 11th month every year for all of their veterans throughout the years. We saw people wearing poppies everywhere we looked. There was even a ceremony at the Tower of London where they laid 888,246 hand-made poppies. It was impossible to NOT be a part of this. Taylor and I were even wearing them. You almost felt out of place if you weren’t wearing them. I felt proud to be a veteran over there. Coming back to the US I have felt bittersweet.
Why bittersweet?
Because I wish I felt the same way here in the US as I did over there. I’ve never had a day off of work for Veterans Day, nor the Marine Corp Birthday. I have barely gotten any recognition for my service. Like every service member that I personally know, we loved every bit of our service, and still to this day I am a very proud Marine. We thought we were doing something special. We thought we were making a difference in the world. I might have long hair, earrings and guy liner, play guitar and sing in a Rock band, but every aspect of who I am, of my time in service and out, comes through in my lyrics. I am a firm believer that you can’t speak of anything unless you’ve walked in another’s shoes. Walk the Walk, as they say. I think I’ve walked enough wearing different shoes throughout my short time on this planet to say this… not too many people here give a #%@. By no means am I saying that nobody gives a#%@, but a good amount of our country lives in a different reality of consumerism. An unconscious consumerism without any regard to consequences. Living in their own little reality while our Government keeps them and then highjacks it from under their noses.They have been highjacked through the Patriot Act, TSA, our uselessly corrupt politicians and the media. They keep you pre-occupied on Facebook, Television, Walmart, etc., to where your mind is so filled with what you can get right now that you’ve lost perspective on the future. Today, in America, Veterans Day is another Facebook event that everybody will forget about until next year. I’ll be the first to say that we Veterans aren’t asking for handouts. We’re not asking to be treated more special than anybody else. But for one day we would like everybody in our country to truly understand what it means to be a Veteran. It means sacrifice. The only sacrifice I see today is our rights as citizens.
America is losing it. The country I served was already on a downward spiral and got worse from the first Gulf War. I thought my time in service would be making a difference, upholding the constitution that so many before me died for because they believed it to be the best idea yet. I too felt that. But coming back to America, getting off a plane and being shuttled like cattle through TSA, with them looking ever more suspicious at all of us really made me question what it was all about? Where did we go wrong? How is it with all of the information in our databases they could not see in my passport that I am a Marine? I’m not asking for special privileges. I’m not asking to get shuttled to the front of the line. Just a ‘Thank You’ for my service instead of the evil eye seeing if I was a terrorist. I watched a young girl jump in front of line in front of an old Veteran in a wheelchair with no acknowledgement at all, as if he didn’t exist.
I’m not saying Europe is better, and to be honest I don’t know the politics in each of their countries, but the feeling… the feeling is different. It was a feeling that I haven’t felt since I was a child. I didn’t feel like a prisoner. I didn’t feel like I was going to lose everything if I didn’t make enough money. I could talk to random people on the street or in a bar without feeling a threat. People were ‘living’ over there. Really living. We saw shops where they closed at 2:30pm and would reopen at 4:30pm for their own downtime, their lunchtime. Shops didn’t open until noon on Sunday. That’s where I say that America is losing it.
Today… the only thing I ask of each of you is this… What have you sacrificed and what are you willing to do today to change the world for tomorrow?
Peace,
David
NAMM and Graham Bonnet
Kill Ritual will be performing 1/22/16 during the NAMM show at Malone’s in Santa Ana with the legendary x-Rainbow/MSG/Alcatrazz singer Graham Bonnet. Presented by House Of Metal! We’ll have special T-shirt/CD/Ticket packages available. Contact us for details. More US tour dates soon!
New Kill Ritual Review with ZRockR Magazine
Living here in Las Vegas, a place that I never thought I would find myself in, has been amazing. Who would of thought that this desert town would have so much more for me than gambling and all of the other seedy things its known for. Sin City. Well.. its been a blessing for me. I’ve met some of the best musicians out here, got to play with several of them and better yet… I hang out with a number of them. Some of them I would only dream of meeting are now considered my friends.
I don’t mention much about Electric Messiah. It was my first band out here in Vegas. We got to open up for some major acts… the most notorious of them all being Accept. Now, with Kill Ritual I wish I could go back in time and open for Accept with Kill Ritual. Guaranteed Wolf Hoffmann and the boys would have turned their heads and given us a listen. (Please don’t think I’m putting down my time with Electric Messiah… not at all. It was a great band that came and went far too quickly.)
Kill Ritual and I got to do our first show at my favorite club here in Vegas. Vamp’d. The club that I got to open for Accept at. The club owned by my friend Danny Koker and his lovely wife Korie Koker and Korie’s lovely assistant Alli who booked us for this show. We had a very warm reception considering that nobody knew anything about my new band nor what we sounded like. Maybe it was the curiousity at first that got the crowd to come in… whatever the reason, I’m grateful for it.
Taylor Carlson, a writer at ZRockR Magazine summed up the show by saying this; “All in all this was a fantastic introduction to a great heavy metal band that is taking the best of the old and the new alike, and bringing it all together to create something that rocks like nothing and no one else. Definitely check out Kill Ritual’s latest CD, Karma Machine, and be sure to catch them in concert first chance you get!”
Read the whole review here.
Peace,
David
Count your Blessings
When I started studying the Law of Attraction one of the first things I learned was to look at everything in my life as a blessing. This was back in early 2000’s. I had to totally reconfigure my brain. Seriously. I mean, I’ve always been a positive guy, but there was much more too it. I was externally positive. I was kind to the people around me or anybody that I would meet, but inside I was constantly beating myself up for not doing this, or not doing that. My life sucks, etc. Well guess what? My life did suck. It did because I didn’t believe any different. Once I started changing my internal dialog, that is when my life started changing all around. On the outside I was still the same person. Nobody really saw a major difference in me, but I was much happier and had a much broader outlook on life.
So what did I do?
Like I mentioned… I had to change my internal dialog. I had to take baby steps at first. If it rained outside I wouldn’t say, “Oh no. It’s going to be muggy today.” I’d change it around and say, “Wow! Rain. This is awesome!” Sometimes I felt like I was completely bullshitting myself, but I would still continue being positive for everything that happened. Everything! You’ve got to fake it until you make it. Once you start getting into the routine of ‘faking it’ eventually it will start happening automatically. I would start the first thing in the morning before I got out of bed. My dialog to myself was, “Today is going to be an amazing day. What can I create today?” I found myself jumping out of bed, welcoming the new day and all it had to offer. When you start doing this you will be surprised at how many opportunities you have come to you. Positive, like-minded souls will start popping up everywhere. They were always there but when you have your blinders on you just don’t see them. You can’t be a vibrational match to something if you’re on a different vibration yourself. Think of it like a radio. If the station you want to listen to is 94.3 and you are on 92.8… you just aren’t going to be able to hear it. Seems silly, but this is how it works.
We are all vibrations. And whatever frequency we resonate at, that is what we will attract. Like attracts like. It’s just the way it is whether you believe in all the metaphysical mumbo jumbo or not. It’s still our reality.
Do you find yourself in a certain crowd that you don’t want to be a part of? Want to make them disappear? Change your vibration. One of two things will happen. A:) They won’t want to hang around you anymore or B:) You’ll start noticing patterns similar to who you are that you don’t like. It doesn’t mean that these people are bad. It just means that they are on a different vibration than you and they are living their life the way that they believe it to be. And…. This does not mean that you get to preach to them. I can’t stand people who preach. To me they are people who need to have more people on their side to confirm what they are doing. You don’t need any more validation that your own internal dialog. But this is a whole different topic. I don’t want to stray too far away from the subject.
So what can you do for support?
Like any professional, be it a Major League Baseball player or a Singer… you have a coach. No matter what level you are on you need to have somebody there to challenge you. I don’t recommend your partner, I would find somebody you are not in relationship with. Why? Because a good coach will challenge you. A good coach will piss you off at times because they are getting you to think outside of the box. I remember my first coach. I loathed the idea of talking to this person every day. It was exhausting because at the beginning of the day they would say, “So David. What are you going to create today?” It drove me batty. Not just because they would say that but because they would ask me for specific things that I created the day before. And I had to prove it! I had to be accountable for all of my actions. But that coach never took anything personally because they knew it had nothing to do with them. I got my chance to coach people and some of those people still stay in touch with me today. It’s a very humbling position to be in. Again, it’s not about you… the Ego stays out of it. You are there to guide another person, to get them to think out of their box. Some boxes are different sizes. Remember that everybody is on their own journey and your journey is not theirs.
So… every day I want you to count your blessings. I want you to wake up and count all the positive things in your life. You will be surprised at how many positive things you can add up. If you want help… if you need a coach I can do this or I can get you somebody that you are comfortable with.
Namaste,
David