Here Comes The Flood: Break of Reality: Spectrum of the Sky

Marketing your band as "Heavy Metal Cello" is something else again, but it fits for Break of Reality, a New York string "quartet" with three cellists and a drummer that explores the hinterlands of classical music and heavy metal. Most of the bands in that niche play covers, but thankfully these guys write their own material. The album's stand out composition is the four part Anodynia, commissioned by the Victoria Ballet Theatre in Victoria, TX. Ballet isn't on the rock radar as such, but the guys and girls in tight stockings have danced to memorable music for God knows how long and Break of Reality delivers the goods, especially in the slow third movement Grave. The Accidental Death of Effie has Metallica inspired solo, with drumming than Lars Ulrich can only hope to achieve after being locked in drum school for a couple of years straight.

Cellist Patrick Laird has a solid songwriting partner in drummer Ivan Trevino. With their quartet they can teach the kids about "classic rock" playing tons of shows for elementary, middle and high school music students.

Break of Reality:
Philip Borter: cello
Patrick Laird: cello
Martin Torch-Ishii: cello
Ivan Trevino: drums, percussion