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CROSSOVER THRASH: These riffs are so addicting! Richmond, Virginia crossover thrash metal band Enforced has released its second full-length album
Kill Grid. The brutal quintet featuring bassist Ethan Gensurowsky, drummer Alex Bishop, vocalist Knox Colby, and guitarists Will Wagstaff and Zach Monahan has created nine pummeling thrash attacks that explode like a heatseeking missile upon imminent impact. With an extreme amalgam of thrash, punk, death metal, and hardcore, Enforced walks a similar path as Power Trip, Plague Years, Iron Age, and the like.
Formed in 2016 out of the ashes of various hardcore and punk bands, Enforced rapidly became a live fixture within the Richmond local scene by sharing stages with the likes of Sacred Reich, Red Death, and fellow brethren Iron Reagan. Catching the attention of Century Media with its 2019 debut album
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Kill Grid, out on March 12th, 2021.
Mixed with an incredible cross-section of extremes-from thrash and punk to death metal and hardcore-the emergent outfit are gearing up to drop a nine-song cluster-bomb of thrashing death on apathetic times.
Kill Grid came together over a two-year period while
ENFORCED were marauding halls and dive bars across the East Coast and Canada. Indeed, inspiration came from different directions, but playing live with bands like
SACRED REICH, RED DEATH, IRON REAGAN, ALL OUT WAR, and
INTEGRITY shaped what was to come out of the Richmond natives. While it was the previous output that attracted the attention of Century Media, it s