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Please welcome our new Bass Player

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Ladies and Gents, Kill Ritual fans near and far…

We would like to introduce you to Alexandre Santos who will be playing Bass for Kill Ritual,
both touring and helping write their next album, The Opaque and the Divine.

We will be throwing him right in the fire for his first show with us in Las Vegas for
Kiss Night at Count’s Vamp’d, October 20th.

Alex is best known for his work and composition with the Portuguese melodic rock/metal band
Scar For Life (2008–present) and for his collaboration with other established heavy rock musicians
in the bands D.N.A. (2013) and Stagma (2018–present). If you recall, David (KR Vox)
and Alex collaborated with Kane Roberts (Alice Cooper), Neil Fraser (Ten, Rage of Angels, Stagma),
Mikael Carlsson (Lover Under Cover), as well as João Colaço (Rage of Angels, Scar For Life) creating D.N.A..

Speaking with David he has mentioned how excited he is to work with Alex again.

“Alex and I are like brothers. We argue, we laugh, and we create magic together.
I’ve been long looking forward to working with him again.
He will be an incredible asset to this band.
He is also one of the best songwriters I know.” – David Reed Watson

Alex also established his own recording and production facility, PressPlay Music, in 2008
for which he has mixed and produced several albums.

Make sure you check out Alex’s website if you would like to delve further into who this incredible talent is.

Alex Santos Music

Thank you to everybody that submitted videos, audio, phone conversations, and emails back and forth.
With all of the many variables entailed It was a difficult situation pinning down the right guy for this job.
So, again… thank you for your efforts and support. – Steve, David, Seamus, and Alex

 

 

 

 

 

Rock The Talk with Kill Ritual

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Tonight on ‘Rock The Talk’ David will be having his bandmates from Kill Ritual on the phone so tune in!
 
We will be giving away some Kill Ritual T-Shirts and maybe some other weird stuff.
 
Every Wednesday Night from 6pm to 9pm PST.
 
Call in on the hotline
702-832-0364
 
Plug into your browser
 
 
or download our free app for both iPhone and Android.
 
 
 
Peace!
 
#rockthetalk #wherevegasgoestorock #tabor #kickeraudio

KR Update (June 12, 2018)

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Hey gang,
We’ve got a lot coming up here for the fall. We can’t let the cat out of the bag as of yet but we want to include you all so, if we could get you guys and gals to do a few things for us…
 
1. Private Message David pictures of one or more of us from a previous tour. Let us know your name and where and when you saw us.
 
2. PM David pictures of you with your Kill Ritual TShirt and/or CD and if you got them via a tour let us know the same info… where and when you saw us and your name.
 
3. We will be looking for more admins to manage our social media preferably those that know WordPress. Gin is great with the Facebook and Instagram so I want to give her a big shout out but we’re spreading her pretty thin so we want to get a few people to help her out.
 
4. We will be setting up our Kill Ritual Merch account this week. If you don’t have your 2018 North American Tour TShirts get them soon.
 
Peace!
David Reed Watson, Steven D. Rice, Seamus Gleason, Chris Lotesto & Jim Pegram

The Incorruptible North American Tour

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Kill Ritual is joining Iced Earth and Sanctuary on
The Incorruptible World Tour across the U.S. and Canada
from February 22 through March 29

 

Dates are as follows:

2/22 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe
2/23 Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts
2/24 Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
2/25 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Ballroom
2/26 Minneapolis, MN – Music Hall
2/27 Omaha, NE – Sokol Underground
2/28 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
3/2 Edmonton, AB – Starlite Room
3/3 Calgary, AB – Marquee Beer Market & Stage
3/4 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
3/5 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
3/7 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
3/8 Los Angeles, CA – Belasco Theater
3/9 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
3/10 Anaheim, CA – Parish @ House of Blues
3/11 Phoenix, AZ – The Pressroom
3/13 San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre
3/14 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
3/15 Houston, TX – House of Blues
3/16 New Orleans, LA – Parish @ House of Blues
3/17 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
3/18 Charlotte, NC – Underground
3/19 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
3/21 Wilmington, DE – The Queen
3/22 New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
3/23 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
3/24 Quebec City, QC – Imperial Bell
3/25 Montreal, QC – Corona Theater
3/26 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Theater
3/27 Cleveland, OH – Cambridge Room @ House of Blues
3/28 Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall
3/29 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge

Kill Ritual’s next record “All Men Shall Fall” drops 2/23 on Dissonance Productions

(Continental Concerts USA, AFFLICTION, Live Nation Concerts)

KILL RITUAL SIGN WITH DISSONANCE PRODUCTIONS; ALL MEN SHALL FALL ALBUM DUE IN FEBRUARY; “MEGALOMANIAC” LYRIC VIDEO STREAMING

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US metallers, Kill Ritual, have inked a deal with Dissonance Productions, and will release their new album, All Men Shall Fall, in 2018. A lyric video for the new track “Megalomania”, is available for streaming below.

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 (Scarlet Records) and the band were immediately rewarded with great reviews and positive reaction from around the world.

Following the initial success the band completed a US tour in the fall of 2013 and followed it up with the release of The Eyes Of Medusa in 2014 (Golden Core/ZYX_ and again received great press and accolades from fans and press worldwide.

2015 saw Kill Ritual recruiting vocalist David Reed Watson (Rage Of Angels, Electric Messiah) to record their new CD Karma Machine after the departure of original vocalist Josh Gibson and ushered in a new direction and focus to the bands already expansive sound. The band followed the release with a full US tour in 2016 and European tour with NWOBHM legends Raven in June 2017.

2018 again sees the band releasing their new CD, All Men Shall Fall, via Dissonance Productions with yet another new slew of touring hence bringing their definition of metal to the masses.

Kill Ritual vocalist David Reed Watson: “We are honoured to join the Dissonance Productions roster. What a great pedigree of bands. Looking forward to great things!”

Label Boss Steve Beatty: “Powerful and vibrant, these boys know how to deliver a tune! Happy to have this highly talented band aboard the Dissonance freight train!”

Music Junkie Press

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Thank you Music Junkie Press for these amazing photos!

Kill Ritual Live in Santa Rosa, California

Meet The Band – David Reed Watson

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MEET THE BAND – David Reed Watson

We are doing a series of questions and answers to help everyone get to know the guys a little better! The fifth band member is David Reed Watson. If you would like to follow along with the Question and Answers just go to our Facebook Group that we’ve set up for the tour. You can access it here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/killritual/