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About Me

Under the Blade formed out of the dissolution of several underground bands - most notably the old school black metal band Crimson Reign, melodic death metal band Everything is Plundered, and rock band Fairly Decent.

The shortly after forming... the trio, then consisting of vocalist Joe Hurless, drummer Derek Rostock, and guitarist Grant Drake, recruited guitar player Jesse Drennen and bassist/vocalist Nick Weeks to complete the line-up. Shortly thereafter, the group - heavily influenced by both Bay-area thrash and Gothenburg style melodic death metal - produced what would be their first recordings and began gigging with more frequency.

Under the Blade is currently available for shows and is working on material for their debut full length album tenatively entitled "The Word".

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Music:

Member Since: 25/09/2007
Band Members: Joe
Hurless
Lead Vocals

Grant
Drake
Lead / Rhythm Guitar

Jesse
Drennen
Rhythm / Lead Guitar

Nick
Weeks
Bass / Vocals

Derek
Rostock
Drums

Influences:Dark Tranquility,
Lamb of God,
Katatonia,
Metallica,
Borknagar,
Inflames,
Pantera,
Darkthrone,
Killswitch Engage,
Necrophagist,
The Black Dahlia Murder,
System of a Down,
Between the Buried and Me,

Bands We Have Played With:

OURSELVES,
Heibarger,
Postmortem Twitch,
Torched Souls,
P36,
Postal Worker,
Anal Blast (MN),
Fall of Enosis (OR),
Sleeve of Wizard,
Ripshaw,
Portrait of the Assassin,
The Decay of Creation,
Here's to Chaos,
A King's Burial,
Wake Up Dead

Sounds Like: Highly rhythmic and melodic speed metal - a strong blend of new American metal and death / black metal.

GEAR

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Upcoming Shows - 01/24 Venue, 01/26 Liquid

Under the Blade will be playing Saturday, Jan 24th at the Venue on Broad St, and Monday, Jan 26th at Liquid (BoDo). We need votes for these Battles of the Bands, so come show us some support. Ro...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:48:00 GMT

The Demo

Word, Well, we spent 19 hours in the studio this last weekend with Speck (Speck Studios) and finally hammered out two of our songs - Multiple Car Pileup and Conning the Molech. They are up on th...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:32:00 GMT