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America’s Guitar Virtuoso Toby Knapp returns with his unique brand of Shredding Black Thrash Metal with Waxen’s highly anticipated 7th album!
Signing with world-renowned guitar god label Shrapnel Records in 1992 at the unheard of age of 19, Toby Knapp continues to have a productive & prolific career in rock and heavy metal.
Recording albums with 20+ of his own bands including Onward, Toby Knapp, Waxen, Where Evil Follows, Necrytis, Affliktor & Darken, Mr. Knapp is also a full time guitar teacher. A session studio and live musician for many world class national artists including Attila Csihar (Mayhem), Godless Rising, Fetid Zombie, Abhor & more, Toby Knapp has solidified his position as an all-around world-wide guitar Hero, Virtuoso and International Legend!
Waxen delivers skillfully played blackened thrash metal with strong true metal leanings and the undercurrent of black metal, drenched in Toby Knapp’s trademark neo-classical shred-mastery!
Waxen’s debut album “Fumaroth” was released in 2006. Joining the Moribund Family in 2014 Waxen swiftly released a tetrarchy of internationally acclaimed black / thrash metal albums with “Agios Holokauston” (2014), “Weihung Auf Satan" (2016),"Terror Decree” (2018) , “Blasphemer in Celestial Courts” (2019) and "Die Macht Von Hassen" (2023). These albums redefined technical black / thrash metal and credit Knapp with the invention an entirely new sub-genre “Shred-Black Metal”!
Waxen’s 7th album, “High Plaines Bloodlust” see’s Toby Knapp bringing a much more melodic approach to their normal rough and raw Black Thrash Metal sound. The album is loaded with traditional thrash metal riffing that transforms into black metal shredding, then oscillates towards a neo-classical heavy metal solo or segments of brutal death metal tremolo. Toby Knapp’s innovative and eclectic style and talent for writing real songs surpasses and sets him apart from all other shredders, and catipults Waxen to the forefront of the US Black Thrash Metal scene!
Worship the Shredding Guitar Wizardry!
PRESS:
"Old school metal elements carried by the vile black metal thematic blend so well. Bang your heads to this one." ~Metal-temple
“Perfect for riding a spike-armored stallion into that endless infernal war.” ~Decibel Magazine
“Steps over a bunch of your favorite albums to the very front of your attention! Shocking. Crank it up!” ~Metalsucks.net
“Knapp’s fretboard wizardry seeming horizonless, replete with classic NWOBHM touches, but more inherently evil. Another solid volley from its well-stocked armory!” ~http://rebelx.org/
“A unique album of its kind, where Knapp manages with class and personality to combine two styles that are only apparently polar opposites.” ~www.metalhead.it
“A standout album for fans of sophisticated, technical metal. An impressive album that demonstrates the versatility and virtuosity of Toby Knapp as a guitarist and songwriter.” ~amplified-mag.de
KEY SALES POINTS:
* Highly anticipated 7th album from the internationally renowned US guitar legend!!!
* Leading band of World renowned axe-shredder, teacher & session musician Toby Knapp (Onward, Toby Knapp band)!!!
* Composed, performed, mixed and produced by the guitar genius Toby Knapp himself!
* Graphic design by The Old Goat (Xasthur, WOTBM, Vardan, I Shalt Become).
* Hot on the heels of Knapp’s revival of Prior Century Media band ONWARD’s new masterpiece "Of Epoch and Inferno"!
* Shredding Black Thrash Metal with excellent melody, total ripping Solo’s and superb song writing.
* Mandatory for fans of Destruction, Slayer, Bewitcher, Dissection, Immortal & Yngwie Malmsteen!!!
Track Listing:
1. Battle of One Hundred Slain (4:43)
2. A Horse Named Fear (6:52)
3. Hadamar (4:03)
4. Black Nitrite (4:49)
5. Red Clouds Over Kill Zones (5:27)
6. High Plaines Bloodlust (5:58)
