In 1995 ‘KARMA TO BURN’ put instrumental rock music on the map. Hailing from the Appalachian mountains, swigging on hip flasks full of cheap whiskey and 20/20 vodka, ‘KARMA TO BURN’ started their journey with only a backpack full of riffs and a bad at- titude for authority. After signing to Roadrunner Records in 1997, ‘KARMA TO BURN’ released their first album (self titled). Roadrunner insisted that the album include vocals in order to mar- ket the release to a wider audience. The group ultimately gave in and found a vocalist, but the members knew this was a temporary fix. The music they were writing did not need vocals; it spoke for itself. After the album was released, the vocalist was ditched, leaving the band free to pursue their original purely-instrumental vision. This vision paved the way for two seminal and critically acclaimed masterpieces ‘WILD WONDERFUL PURGATORY’ (1999) & ‘ALMOST HEATHEN’ (2001). The group imploded in 2002, re-united in 2009 and returned to pursuing the instrumental vision that they originally created, however, integrated a more experimental approach to their musical style.