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Warbringer

“We’re not walking on eggshells, as far as the riffs we write. In our heads, we don’t go, ‘It’s gotta be thrash!’ Whatever sounds good to us now, we’re willing to put out”
— Adam Carroll

Becker and Adam Carroll break out the full artillery on the California quintet’s latest album, (Napalm Records). Take “The Black Hand Reaches Out,” a toxic waltz confidently unloading rounds of precision judding before each player rips into their respectively squealing solo.

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