Our album releases tomorrow (Sept. 18th). I’ve got that nervous, anxious feeling in my gut. This is my first release in a couple of years and I never really know what to expect from the fans, friends and family. In a way its like throwing darts at a wall with a blindfold on.
As artists, we pour our hearts out, we get vulnerable, and for that brief moment it gets captured for eternity for all to hear. Some bash the work, not caring about the sweat put into it, some praise it and some just shrug their shoulders and don’t give it a second thought. It’s part of the price we pay. No other job, and I use ‘job’ for a lack of a better term and for this context only, do you get paid less for working so hard. But, it’s the only job that I find rewarding to my soul. So it’s not about the money. Never has been. It’s about release. It’s therapeutic. We, as artists, do what we do because this is our therapy. Whenever I see somebody not following their heart, somebody doing the daily grind because they believe they have to, I thank the universe that I am blessed enough to have gotten out of the matrix. There is no ‘have to’. It’s your own limiting belief telling you that you have to. Anyway, I’m not here to talk to you about limiting beliefs, I’ll save that for another blog. So, I digress… The Album.
Tomorrow, Sept. 18th, the day I’ve been waiting months for will be here. This is a new road for me, uncharted territory, and I’d be a liar if I said I wasn’t scared. But the road less travelled is always scary as it is refreshing. Kill Ritual has always been a Thrash Metal band, but with me now in it, it has shaken more than a few branches on the traditional Metal tree, as the reviews have been bi-polar… they don’t know how to classify this just as we don’t either. I’ll leave that up to you to decide. It is done.
I urge you to pick up a copy on either iTunes or Amazon. Watch our video and share it with as many people as you would like to. Request our song Rise on any radio station that you listen to that has a request line. Come see us play if you get a chance to. Our goal is global… we love what we do and we hope that you do as well.
Peace,
David
