Peace,
David
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Karma Machine North American Tour
Bassist and Drummer for upcoming Tour Announced
For the last few months you’ve watched us shuffle around getting ready for this tour. You’ve seen members leave because they can’t commit to touring, others jump in to help us with gigs we had committed to…. to now.
After searching long and hard for the right people to do this tour, we’re one step closer to what we have been searching so very hard for….
Let me start by saying this… Touring isn’t for everyone. It takes a lot of commitment and a lot of time and money. Unless you’re Black Sabbath or Metallica you can’t just hand a Million Dollar check over to a new member and welcome them aboard. As most touring musicians that are trying to establish a name for themselves know, it’s finding people that are committed enough to leave their day jobs, with enough foresight to somehow know that there are bigger and better things for them. It’s a hard sell and not many are willing to make that commitment. You really need to be a dreamer, a realist, and motivated as all hell.
That brings me to this….
We’d like you to welcome Bassist and Drummer for our 2016 Spring Tour. It will be fun working with them for this tour until we find permanent members for our next album.
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| Beauty In The Suffering producer DieTrich Thrall (ex-Doyle, Marazene) on bass. |
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| Alexis Von Kraven (Moxy, Heaven’s Fire) on Drums. |
and Byron Nemeth – Lead Guitar.
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We’re looking forward to touring with these guys. With over 7,000 miles of traveling, 20 cities in 26 days we will get to know each other pretty well. Please follow our tour schedule here on a group that we’ve made on Facebook

Stone Temple Pilots Auditions
This past month a few friends and I did a Scott Weiland Memorial show at Vamp’d in Las Vegas. We honestly weren’t expecting a big turnout, we just wanted to do it to honor a man with a lot of talent that, unfortunately, had an addiction the he could no longer control and left this planet far too early. We see it a lot in the music world. Musicians are sensitive creatures.
Anyway, you all know me well enough to know that I love what I do and that I put my heart and soul into everything that I’m involved with. So when the opportunity came along to actually audition for Stone Temple Pilots, it was something that I could not pass up. This by no means downplays my involvement with Kill Ritual. Not in the least. We have a tour coming up in March that I am very excited for and Steven and I have been working our asses off to make happen.
Please continue to support me as you’ve all done so well, and continue to support my band Kill Ritual.
Enjoy these audition videos I’ve done for STP.
Peace!!!
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Being Held Accountable
Being Held Accountable
I was having a conversation here at the house with a friend about this subject just the other day, and that inspired me to write a little bit about it. I’ve mentioned to you before that I believe everything happens for a reason and that I don’t believe in ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ but what works and what doesn’t work. A scientist would say, cause=effect. I agree for the most part. For every action there is a reaction. The Yin and the Yang. You can’t have one without the other, at least in the Universe we live in right at this moment. So how does this equate when something happens to you which causes an effect? Let’s say, you were abused as a child and therefore the rest of your life you don’t trust anybody. How can you be held accountable for that? It’s a touchy subject, I know, but we, as human beings, once we hit a certain age, have a choice. We can choose to be the victim or we can choose to let go of the past. When we don’t let go of the past, it becomes a crutch. And that crutch we use to make an excuse for why we are the way we are. It’s an easier road to follow because then we don’t have to be held accountable. People can say, “Oh poor so-and-so, he’s that way because of ‘blank’.” It’s a free pass that a lot of people take. Some of these people don’t even know that they are playing the victim, because whatever happened to them in their childhood is buried deep in their subconscious.
So how do we recognize this?
Follow the patterns. Is there a default, go to, when something goes wrong? Do you get to a certain plateau and then sabotage yourself? Start looking for these signs, and once you recognize these patterns you can start putting together the puzzle. Because once you recognize these patterns you can start to change them. Don’t give up on yourself and just say that this is who you are… because it is not. We were all born perfect but we were not all born with the perfect circumstances. Some have had more challenging lives than others, I agree. But that doesn’t give you an excuse to play the Victim. I’m a firm believer that we are all here for a reason. Each one of us touches each others lives.
So what can you do to change it?
As I stated above… recognize the patterns and when you start to follow that pattern stop yourself. Don’t beat yourself up if you follow through, just recognize it and make a mental note. As time goes on it will become easier and easier to curb the pattern. Look at our brains like grooves in a record. The needle will always follow that groove unless you skip the record, keep skipping the record in the same spot and you will cut a new groove. Get with a hypnotist and maybe you can get to the heart of the matter more effectively. It might trigger some memory and you’ll have an ‘Ah Ha’ moment. Get a Reiki session with me… energy work does wonders.
In summary…
Being held accountable for our actions on a global scale can stop wars. There are too many people pointing fingers and blaming others instead of looking in the mirror and recognizing that they are a part of the problem. On a smaller scale, in your own community, crime wouldn’t exist because none of us could do that to another. Moses said it best, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” If we all followed that one sentence it would change this world completely.
Namaste,
P.S.
A copy of this blog can be found in new issue of the Sin City Presents Magazine.
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Tour Dates
For Immediate Release
Published by Extreme Management Group
Heavy Metal Band Kill Ritual (Amon-Ra, Imagika, Rage of Angels) announce headline U.S. tour, debut show at 2016 Winter NAMM, and sign worldwide deal with Extreme Management Group.
With the announcement of their 2016 spring headlining tour, Heavy Metal act Kill Ritual has now joined the massive roster of Extreme Management Group, Inc. Kill Ritual will be making their live debut at the 2016 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) convention this Friday, January 22nd at Malone’s in California followed by a spring tour starting February 29th.
Kill Ritual would also like to welcome new guitarist and member Byron Nemeth (Sacred Heart, Amon-Ra) to the fold on second guitar. You can find out more about Byron (at his) website.
Kill Ritual released their new album Karma Machine in 2015 along with a video for the song “Rise” that was mixed/mastered by guitar legend, King Diamond member, Andy LaRocque at his Sonic Train Studios.
2016 ushers in a brand new year for Kill Ritual with their new Management team at Extreme Management Group.
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ABOUT Kill Ritual
Formed in 2010 by former members of Imagika, Dark Angel, and Eldritch, Kill Ritual launched themselves into the metal world with their debut CD “The Serpentine Ritual” in 2012 on Scarlet Records and the band was immediately rewarded with great reviews and positive reaction from fans around the world. The band then completed a US tour in the fall of 2013 and followed it up with the release of their 2014 CD “The Eyes Of Medusa” on Golden Core/ZYX and again received great press and accolades from fans worldwide.
February 2015: Kill Ritual recruit Vocalist David Reed Watson (Rage of Angels, D.N.A., Electric Messiah, The Constant) to record their new CD “Karma Machine”.
September 2015: They release their newest CD “Karma Machine” on Scarlet Records which was produced by Guitarist Steve Rice at his Fossil Sound Studios and mixed/mastered by Guitar legend, King Diamond member, Andy LaRocque at his Sonic Train Studios in Sweden.
2016 ushers in a brand new year for Kill Ritual with their new Management team, Extreme Management Group, Tone Deaf Touring, to line up their Spring 2016 Tour as well as adding second Lead Guitarist, Byron Nemeth (Amon-Ra, Sacred Heart, Byron Nemeth Group) to the mix.
We’d like to welcome Alex Von Kraven who will be sharing the stage with us, starting at NAMM and then on to our Spring Tour starting in late February. Alex has quite an impressive resume with bands like; Heaven’s Fire, Moxy, Eternal Halloween and now us. Alex uses (and abuses) Mapex Drums, Zildjian, Los Cabos Drumsticks, Evans Drumheads. Find out more about Alex on his webpage. We’re pretty excited with this new lineup and can’t wait to play together.
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VIDEO LINKS:
Karma Machine Album Preview: https://youtu.be/BgeJhMzJ34A
Rise: https://youtu.be/Y6wNWhRzdJY?list=RDY6wNWhRzdJY
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LINKS/SOCIAL:
Website: http://www.killritual.com
Tour Dates: http://www.bandsintown.com/KillRitual
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/killritual
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/killritual
Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/rpk/killritual
Bandcamp: https://killritualmetal.bandcamp.com/
Sound Cloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/killritualmetal
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/killritual
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MANAGEMENT:
Extreme Management Group, Inc.
Contact: Mark Kloeppel
Email: emg.markkloeppel@gmail.com







