About Calm Bomb Collective
Music Is More Than Art
For many of us, music is not a hobby, an industry, or even simply a form of expression.
It is how we process the world.
It is regulation. Communication. Connection. Identity. Community. Therapy. Escape. Protest. Memory. Survival.
Calm Bomb Collective is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit record label and creative community built to support Autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled artists—and to challenge an industry that too often asks people to conform before it is willing to hear them.
Founded by AuDHD producer, artist, and Autism Dad Chris “Krohme” Moore, Calm Bomb Collective grew from a simple belief: talent should never be buried beneath barriers that have nothing to do with talent.
The music industry was not designed with many of us in mind.
Its expectations around networking, communication, touring, sensory environments, finances, promotion, productivity, and even what an artist is “supposed” to look or act like can exclude extraordinary people long before their work ever reaches an audience.
We are here to build something different.
Not a separate corner of the music industry.
A better version of it.
We Make Space for Voices That Deserve to Be Heard
Representation is not meaningful if people are invited into spaces that were never designed for them to succeed.
Calm Bomb Collective works with artists where they are, builds around what they need, and creates opportunities for their work to exist without asking them to erase parts of themselves to participate.
Our releases and collaborations have connected independent and emerging artists with influential voices across music and culture, including Chuck D of Public Enemy, Doug Wimbish of Living Colour, Bizzy Bone, Arrested Development, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Kurupt, OTEP, That Handsome Devil, and many others.
CBC releases have charted internationally across Hip-Hop, Metal, Alternative, Folk, and other genres.
That matters.
Not because charts define artistic worth, but because visibility matters.
Disabled and neurodivergent artists are not niche artists.
They are artists.
Their work belongs on stages, playlists, record shelves, festival bills, radio stations, press pages, and charts alongside everyone else.
We want the next generation of artists to grow up seeing that as normal.
The Music Is Only the Beginning
A record label can release music.
A community has to support the person making it.
That distinction is at the heart of Calm Bomb Collective.
Creative careers do not exist separately from housing, health, transportation, family, mental health, finances, disability support, caregiving, accessibility, or the thousand practical realities that determine whether someone has the time, energy, safety, and resources to keep creating.
That is why our mission reaches beyond recording studios and stages.
We support artists.
We support families.
We support caregivers.
We support the systems around creative people that make long-term participation possible.
And when those systems do not exist, we work to build them.
What We Do
Artist Development & Mentorship
We help artists strengthen their craft without forcing them into a one-size-fits-all creative process.
Workshops, mentorship, and hands-on guidance can include music production, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting, performance, creative development, and navigating the realities of building a sustainable artistic practice.
Whenever possible, that guidance comes from people who understand disability and neurodivergence through lived experience—not simply theory.
Accessible Creative Spaces
Creativity should not require enduring an environment that causes distress just to participate.
We advocate for and create sensory-aware spaces with adaptable workflows, quiet areas, lower-stimulation options, flexible participation, and accommodations that allow artists to focus on the work instead of fighting the room around them.
Access is not an extra.
It is part of the design.
Financial Support & Access
Talent is everywhere. Resources are not.
We work to reduce financial barriers through micro-grants, equipment access, creative opportunities, residencies, partnerships, and other forms of direct support that help artists create, complete, and release their work.
Sometimes the difference between an unfinished idea and a finished record is not motivation.
It is a microphone.
A hard drive.
Studio time.
Transportation.
Childcare.
A few hundred dollars.
Those things matter.
Career Tools, Rights & Education
Artists deserve to understand the business surrounding their work.
We provide resources and education around publishing, copyrights, royalties, distribution, contracts, branding, marketing, promotion, creative ownership, and the systems that determine how music moves through the world.
The goal is not simply to help artists release music.
It is to help them make informed decisions, protect their work, and maintain as much ownership and control as possible.
Inclusive Performances & Experiences
Live music should not require choosing between participation and personal well-being.
We support sensory-aware concerts, showcases, livestreams, events, and alternative performance formats that make space for disabled and neurodivergent artists and audiences.
Accessibility should not make an experience smaller.
It should make the community larger.
Mental Health & Peer Support
Creative people are often expected to turn pain into art while receiving very little support for the person experiencing that pain.
We want to change that.
CBC connects artists with peer support, community, workshops, and mental-health-aligned resources that recognize the emotional realities of creative work, disability, isolation, burnout, rejection, and navigating industries that were not designed for everyone.
No artist should have to destroy themselves to prove they are serious about their art.
Parents, Caregivers & Families
Behind many disabled artists is an entire network of people navigating systems that can be confusing, fragmented, expensive, and exhausting.
Calm Bomb Collective supports parents, caregivers, and families with information, community, education, advocacy tools, and resources that help them nurture creativity while supporting the whole person.
We understand that supporting an artist can also mean supporting the people helping them make it through the day.
Spectrum Navigator
Finding help should not feel like another full-time job.
Spectrum Navigator is Calm Bomb Collective’s technology platform for connecting artists, parents, caregivers, and families with trusted disability, mental health, creative-development, community, service, event, and support resources.
It is designed to make an often fragmented ecosystem easier to navigate—helping people move from “I don’t know where to start” to something useful, relevant, and actionable.
Technology is not the mission.
People are.
Spectrum Navigator is simply one more way we can help connect them to what they need.
Every Release Helps Build Something Larger
Every CBC album, single, physical release, collaboration, donation, and event contributes to a larger ecosystem of support.
Music funds programs.
Artists create visibility.
Visibility challenges stereotypes.
Community reduces isolation.
Resources create opportunity.
Opportunity allows more people to make work.
And the work becomes proof that none of these voices were ever missing.
They were being overlooked.
Our Commitment
Calm Bomb Collective exists because inclusion cannot stop at representation.
We want Autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled artists to have the opportunity to build real creative lives—artistically, professionally, financially, and personally.
We believe accessibility makes culture stronger.
We believe lived experience has value.
We believe artists should not have to become easier to accommodate before someone decides they are worth supporting.
And we believe the people most often pushed to the margins have created some of the most important art the world has ever known.
We are not interested in extracting value from artists.
We are interested in investing in them.
Giving them resources.
Giving them room.
Giving them a platform.
And, when necessary, helping build the stage ourselves.
Chris “Krohme” Moore
Founder
Chris “Krohme” Moore is an American hip-hop and metal producer known for his genre-blending sound and collaborations with artists like Chuck D, Arrested Development, MC Serch, Stetsasonic, Snapcase, OTEP, Earth Crisis, and members of Slipknot, Brand Nubian, Living Colour, Cypress Hill, 311, and Fear Factory. His work has been featured in film, TV, and radio, and he has been a key figure in underground and mainstream music circles for over two decades.
Beyond his production career, Krohme has built a reputation as a champion for independent artists. He founded Godsendant Music in 2005, providing a platform for underground hip-hop with a diverse roster consisting of legends and up-and-coming artists. One of the first underground labels to transition to streaming platforms, it began developing projects specifically benefiting non-profit organizations and social justice advocacy in 2008.
In 2022, Krohme founded Calm Bomb Collective, a nonprofit record label and advocacy group designed to unite the music and disability communities. As an AuDHD music producer and Autism Dad, he created Calm Bomb to support Disabled, Autistic, and Neurodivergent artists, providing mentorship, resources, and opportunities to help them thrive in an industry that often overlooks them.
Through Calm Bomb, he continues to push for inclusivity, accessibility, and creative empowerment in music.
Mike “MikeDC” McTernan
Head of A&R
Mike McTernan is best known as the ferocious voice behind Damnation A.D., the Washington, DC-based band that expertly straddled the line between hardcore and metal. Growing up just minutes from the original Dischord Records house, McTernan was immersed in the region’s punk and hardcore scene from an early age. By 12, McTernan identified as straight edge, seeking to distance himself from the culture of substance use among his peers. His musical journey began in earnest in 1992 when he co-founded Damnation A.D. with guitarist Ken Olden.
The band quickly gained traction, releasing their debut album, No More Dreams of Happy Endings, on Jade Tree Records in 1995 before moving to Revelation Records for their seminal Kingdom of Lost Souls in 1998. McTernan’s raw, unrelenting vocal delivery became a defining characteristic of the band’s sound, earning them a devoted following in the hardcore and metal underground.
After Damnation A.D. disbanded in 1998, McTernan took a hiatus to focus on his mental health before resurfacing in the mid-2000s with When Tigers Fight, a project featuring members of The Promise, Death by Stereo, and Adamantium. The collaboration rekindled his passion for music, leading to a Damnation A.D. reunion in 2007. Whether fronting a pioneering metallic hardcore band or exploring creative projects outside of music, McTernan’s influence endures as a powerful force in the underground music scene.
Marc “Marc 2Ray” Toureille
Advocacy Director/Board of Advisors
Marc 2Ray, who hails from the suburbs of Washington, DC, has a vision of how hip-hop can be used as a tool to educate and empower.
Building off his background in the educational field (working as a therapist for children on the autism spectrum at The Floortime Center), Marc’s music is used in curricula at multiple schools such as St. Petersburg College, Montgomery College, and more.
With Armenian Genocide survivors and Holocaust rescuers as grandparents on either side of his family tree, Marc was inspired to create songs such as “1915,” which led to world-wide renown and live performances in Times Square, outside The White House, and at The March For Justice in front of thousands of supporters in Los Angeles.
Marc has opened for Hip Hop icons such as Inspectah Deck and Cappadonna of The Wu-Tang Clan, Scarface, Large Professor, Ra Digga, and Smif-N-Wesun, among others. With an international fanbase, Marc’s music has been covered by publications such as HuffPost, WUSA9, Thrive Global, and many more, along with multiple TV News segments.
With drive, passion and a devotion to Hip Hop excellence, Marc 2Ray is an artist worth one’s time and investment.
Regina “Mvtha Cvla” Baker
Head of UX Research/Board of Advisors
Mvtha Cvla (pron. Mother Color), born Regina Baker, artist, producer, and creative healer is a mother of two Neurodivergent boys, creator of Mvtha’s Kitchen, a singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and photographer, amongst many other things.
Regina started creating music at the age of 4, developing sounds on the drums in her mother’s church. Over the years, Mvtha Cvla has dreamed of leaving an impact on the world with her art, no matter what medium. She is classically trained in multiple instruments like clarinet, violin and saxophone.
At age 18 she built her first home studio and has continued that practice as well as working in local studios for independent artists in the NW FL area. She has shared the stage, captured studio visuals, shot music videos, branded, mentored and created with some of the industry’s top talent for music and film.
She’s worked with producers, songwriters, engineers, A&R, and musicians of well-known names including Beyonce, Kevin Gates, etc. She’s shared the stage as an opening act for artists like Cody Chestnut, SILAS, and Kendra Foster.
Gregory “Juba” Johnson, Jr.
Board of Advisors
As a journalist and writer under the byline Gregory Johnson, Juba has written, consulted and edited for magazines such as LEVEL, Ebony, Vibe, King, Mass Appeal, Spin, Complex, XXL, Giant, GOOD, Blaze, New Musical Express, etc., as well as in published books like Black Food, Hip-Hop Divas, Beats Rhymes and Life, Manifest XO, Hip-Hop Immortals and other titles. His October 2002 Murder Inc. cover story for The Source Magazine led to the second-highest sales for any issue in The Source’s venerable history.
Sara Moore
Board of Advisors
Sara Moore serves as an Advisor on the Board of Directors for Calm Bomb Collective. As the mother and wife of autistic individuals, Sara brings a vital lived perspective and a deep commitment to the mission.
For more than two decades, Sara, an Army veteran, has contributed to national conversations and storytelling at the highest levels, including reporting alongside U.S. Presidents, Vice Presidents, and top military officials in locations such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Tajikistan, and Germany. She has organized large-scale community relations events, managed a newspaper, and produced a talk show.
Sara’s work has been recognized with top awards within the federal government, and her writing has reached audiences across major websites, TV channels, and publications. Her commitment to inclusive advocacy and her award-winning record make her an invaluable voice on the Calm Bomb Collective board.