The Love Kills Theory

the love kills theory is an artistic attempt to bring contemporary philosophy into the mainstream where it can be accessible and relevant. The group is fronted by Cevin Soling, who is currently studying philosophy for his Masters degree at Harvard University. the love kills theory is based on an amalgam of the works of Guy Debord, founder of Situationist International, Aldous Huxley, and others, fused with the current bio-genetic studies on the evolution of despair.
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As a multi-expressive musician, writer, filmmaker (his feature film, THE WAR ON THE WAR ON DRUGS will be released on DVD this spring), artist and student, Cevin spends much time reading an array of material; as well as making music and films. Recent projects include a documentary on the Ik Tribe, who live in a mountainous region of Uganda, and were known to defecate in front of the huts of their fellow tribesman, allow the elder and weaker members of their tribe to die, and other heartless behaviors. Cevin also learned of a more humble group of people living just off of Fiji in the Pacific Rim, who prophesized that an American would come and deliver many goods to them on a specific date. Through donations, Cevin assembled large supplies of gardening tools, fishing rigs, cooking pots and utensils, hunting knives, and more for the tribesmen. The delivery of the goods through the use of boats and chartered planes all led to the tribal Chief Isaac Wan affirming that the prophecy on the island of Tanna had been fulfilled.
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The rest of the band is made up of great musicians. Keyboardist, Bill Brandau had been a member of The Vinnie Barbarino Experience. When they broke up, he and Cevin formed Cevin's first band, The Neanderthal Spongecake where Bill also served as engineer on all their recordings. Darren Pilato's a music nerd, who, when he wasn't attending law school, notated bass lines to songs for fun; he's attended Victor Wooten's bass camp in Nashville twice. Jaron Stewart can't stay still; raised by a father who was a successful figure skater, Jaron had a career as a ski-jumper and then focused on his music career, actually gigging one night with "American Pie" songwriter Don McLean. Jim Minics is also a philosopher, and for several years has been thinking and writing his "random thoughts of a practicing beach bum." He says, "My teacher, in high school, called me an idealistic asshole." Jim's 2003 band Minix was a semi-finalist in the Independent Music World Series, and he's played for several bands in the studio and on tours as a lead guitarist and vocalist.
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As their name implies, the love kills theory is as much of a manifesto as a band. Society has reached a point in its development where the pursuit of the things we love - indulgence in all of its forms - is killing us by making us all soulless consumers. If art can't be resurrected, at least the reasons for its death will be documented in the love kills theory's songs.