The KD Band

The KD Band is a band originally formed by Chill57181, Mario Arkay, Penquino, and LMGT. They were most popular on Shops Island and were very successful there, because all of the band's members had previously been in the public eye through Shops politics. However, they weren't nearly as popular elsewhere. They only released one album before deciding to end the band after the tragic events of Calada, Eh?, but made a surprise return in 2018.

History
The KD Band was formed out of boredom in the Summer of 2012 by Chill57181, Mario Arkay, Penquino, and LMGT, after the release of Penquino's single The Eggnog Starts Now!. In December 2012, they decided to go professional, and LMGT left the band to devote more time to other projects, and Bro joined the band in his place.

In early 2013, the band announced their first album, Let's Rock!. Shortly after, they began the Let's Rock Tour to showcase some of their new songs. Let's Rock! was released on May 26th, 2013, to critical acclaim on Shops Island.

However, a few months prior, Mario was teleported into another dimension and originally presumed deleted while on vacation in Calada. While trying to figure out how the band would go on, they eventually agreed it would be best if they ended the band. Because of this, a second album which Chill had begun writing songs for titled (Not So) Stupid Songs was scrapped.

In May 2018, Chill was bored and came up with an idea for a new KD Band album and decided to revive the band. Chill contacted the others, and Penquino agreed to rejoin. Bro was less optimistic and refused to rejoin the band, calling it a "failed experiment" and telling Chill to leave it in the past. Chill decided Bro was being "broring" and instead got his friend The Ed to join the band in his place, who had previously wrote the hit song "Without Memes I Will Die". As Mario was still legally considered dead by the Shopper government and living off the radar in Chill Island, he didn't rejoin.

With everything in place, Chill announced the surprise revival of The KD Band and their new album, OOOOkay We're Back, scheduled to release later that summer. Unlike Let's Rock!, the new album would only be released as a digital download, and the band would not go on tour because they were busy with other things in their lives.

Future
In the spring of 2027, Penquino came to Chill with the idea of reviving The KD Band once again to host a benefit concert to raise money for refugees displaced by the Shops Civil War, which Chill thought was a great idea. To stir up even more interest, he dug through The KD Band's archives and found several songs that were left unreleased for various reasons, and decided to release a new album with them. In addition to Penquino and The Ed, LMGT also rejoined the band for the first time since 2012 now that he was no longer preoccupied with running the SIA, now playing bass guitar.

With the band reassembled, they got to work completing the rest of the unfinished songs and recording them. Nearly all of The KD Band's unreleased and unfinished songs were produced, with the exception of one song titled "Being Really Overwhelmingly bad", which was written by Chill in 2018 making fun of Bro after he didn't join the band's revival. The band unanimously decided not to produce it out of respect for Bro, who had died two years earlier at the beginning of the war. The resulting album, Keep the Music Alive, was released as a digital download that summer, with all proceeds going to benefit the Shopper refugees. The benefit concert was held on Chill Island shortly afterwards.

Members

 * Chill57181 (Keyboard, Vocals) - Founder of the band.
 * Erik von Penquino (Drums, Vocals) - Founder of the band who also has a small solo career.
 * The Ed (Guitar, Vocals) - Joined the band for its 2018 revival. Successful solo singer/songwriter of "Without Memes I Will Die".

Past

 * Lm34gt45 (Guitar, Vocals) - Founder of the band, left in late 2012 to devote more time to other things.
 * Mario Arkay (Vocals) - Founder of the band that disappeared for a while, causing the remaining members to decide to end the band for five years.
 * Bro (Guitar, Vocals) - Joined the band after LMGT left, and helped to write their first album, Let's Rock.

Let's Rock! (2013)
Let's Rock! is the first album by The KD Band, released on May 26th, 2013. It was released on CD in Shops Island and its territories, and as a digital download throughout the rest of Antarctica.

On this album, the band's lineup consists of:
 * Chill57181 - Keyboard, vocals
 * Erik von Penquino - Drums, vocals
 * Mario Arkay - Vocals
 * Bro - Electric guitar, vocals

OOOOkay We're Back (2018)
OOOOkay We're Back is the second album by The KD Band, released in the Summer of 2018. Unlike Let's Rock!, it was released as a digital download only.

On this album, the band's lineup consists of:
 * Chill57181 - Keyboard, vocals
 * Erik von Penquino - Drums, vocals
 * The Ed - Electric guitar, vocals

Keep the Music Alive (2027)
Keep the Music Alive is the third album by The KD Band, released in the summer of 2027. The album mostly consists of new recordings of previously unfinished or unreleased KD Band songs. It was released primarily as a digital download, though a limited physical run was briefly available at FreezeShop and Eggnog Emporium. All proceeds from the album went toward supporting displaced Shopper refugees after the Shops Civil War.

On this album, the band's lineup consists of:
 * Chill57181 - Keyboard, vocals
 * Erik von Penquino - Drums, vocals
 * Lm34gt45 - Bass guitar, vocals
 * The Ed - Electric guitar, vocals
 * Mario Arkay - Vocals (archive audio)

Reception
The KD Band enjoyed most of its success on Shops Island, thanks to all of its members being in the public eye through Shops politics. During its 2018 revival, popularity skyrocketed on Chill Island, which was mostly because of The Ed joining the band. Elsewhere in Antarctica however, they were much less popular.

Their first album, Let's Rock!, sold very well in Shops Island, and topped Shopper charts during the week of its release. Concert tickets for the Let's Rock Tour also sold well. In the rest of Antarctica it was largely ignored, and the little reception it did get dismissed it as generic, outdated, and nothing special.