We'll get the obvious out of the way. Murder by Death is not a metal band. Not even close. In the words of songwriter/singer/guitarist Adam Turla, it's "a rock and roll band with a little bit of country. There’s a cello, a guy with a low voice, and some piano. It’s music that can exist at any time. And we tell great stories.”
There you have it. Murder By Death—named after the 1976 Neil Simon movie—is a rock n’ roll band. And a damn good one. Turla and his bandmates met at Indiana University. A religious studies and English major, Turla has been obsessed with the craft of writing since his college days, when he started writing poetry. A self-professed lover of the classics, Turla can dish about everyone from Hemingway to Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the best of ‘em.
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