The San Francisco Bay Area has produced what is the greatest lineage of heavy metal during the years of the genere’s existence. From 1982-1992, many bands have come and gone and few survived. However, recent times called for the reformation of some of the Bay Area’s finest thrash bands looking to rise up once more and reclaim the throne of heavy music. Such is Stratus’s story.
One of the most unique bands to rise from the second wave of the Bay Area thrash explosion, Stratus’s style was characterized as high-speed precision metal with harmonic sections and melodic singing. Stratus was formed in the 1990 they attacked the local club scene and quickly gained a reputation for their blistering high energy live shows. The musical progress was evident in the complex double harmony sections backed with frantic solos and complex rhythms which created the trappings of an epic album.
Like many bands the momentum that STRATUS created dwindled over the years as life intruded. The trials and tribulations of the world forced the band members to individually focus their attention and energy elsewhere. After several years of the STRATUS juggernaut taking no prisoners, it was finally brought to it’s knees, but quietly waiting... Until NOW! After 12 years STRATUS has returned. Wiser and stronger and with a renewed vitality they have honed their once bludgeoning attack to a finely sharpened edge, ready to KICK ASS!
"There is Still Hope"
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