Toxic Black Rose

To think it started in 2001 when the girls were practically kids. To think back to their first song, recorded in a garage using a high tech 5 dollar cassette recorder with a towel over the mike to muffle the sound. The first song, No Respect, took 2 months to complete and upon the first listen we all knew the artistic floodgates had been opened.Fast forward to the present and the girls are almost fully grown. Over 50 live shows and 30 original songs under their belt, with a unique style that blends, warps, and completely defies such genres as pop punk, rock, pop, screamo and even softcore acoustic rock.This triumvirate of teens consists of Erika Scharwath on lead guitar and vocals, Kirsten Carl on vocals and bass guitar and Monica Cessario on drums. The girls met in middle school. The band has performed at the Mt. Dora Arts Festival, Leesburg Arts Festival, Orlando Fringe Festival, Deland Music Festival, Daytona Beach Music festival, and assorted local music venues. They have also given back to the community by raising over 1000 dollars for a scholarship fund named after a deceased student, raising over 300 dollars for The American Cancer Society Battle of the bands, performed twice at Camp Challenge Easter Seals, The Orlando Coalition For the Homeless and even got political at a democratic function where the band played for a future Florida candidate for Governor. TBR also won 300 dollars at The Eustis Main Street Battle of The Bands and recently were invited to three other battle of the bands by word of mouth.TBR has been in over five local newspapers and were on the cover of "Not Popular" magazine and had a full page story in The Daily Commercial newspaper.They were also interviewed three time on the "Orlando Underground Radio Network Show". The girls had their song "World of Lacking" in an independent movie called "Just Take A Pill". The director was so impressed with them a future video, movie short will be filmed and submitted to film festivals.Toxic Black Rose will pull you into their world with heartfelt music concerning what is essentially at the core of all of us... our day to day heartbreaks and laments. The band plays high energy enthusiastic shows. Currently there is a five song demo completed (3 studio and 2 live songs) and a professional live DVD concert filmed at Full Sail in Orlando, FL.