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HERAKLEION
123 Pleasant Street
123 Pleasant St
Morgantown, WV 26505
Mar 14, 2025
8:00 PM EDT
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Exhorder's US Tour '25 comes to Morgantown, with special guests Herakleion, Void, and Lord Humongous!
8PM
18+
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.
HERAKLEION:
Sworn to the sound and dedicated to the death, Herakleion blends 1980s thrash and death metal with absolute reverence. Taking influence from Voïvod, Pestilence, and Morbid Angel; Herakleion learned from the pioneers, yet sound like none of them. This is no mere tribute to the past. This is the future.
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Heather
March 30th 2025
If you close your eyes, you are taken back to 80’s metal.
They are musicians first and great artists.
Can’t wait to see them in April at Chelsea’s Live.
Jefferson, LA@Southport Hall
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HERAKLEION Biography
Sworn to the sound and dedicated to the death, Herakleion blends 1980s thrash and death metal, with effortless compulsion. Taking influence from Voïvod, Pestilence, Morbid Angel, and many others; Herakleion learned from the pioneers, yet sounds like none of them. This is no mere tribute to the past. This is the future.
With an obsessive dedication to a bygone era, Herakleion set out to make their second record the hard way. “We didn’t want to use any digital or computer assistance at all”, cites drummer, Speed Wilson. “It was important that we did it the way bands used to do it; live and without a click. The record needed to sound like a band, not a collection of perfectly placed blocks”.
To accomplish this, they enlisted producer Pete deBoer (Blood Incantation, Devil Master, Spectral Voice) to oversee an entirely analog production. deBoer tracked the band live at Sonic Ranch Studios like it was 1989. “The goal was to make a recording that sounds closer to what’s in our record collections, than to what records sound like now.”
The result is a record that achieves what Herakleion intended. Necroverse is five tracks of living, seething death-thrash that become the listener’s vessel from the world of mortality into the realm of the dead. It is wholly out-of-step with the current trends in metal, and with the way most metal has been recorded for decades.
Apollo: Guitars & Vocals
Christian: Bass
Speed: Drums
Read MoreWith an obsessive dedication to a bygone era, Herakleion set out to make their second record the hard way. “We didn’t want to use any digital or computer assistance at all”, cites drummer, Speed Wilson. “It was important that we did it the way bands used to do it; live and without a click. The record needed to sound like a band, not a collection of perfectly placed blocks”.
To accomplish this, they enlisted producer Pete deBoer (Blood Incantation, Devil Master, Spectral Voice) to oversee an entirely analog production. deBoer tracked the band live at Sonic Ranch Studios like it was 1989. “The goal was to make a recording that sounds closer to what’s in our record collections, than to what records sound like now.”
The result is a record that achieves what Herakleion intended. Necroverse is five tracks of living, seething death-thrash that become the listener’s vessel from the world of mortality into the realm of the dead. It is wholly out-of-step with the current trends in metal, and with the way most metal has been recorded for decades.
Apollo: Guitars & Vocals
Christian: Bass
Speed: Drums
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Death Metal
Death Thrash
Death Thrash Metal
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