Metal is our life’s passion and a way to relieve hatred and boredom in our everyday lives. We live in Tomball, TX, which is outside of Houston. All of us go to the same public high called Klein Oak High School and we formed this band in October 2007. Our music is a mixture composed of blackened death and melodic metal. Our first gig was at a benefit at Varras sports bar in Houston. Right now, we are focusing on writing new material. We’re hoping to do more shows after we get our new material written. For now, we mainly play parties in and around the city. Barn parties are pretty big out here, in the countryside, and we’ve played a bunch of those too. But just because it’s a barn doesn’t mean it’s a bunch of rednecks. They’re like, huge-ass parties in the fields with hundreds of people, from all the high schools around our area. It’s basically a place where people go to party and get together, and it’s a place for bands to play. The parties are away from houses and stuff so it’s good for being as loud as we want.

There are a lot of different people listening to metal in our school, but it’s still a minority within the music scene. There are a couple of big metal bands that came from our high school though like Outworld, whose guitarist Rusty Cooley is one of the best guitarists in the world, according to us. Glass Intrepid also went to our high school, and they play a lot of progressive rock. Our city has got a badass metal scene though. In the city
of Houston, a lot of people think metal is great and there are so many different sub-genres of metal that there is enough of it for everybody to partake. After we’re done with school we’d like to be able to get our band out
there and do tours and get out to Europe even. Mainly we just want to say what we have to say to the world,
but with our music. Metal is a way of life for us.

Dominic (Dom) Andrade (guitar, vocals)

Bexton Carlisle (bass)

James (JD) Gray (drums)

Photography by Chris Munoz