The list of bands who’ve shared tour posters and laminates with Winds Of Plague does itself speak volumes of the band’s diversity and ultimate accessibility, cloaked as it may be in an ambitious sound of infamy and extremity: Danzig, As I Lay Dying, Hatebreed, Parkway Drive, Dimmu Borgir, We Came As Romans, Attila, All Shall Perish, Chelsea Grin.
As one of the elite breakout bands in the heavy music scene of the past decade, WINDS OF PLAGUE carry forward the torch reignited by the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal, made up of bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying and All That Remains that preceded them (their band name, in fact, was inspired by an Unearth lyric). WINDS OF PLAGUE subverts the formula of each strain of metal that came before them, picking apart the strongest elements of the genre, only to superpower them all over again.
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