User:Pianocidal/Pianocidal

Pianocidal is the nom de guerre of Michigan-born songwriter Jason Kiernan. Raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Kiernan was a lifelong fan of music and demonstrated such by playing in high-school and college bands. Instead of pursuing music full-time, he opted to attend the University of Michigan, obtaining a baccalaureate degree in nursing, and later Wayne State University, obtaining a Master's of Science degree, after which he worked as a nurse practitioner in oncology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Music was never too far off, though, and Pianocidal recorded and released 5 albums' worth of material in 10 years. 2000's Far Cry From Divine featured work with jazz-trained drummer John Spaccarotella. 2001's Pianocidal Maniac was a step toward the rock edge. 2003's Everybody's Ugly But Me showed songwriter-ship maturity, but failed in pushing the piano-rock envelope. That distinction would not arrive until 2005's O.S.O.S., in which Pianocidal teamed/befriended former Jendza drummer Lawrence Ricard, a metal/progressive enthusiast. O.S.O.S marked the beginning of a wildly creative piano-rock friendship and collaboration with Ricard, who would also contribute his metal-influenced rhythmic skills to 2007's I Spell Your Name With An F-U, and 2009's The Treatment Is Worse Than the Disease. Pianocidal also spend a considerable amount of time as the key-smith in the band Jendza, with which he recorded End of the World. Pianocidal bears a unique physique that begets questions wherever he travels. Throughout his life he has suffered with malformations of the cervical spine and left scapula, the so-called Klippel- Feil syndrome and Sprengel's deformity, respectively. Despite the pain of his misshapen torso and neck, Pianocidal insists on