Exhorder

Exhorder is an influential thrash-and-groove metal band led by vocalist Kyle Thomas. Amid a tumultuous history, the band's sonic trademark -- chugging, tightly constucted, syncopated guitar riffs framing detailed yet rigid compositional structures -- offered a blueprint for underground metal's "Louisiana sound" in the 1980s and they have turned it into a brand in the 21st century. Formed in New Orleans in 1985, Exhorder's idiosyncratic yet extremely attractive brand of thrash and groove metal made a regional impression on the local scene. Slaughter in the Vatican, their 1990...