David Cross of King Crimson alumni performing Larks Tongue w/s/g Epic Tantrum

DAVID CROSS is an English electric violinist and keyboardist best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson from 1972 to 1974. Cross appears on their studio albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973) and Starless and Bible Black (1974), as well as “Providence”, a live track on Red (1974), in addition to numerous concert recordings that have been released by Robert Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label in the decades since.

After leaving the band, David was a senior lecturer in Music Education at the London Metropolitan University and besides several projects and recording sessions, he kept alive his own band since 1994 releasing 10 albums. 

In recent years David Cross has toured all around Europe, Latin America and Japan with Stick Men (with other King Crimson alumni, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, plus Markus Reuter), vexing featured on albums Midori and Panamerica; as well with David Jackson, the legendary sax player from Van Der Graaf Generator. In 2023 David toured with his band all around Europe celebrating the 50th anniversary of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic album. In 2024, DAVID CROSS and his LARKS' TONGUES BAND will continue touring all around Europe, Japan and North and South America, adding some material from Starless And Bible Back and Red album to the band’s live repertoire. Recently, JOHN MITCHELL, a member of several popular progressive rock acts such as Frost, It Bites and Arena, John Wetton Band, Martin Barre of Jethro Tull, has joined the band as the lead vocalist and guitarist

DAVID CROSS - electric violin JOHN MITCHELL - guitar, lead vocals SHEILA MALONEY - keyboards MICK PAUL - bass guitar JACK SUMMERFIELD - drums

Epic Tantrum released their critically acclaimed debut album "Abandoned in the Strangers Room" in January of 2020. Their record release show in NYC was supposed to be on March 13, 2020 in NYC but was cancelled at the last moment due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With all their touring plans on hold, the band made plans to keep busy. They participated in two extremely popular virtual concerts for charity.

The first one, "Six String Salute" was a virtual concert benefiting Live Nation's Crew Nation, a global relief fund for live music crews. Six String Salute was seen by over 250,000 worldwide and included appearances and performances from Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Steve Vai, Tommy Shaw (Styx), Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes), Halestorm, Rik Emmett (Triumph), Joe Satriani, Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake, TSO), Frank Hannon (Tesla), the triple guitar attack of Alice Cooper’s Nita Strauss, Tommy Henriksen and Ryan Roxie, Richard Williams (Kansas), Alex Skolnick (Testament), Jennifer Batten, Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Steve Hackett (Genesis), as well as others. Epic Tantrum performed their song "Franklin Park Blues" live from their studio.

The second virtual show was Sea Of Tranquility Fall Fest 2020, its first ever curated virtual concert to benefit The Humane Society's COVID-19 Relief Fund. The concert included Doro Pesch, Uriah Heep, Mark Kelly (Marillion), Joe Bouchard (formerly of Blue Oyster Cult), Andy Powell (Wishbone Ash), Gentle Giant and fans, Jeff Young (Ex-Megadeth/ex-Badi Assad), Lance King, Luke Fortini, Dwiki Dharmawan, Epic Tantrum, Gary Husband, Wingffield/Reuter/Stavi/Sirikis, Zero Hour, Fernando Perdomo, Glass Hammer, Ilium, Jack Hues (Wang Chung), Jim Ledford, Mike Antonelli and Friends and more.

Epic Tantrum was so well received that they were asked to perform in a follow up song in a bonus edition of the Sea of Tranquility Fest that aired a month later.

Epic Tantrum has already opened for Kings's X, PAKT (featuring Alex Skolnick, Percy Jones, Kenny Growhowski and Tim Motzer), Stick Men (Tony Levin of Peter Gabriel and King Crimson and Markus Reuter of King Crimson), Wishbone Ash, Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater and YYNOT to name a few.

“A perfect blend of prog and metal” - Mike Portnoy

“Epic Tantrum is like the bastard children of Rush and Steely Dan. Powerful clever songs with twists and turns and musicianship to match. This band is something special.” - Ioannis of DangerousAge Graphics who has designed covers for King Crimson, Dream Theater, Sepultura and many more

"In the end, what you get to enjoy is one of the more exciting up and coming bands in progressive metal that are going to raise some eyebrows from this point forward." - ProgRock Music talk

"this band is a force to be reckoned with on stage" - SeaOfTranquility.org

"Really great. A fresh approach to the modern Prog. Very tight. Favorite track: Don't Bother..." - Leonardo Pavkovic from MoonJune Records

"The songwriting on this album was first-rate, as well as the recording. This is a band that if they ever come down my way to perform in one of our clubs, I would be there to see them perform live and meet this band in person." - Oasis Entertainment