Music like miRthkon

miRthkon is an Oakland, California based avant rock group founded by guitarist/vocalist/composer Wally Scharold. In addition to several album releases, they have also had songs featured in the video games Guitar Hero Van Halen ("QXP-13 Space Modulator") and Tap Tap Revenge ("Banana" was the Tap Tap Thursday Track on June 24, 2010).

While studying composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Scharold self-published several CDs under the miRthkon name. These early releases weren't produced as albums but more as archival compilations of a variety of Scharold's compositions and improvisations, including several early, less developed versions of songs in the current band's repertoire. These performances featured one-off bands made up of Scharold's fellow students including trumpeter Peter Evans and drummer Brian Chase of the Art Punk band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Upon completing his degree, Scharold moved to Oakland to attend Mills College for his Master of Arts in Music Composition, where he studied with Fred Frith and Alvin Curran, graduating in 2003. There he met other musicians to form a band and perform his older miRthkon compositions, as well as collaborate on new ones.