Rom

Rom, formerly known as Apathy Orchard, is a northern Chicago suburb based independent artist. His influences range from mathrock bands like Dance Gavin Dance, Polyphia and Chon down to video game BGM from Persona and the Destiny Child OST.

In mid 2018, the band parted ways. Though discouraged and alone, Rom was given opportunities to soul search and continue down the musical journey by meeting <a href="spotify:artist:1hW1kY3YuOZzwHbonBJA8S" data-name="Kyle Ekstrom">Kyle Ekstrom</a>. From here, Rom worked closely with Kyle, writing guitars for him as they helped to develop each other&#39;s brands.

Around the same time, Rom joined forces with <a href="spotify:artist:0GTwFyWHFO4o6iWDb0dWk1" data-name="Chasing Chimera">Chasing Chimera</a>, who he&#39;d been a fan of for a while. After about a year of gigging around and some slowdown, Rom stepped down to focus more on his own music. To this day, Rom and Chasing Chimera still keep in touch, working closely together to market each other&#39;s music.

In 2020, amongst the temporary closing of public events. Rom took some time to help his boss by playing drums in his Mexican rock band, Nanucos. The band however only ended up practicing with no hope of shows given the climate of live music at the time, so when the band fizzled, Rom was left once again to focus on his own projects.

In 2021, Rom started streaming on Twitch. From writing music to playing games, he set out to right the faults of last years drought in activity by promising to be more active this year. On his birthday, April 6th, he decided to finally release <a href="spotify:track:364Px6zztOz7chZ7pPeVhu" data-name="Rice Feels">Rice Feels</a>. And so starts the journey that YOU are apart of now.