Knife The Symphony is back with their second release Crawler. Knife features former members of Ampline (Shake It Records/ Tiberius Records) and Theraphosa (Phratry). Formed in January 2006, Jeff Albers, Robyn Roth and Phratry label-owner Jerry Dirr quickly began writing and recording. By late Summer/early Fall of "06 the band had already managed to complete their self-titled EP, begin promotion of the record and play a string of tour dates. In true DIY spirit, there"s been no time wasted. Just a sincere energy and desire to write, record and play. In 2007, the band averaged a show every 7-10 days roughly 50 in all. Knife played throughout the MidWest with a string of heavy hitters such as This Moment In Black History, Riddle Of Steel, Traindodge, their labelmates Sah, and Chicago"s Quatre Tete. At the same time, the band sporadically worked on recordings of their new songs, just shortly after each was written, and eventually compiled the material to create Crawler. While Knife The Symphony"s debut EP could be characterized as more "mid-tempo" with huge drums, sharp percussion grinding bass and layers of sound, Crawler is more fast-paced and spastic. The same, sonic assault applies this time "round but some of the layers have been stripped away and you experience a more, live-sounding version of the band than before. Heavily influenced by hardcore and post-harcore sounds of the 1980"s and "90"s, one could easily compare Knife"s Crawler to Husker Du and tons of Dischord bands. The group is influenced by art, skate culture, film and music. Musically, the band"s influences range from early American punk-music to hardcore/post-hardcore as well as world music and straight-ahead rock. Now in their 30"s, the band members grew up listening to anything they could the first sounds ever heard on MTV in the early 1980"s to reggae and anything ever released by Dischord, SST, Touch & Go (and everything in between). It all comes out in their own music.