Hackneyed

Potentially the youngest death steel band ever sold to get a recording agreement, with associates averaging between 14 and 16 years, Germany’s Hackneyed formed in 2007 and simply by the following calendar year were currently releasing their debut album, Loss of life Prevails, through Nuclear Blast. Made up of vocalist Philipp Mazal, guitarists Felix Papp and Devin Cox, bassist Alex “iX” Büttner, and drummer Tim Cox (who, despite their British noms de guerre are actually German), Hackneyed perform an severe brand of loss of life metal motivated by rings like Cannibal Corpse and Decapitated, with periodic detours into from grindcore to synth-backed atmospheric materials.