Diamond plate
| Diamond plate | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 2004 |
| Website | http://www.diamondplateband.com/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Jon Macak | |
| Konrad Kupiec | |
Electric guitar |
Mario Cianci (since 2011) |
| Jim Nicademus | |
Diamond Plate is an American thrash metal band from Worth , Illinois .
The band was founded in 2004 by Jon Macak, Konrad Kupiec and Jim Nicademus and their published debut - EP Mountains of Madness , four years later than the average age of the band members was just 15 years. This recording was also used in the same year as part of a split EP with the Swedish thrash metal band Oppression, which appeared on Stormspell Records. The British music magazine Terrorizer listed Diamond Plate at number five on a list of the best non- record bands in 2008.
In 2009 the band released a second EP called Relativity on their own. Shortly thereafter she played at the Thrasho De Mayo festival in Los Angeles and the Chicago Powerfest and was contacted in the summer of 2010 by Digby Pearson, the founder of the British record label Earache Records , who offered the band a recording contract. This was signed a few months later and at the beginning of 2011, Mario Cianci, a second guitarist, was added to the band. On August 9, 2011, the debut album Generation Why? in the US producer was Neil Kernon .
The band played as the opening act for Behemoth , Gojira , Exodus , Dirty Rotten Imbeciles , Overkill and Destruction , among others .
Discography
- 2008: Mountains of Madness ( EP , self-published)
- 2008: Thrash Clash, Volume 2 ( Split- EP with Oppression, Stormspell Records)
- 2009: Relativity (EP, self-published)
- 2011: Generation Why? ( Earache Records )
- 2013: Pulse (Earache Records)
Web links
- Official website
- Diamond Plate at Allmusic (English)