MINDRAZER

Combining the anthemic melodies of Traditional and Power Metal, the precise, aggressive attack of Thrash, and twists of dark intensity borrowed from Second-Wave Black Metal, Mindrazer play a style as familiar as it is fresh.  Since 2017, the New Jersey quartet have straddled the boundaries between the different sides of Metal music. Despite their relative newness to the scene, the band has already taken on everything from punkish romps to soaring, conceptual epics, from metallic ballads to the upper limits of extremity within the clean-vocal Thrash format, all while retaining a distinct and coherent sound.

The story of Mindrazer begins years before their official formation, when a high school marching band’s rendition of Tool served as the catalyst for the meeting of Nick DeFuria (Rhythm Guitar/Lead Vocals) and Brian Weissman (Drums/Percussion).  Though the two experimented with different ideas for a metal band, things truly got off the ground in their college years, when they met Vin “Hawky” Verducci (Bass), and formed a Thrash trio that would become Mindrazer.

Though the trio had potential, and could finally begin to gig, it would take some time to iron out the kinks of their sound, and transform from amateur imitators of metal giants to instant classics in their own right. Over the course of their college years, they would tighten their chops, expand their songwriting palette, refine their showmanship, experiment with a couple different lead guitarists, and develop a new image, with a new name to boot.  By the point of their graduation, The band took the name Mindrazer, titled after a monster inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and tabletop RPGs, but with unique lore developed by the band.  Khøwyrd, the band’s abominable yet whimsical mascot, perfectly encapsulates the spirit the band has cultivated.  Frontman Nick’s soaring, operatic vocals tackle the horrors of history, society, and the human imagination - at once in all seriousness, and all in good fun, as only a great metal band can.

With their most recent addition, that of the infinitely charismatic shredder, Mo Uddin, Mindrazer have reached a new level of mastery, grounded in traditional thrash but never bound to it; stretching it’s limits with graceful yet fierce dual-tremolo, crushing breakdowns, and prog-inspired, sweeping leads. His arrival came just in time to refine the band’s upcoming debut “A Thing of Nightmares” to the level of a mad science. With their sound sharpened and polished to all the cold, hard, vicious elegance of a steel razor to the brain, Mindrazer are back with a vengeance, and no mind is safe.