OSM Records

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Member Since: 6/30/2005
Band Website: osmrecords.net
Band Members: HeXeN, A L.A. based metal band that fuses the elements of Melody, Heaviness, Speed, and Technicality within the lair of Thrash.Started out in 2003 when the southern California scene was just a baby, Hexen soon became a key player in the metal re-emergence. Playing club after club, independently releasing EP after EP of newer and constantly evolving material, they stood in the middle of the over-saturation as LA’s prime Melodic Thrash Metal band. Persevering through line-up changes, the band recruited better and better musicians along the way to form their best line-up yet. Now backed by a label; Old School Metal Records, the band will finally showcase a compilation of their best tracks onto the world stage in their debut entitled “State of Insurgency”.Hexen’s influences include a very wide spectrum of sub-genres spanning from Thrash to Extreme/Black. They have also been known to put more thought and imagination into their lyrics than your average thrash band. With subject matter expressing their cynical take on politics and inner struggles, the themes include quite strong social commentaries. While a surplus of LA bands are currently in futile attempts to reanimate the 80’s by cloning styles and riffs of bands at the time, Hexen incorporates all the best aspects of the art to form original music of a new and refined sound essential to their brand of metal, while retaining the hardcore spirit of thrash’s originally loud, rebellious, chaotic premise.The future looks promising for Hexen, finally with the backbone of a label to help them get their music out and tap into the metal world. Already working on what is going to be a ground-breaking follow-up album which is sure to change the history of Los Angeles metal, the sky is the limit for this band. They would like their gratitude to all their friends and family and the fans for believing in them to be known.

CHAOSFEAR, A fast and aggressive style, this is the hallmark of the music of Chaosfear, a band founded by Fernando Boccomino, his brother Eduardo Boccomino and Danilo de Freitas. The band was born in 1999 under name Sick Mind. The next year, a 3-song demo called Sick Mind was released. The wide acceptance of the demo enabled the band to do a lot of shows and plans were made to record an entire album. While composing new songs, bass player Anderson De Franca joined the band and in 2002 they started recording a new demo. Meanwhile a band with the same name was discovered so the band changed their name to Chaosfear.The new demo, "Inside The Extreme World" was ready to be released, but guitar player Eduardo Boccomino left the band pushing the demo release out to 2003.The reaction from the public and from the media couldn’t have been better. The Demo received very positive reviews. In 2005, the band concentrated on writing the first full length album. The band went into the studio in February of 2006 to record "One Step Behind Anger"OSM Records, plans to officially release "One Step Behind Anger" in early Summer Time of 07 with bonus tracks. You can also expect a new album in 2008.

SUICIDAL ANGELS, Suicidal Angels was formed in 2001. They have played many gigs and festivals, all over Greece. The most memorable ones were the ones when they supported the old school thrashers Tankard and the heavy metal legends Anvil. They also have performed three times abroad: in Bucarest (Romania) which was a headlining show, a gig in Malbork (Poland) at the Malbork Metal Days Festival and Thrash ’Till Death Festival (Germany).Currently the band is preparing for their European Tour with Onslaught and Carnal Forge.

LAAZ ROCKIT, formed in 1982, were a mainstay in the Bay Area thrash scene for nine years. In May 2005, the original lineup reunited for the first time since 1991 to play a few shows with TESTAMENT, including the prestigious Dynamo Open Air festival in Holland and Club Ciita in Japan. Their appearance at the Thrash Against Cancer benefit concert in July 2005 was their first U.S. show in over 14 years.

Nerlich was formed in 2003 and hails from Finland. They play old school skull crushing deathmetal. The bands lineup includes Hanna Kauppinen: bass, Davi Moreira: guitar, Miikka Merikallio: guitar, vocals and Teemu Mutka: drums

Kryptos was formed in the winter of 1998 by founding members Ganesh K (Bass/Vocals) and Nolan Lewis (Guitars) with the sole purpose of paying homage to the glorious 80s metal/thrash scene. Over the 7 years that passed since that fateful winter, Kryptos welcomed Akshay Patel (now departed) on guitars and Ryan Colaco (Drums) into the fold and developed into a raging metallic beast of razor sharp melodic riffage and searing thrash madness.

Anger as Art........the brain child of Steve Gaines (of Abbatoir, Bloodlust, Pagan War Machine, Dreams of Damnation and Tactics fame)!The band’s line up also includes William Rustrum (of Hangar 18 and Raven Mad fame), Javier Marrufo (Splotch) on bass and Mars (Demolition, Coffin Texts) on drums. So, behold non believers, Anger as Art is here to show the world that the ultimate american thrash monster has yet to be heard. The Future of Thrash is...very angry!

RUFFIANS..........Founding Members: Craig Behrhorst (Guitar/Background Vocals), Luke Bowman (Drums) and Chris Atchison (Guitar/Background Vocals) Soon after 12/83 the band changed their line-up and recruited long time friend Dan Moura on bass. After placing numerous "vocalist wanted" ads and too many auditions to count, they finally found a singer/front-man in that of Carl Albert. Albert left the band in late 85 and was replaced by Rich Wilde early 1986

JUMALATION..........Is a five-piece, old school thrash metal unit from Helsinki FinlandPedro Anthares - guitar Heiko E. Hate - guitar Taurus - vocals Carlos De Gigolo - bass Esteban Genocidio - drums
Influences: Thrash style bands such as Anthrax, Autopsy, Death Angel, DRI, Exodus, Kreator, Laaz Rockit, Morbid Angel, Nuclear Assault, Sacred Reich, Sadus, Testament....just to name a few................
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Record Label: Old School Metal Records / OSM Records
Type of Label: Indie