Located in Chico, CA, Equipped for Apocalypse shaped in the past due 2000s across the talents of vocalist/guitarist Kirk Williams, guitarist Cayle Hunter, bassist Corey Vaspra, and drummer Nick Harris. As previous members of rings like Will Haven, Abominable Iron Sloth, and Ghostride, the quartet got plenty of heavy metal encounter to pull from, and their personal mixture of sludge, intense, and melodic loss of life metal didn’t consider very long to resonate with western coastline crowds. The music group released its debut recording, Defeat on Metallic Blade in ’09 2009.