The Robbery of Murder is another conceptual album from symphonic proggers, Salem Hill. TRoM follows the story of a boy whose life is traumatically changed after seeing his father killed by a drunk driver. Salem Hill's Carl Groves explains, "Sadly, 'The Robbery' was based on the true story of a lady I used to work with. She had lost her husband to a drunk driver. Her young son had also been in the car and watched his dad die. I remember her saying that the hardest part was helping her son cope with the fact that his dad was gone. He'd stand at the window every afternoon asking her 'when is Daddy coming home?' I was struck instantly and wrote the album start to finish in a few weeks, fleshing out the story by what I imagined the boy would do with his life."
TRoM features the trademark vocals one has come to expect from Salem Hill--a band with three lead singers. But the album's strength comes from the emotionally diverse songs which run the gamut from soft, almost whispered longing ("When," "To the Hill") to bombastic rage ("Someday," "Revenge"). David Ragsdale, premier violinist of Kansas fame, guests on the entire album.
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