For the Seattle-grown Rishloo, music is an adventure without a destination and the only wrong course is backwards. Commonly grouped-in with artists like Dredg, The Mars Volta, Fair to Midland and A Perfect Circle, Rishloo strives to push rock’s envelope by drawing inspiration from celebrated artists such as The Beatles, David Bowie and Pink Floyd along with more modern talent like Tori Amos, Deftones, Radiohead, to Porcupine Tree.

Having been completely independent the last 5 years and sold nearly 2,000 copies of their debut album, Terras Fames (2004) and 1,000+ copies of their sophomore effort, Eidolon (2007), they’ve managed to attract tens of thousands of fans from around the globe. Fully exploiting the accessibility and convenience of sites such as Last FM, Myspace, Reverb Nation and several others has fueled exponential growth for the band. In the last 6 months alone, Rishloo’s Last FM plays nearly quadrupled from 60,000 to 220,000 and continue to increase at a rate of 1000-2000 plays daily.

Rishloo continues to pay their dues in blood, sweat and extremely hard work as a wholly independent group touring throughout the U.S. and parts of Canada on a number of self-promoted tours. Along the way they’ve been privileged to share the stage with Papa Roach, Fair to Midland, Ashes Divide, Sevendust, Trapt, Strata and even Judas Priest. Now it’s only a matter of time until the entire world will hear the voices of Rishloo as they continue writing and begin recording for their third release, Feather Gun (due June 2009). Then after, their plans are to continue pushing their tours outward and break into international markets while enlightening many in the process whether it be as a signed or independent group.



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Dave Gillett : Guitarist
Sean Rydquist : Bassist
Jesse Smith : Drummer
Drew Mailloux : Vocalist

Past Member(s) :
Tyler (Drums)

www.rishloo.com
www.myspace.com/rishlooband