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If your band plays raw, heavy music marked by full-tilt tempos and throat-peeling screams, it can be hard to set yourself apart from more than 40 years of music in that vein. While many of their ultra-fast punk peers stay well within the trails blazed by bands like crossover thrash standard-bearers D.R.I., hardcore punks Infest or grindcore progenitors Napalm Death, Nashvilleâs Thirdface has thoughtfully crafted a sound they can proudly call their own. Abandoning formulaic norms, the Nashville foursome has spent the past several years finding new ways to create music that shows the influence of titans in the genre without regurgitating their work.Â
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Sorry, good ol’ boys, but it’s time to stop laughing at vegans. A plant-based diet is no longer the tree-hugging, granola-crunching butt of the joke. Veganism is a lifestyle embraced by millions lifestyle website WTVOX estimates that there are roughly 78 million vegans worldwide and numbers are on the rise. According to The Vegan Society, “retail sales of plant-based meat grew 31 percent, while total U.S. retail meat sales grew just 5 percent” between 2017 and 2019, and in recent years the “consumption of plant milk increased by 61 percent while consumption of cow’s milk decreased by 22 percent.”