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New CD and Tour Update

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For Immediate Release
New Kill Ritual CD Nears Completion/Rescheduled September US Tour Announced

SF Bay Area Metallers Kill Ritual featuring x members of Imagika and Dark Angel are nearing completion of their sophomore CD to be titled “The Eyes Of Medusa” which will be completed in September and again mixed by Andy LaRocque of King Diamond fame and engineered by Kill Ritual guitarist Steve Rice. The CD finds the band expanding on there already diverse metal sound with new found hooks and aggression.

Guitarist Steve Rice comments on the new CD, “The new material finds us digging a little deeper into our influences and roots and solidifying the direction we already established on our debut. We don’t care about classifying ourselves within the genre of Metal because as a band we embrace Metal for all its strengths and it will definitely be apparent on this new album.” An early 2014 release is tentative.

Kill Ritual has also announced rescheduled US Tour dates for September after the injury to guitarist Mehl Anoma forced the cancellation of the bands tour that was to have taken place in March. Mehl Anoma has since left the band due to his continued injury issues and the band will move forward as a 4 pc. The new rescheduled dates are;

Thurs 09/5 Las Vegas, NV – The Cheyenne Saloon
Fri 09/6 Gilbert, AZ – Crabby Don’s
Sat 09/7 Albuquerque, NM – Hooligans
Sun 09/8 El Paso, TX – Bombardiers
Mon 09/9 Las Cruces, NM – The Green Room
Thurs 09/12 Midland, TX – Fast Freddy’s
Sat 09/14 Ft Worth, TX – The Rail Club,
Sun 09/15 Austin, TX – Headhunters
Mon 09/16 San Antonio, TX – Zombies Bar
Thurs 09/19 Corpus Christi, TX – Zero’s Hard Rock Club
Fri 09/20 Houston, TX – Acadia
Sat 09/21 Dallas, TX – Boiler Room
Sun 09/22 Oklahoma City, OK – The Chameleon
Mon 09/23 Wichita, KS – Kirby’s Beer Store
Tues 09/24 Kansas City, MO
Wed 09/25 Lincoln, NE
Thurs 09/26 Cheyenne, WY
Fri 09/27 Casper, WY – The Sandbar Lounge
Sat 09/28 Salt Lake City, UT
Sun 09/29 Reno, NV – Shea’s Tavern

More Dates and venue info will be added when available

Kill Ritual US Tour Cancelled!

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The Kill Ritual US Tour has been cancelled due to the serious injury of our new guitarist Mehl’s left arm that makes it impossible for him to make a fist let alone play any form of guitar. Mehl will be in a cast for 3 weeks with 2-3 weeks of physical therapy after that putting us well past the start date of the tour. He’s done everything possible to make the recovery in time, but it’s not going to happen. Kill Ritual is a 2 guitar band and we don’t feel comfortable presenting our music without the aural assault a 2 guitar attacks brings. We tried to find a last minute replacement to no avail. We tried to make it work in rehearsals with one guitar and it didn’t. The band feels like shit about this and we apologize to our booking company Metal Thunder Entertainment/Scott Clute, all the venues and promoter, other support bands, our management Rock N Growl, our label Scarlet Records and last but definitely not least the people that planned on attending the shows for the cancellation. Shit definitely does happen…..