Hirax
Hirax (often stylized as HIRAX) is an American thrash metal band from Cypress, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena (the band's only original member left in the current line-up), the band played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with several of their thrash metal peers such as Metallica, Exodus, and Slayer. The band was an early example of thrash metal, speed metal and crossover thrash, yet inspired by cross-genre influences including blues vocalist Sam Cooke, who De Pena once cited as "the greatest vocalist [De Pena] has ever heard."
Genre: speed-metal, thrash-metal, crossover-thrash
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Top Tracks
- Mouth Sewn Shut
- Jade
- Broken Neck
- Walk With Death
- Barrage of Noise
- Murder One
- Hostile Territory
- French Pearl
- Beyond the Church (Part One)
- Black Smoke
- Assassins of War
- Invasion
- City of the Dead
- Summon the Death Dealers
- Lucifer's Infierno
- La Bocca de La Bestia (The Mouth of the Beast)
- Hellion Rising
- Hidden Track
- Bloodbath
- Destroy
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