Never quite a musician, never quite an artist, Mr. Kerosene has always treated one like the other. What makes music interesting is the unknown places it goes, and the stories it tells from the people that make it. Sure, Mr. Kerosene had timid beginnings… listening to the Space Jam soundtrack like any other 90’s kid, but from the moment he heard Chris
Cornell’s voice (circa Superunknown, 1994), his life would never be the same.

Music became a science where Soundgarden led to Stone Temple Pilots that led to Garbage that led to David Bowie that led to Adam and the Ants, and suddenly a full canvas of absurd rejects showed the power of the microphone. Mr. Kerosene began singing in bands when he was 15, and
since then has been featured on Live105, 107.7 The Bone and KSJS 90.5, and has opened for Alice in Chains’ William DuVall. "It doesn’t matter if it’s a stadium or a backdoor barnyard, just give them something they haven’t heard."

- Mr. Kerosene.

Ruben Beltran Started playing Guitar in 1993, at 10 years old, during the Peak of the grunge movement. He fell in love with the songwriting of Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, which served as the catalyst for learning to play guitar, via their songbooks. He taught himself, with the help of tab books, and guitar magazines from the local drugstore, that he would memorize, then run home to quickly figure out on the guitar. A friend of his step dad gave him his first guitar, which was actually found in a heap at the junk yard. Ruben had humble beginnings, so his family didn’t have the means of buying him a guitar, to this day, it’s still in his possession.

He later challenged himself with studying the works of Kirk Hammett, Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani. Towards the end of the 90’s, the music of the time period began to change, and He began to open himself to the sounds of Radiohead, and Bjork. The use of orchestration, harmonies, Electronic elements, and Ambient Effects. This, along with The melodic guitars, and interwoven synths of Amir Derakh, and Ryan Shucks work in the bands, Orgy, Julienne K, and Dead By Sunrise were pivotal in him finding his sound, the New wave kissed Delay tones, with the rich retro synths, and Crunching guitars.

He credits artists like Juan Gabriel, Chris Martin, John Frusciante, Stevie Wonder, and Tegan and Sara for shaping him as a song writer, and lyricist, and furthering the development of what is his sound. This sound was the foundation of the 5 studio albums Ruben put out over the last decade, starting with Skyway Views debut album, 2009’s “Vanity Unveil Me”, 2012’s “Under the Digital sky”, however, once aligned with Joseph Medina after a line up change, the sound took on another essence, as we saw in 2014’s “The Good and The Beautiful “, and even more so with the addition of Mr. Kerosene on vocals starting on 2015’s “The Victoria Trap”. After some soul searching, the group launched a rebranding of the project into Frantic Romantic, as the sound had evolved into something that needed a fresh launching point, that is embodied by their debut album “Celestina “.