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NORMAL LOVE

Is my brain a germ or a disease?

About Me

"Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring."
-Roman Polanski
++++Stoking the community since '06, NORMAL LOVE is a Philadelphia based quintet comprised of amplified violin, two electric guitars, electric bass, and drum set.++++
“Technical near near-impossibility aside, Normal Love’s music molds tightly-coiled power riffing into segments of acidic beauty and transcendent force."
-Signal To Noise
“Philly’s best metal band is also its best avant-garde classical ensemble. Or possibly it’s the other way around. Unlike symphonic metal bands that simply layer cheesy strings over bombastic rock songs, Normal Love writes intricate and difficult instrumental pieces inspired by modernist classical composers, and then play them with death-metal ferocity. The result is music that succeeds at being alternately brutal and beautiful, sometimes both at the same time. By totally shredding and shredding clichés, Normal Love is proving that prog doesn’t have to be a four letter word.”
–Billboard.com
“For all their precision, and holy hell, the aural somersaults and tightrope-walks they pull off make Cirque du Soleil look like a flea circus, NORMAL LOVE is messy. Rock ‘n’ roll messy. Spontaneous-combustion messy… NL, which recently released its debut self-titled CD on High Two, makes brutally intricate music, aggressive and perfectionist. If the Warriors had scratched past the Orphans and the Baseball Furies only to chance upon a shiv-wielding chamber ensemble, Normal Love would be perfectly cast.”
-Philadelphia City Paper
“Philly’s Normal Love are a breed apart, ripping through hypercomplex scores with the chops of a chamber ensemble and the intensity of a metal band. Sure, they’re “loud and brutal,” ultradissonant, but darned if they aren’t poised and polished.”
-Philly Weekly
"Along with Zs, this Philadelphia band is the future of music. Buckle up and get ready."
-Music Meridian

DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/4/2006
Band Website: normallove.com
Band Members: Carlos Santiago // Alex Nagle // Amnon Freidlin // Evan Lipson // Eli Litwin
Record Label: High Two Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

2008: in the lab

We're currently on a semi-hiatus from playing shows. We've been hard at work frothing up several flavor-blasted jams to unleash on the road this summer. Additionally, as part of our Brutal Community O...
Posted by NORMAL LOVE on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:49:00 PST

DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW

EARTH PEEP-HOLEZ: We're pumped to announce that our debut full-length CD is finally out on High Two Recordings! You can order the plastic directly from hightwo.com or at amazon.com, or download it fro...
Posted by NORMAL LOVE on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:31:00 PST

Hot Mess

Shaun Brady brazenly fabulates about NL:http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2007/03/08/hot-mess...
Posted by NORMAL LOVE on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:34:00 PST

NORMAL LOVE

..>..>NORMAL LOVEby Jack SmithEarly that morning I could see that the day would be an ordeal. The Cretins were most excitable and openly masturbated, overstimulating the pinheads. Today they would put...
Posted by NORMAL LOVE on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 05:16:00 PST