There are few bands in the heavy music sphere that have experienced the rise that thrown have over the last few years. Coming straight outta Stockholm, their brand of short, sharp and savage hardcore has caught the attention of everyone from Fit For A King and Spite to August Burns Red and Wage War . Dishing out razor-sharp riffs with an addictively despondent outlook, they have grown from word of mouth sensations to one of the most celebrated new bands in the scene.

And with their debut album ‘Excessive Guilt’, it feels like they are about to make the next big step towards legendary status. Bold, brazen and bristling with aggression and attitude, it is a blink-and-miss-it shot to the temple that will leave you reeling and ready for more. To find out a bit more about their path to this pivotal point, Rock Sound caught up with vocalist Marcus Lundqvist and guitarist Johan Liljeblad.

.. ROCK SOUND: When you consider what this journey has been like up until now, how does it feel to look back over what you have been able to carve out with the band? MARCUS: “Right from the get-go, this project was definitely ambitious.

When we started it, the goal was always to get out and tour and play as many shows as possible that were as big as possible. We’re definitely feeling proud and more inspired than ever right now. We believed in this from the first songs that we released, but we really couldn’t have asked for more with the great response they got.

It was everything we hoped f.