Wage War

The Florida quintet Wage War featuring Briton Bond (lead vocals), Cody Quistad (rhythm guitar & vocals), Seth Blake (lead guitar), Chris Gaylord (bass), and Stephen Kluesener (drums), released their fourth full-length offering "Manic" on Fearless/Concord on October 1st. Musically, the band has struck a seamless balance between rocking grooves, soaring melodies and battering ram riffs, all into one cohesive statement. They have confronted everything from personal struggles to trolls and two-faced friends. After amassing nearly 300 million streams and receiving widespread acclaim from Billboard, Loudwire, and Alternative Press, the band is ready to reach new rock heights on their latest album. 

“"Manic' encompasses everything we’ve gone through as musicians in the last year-and-a-half,” said Kluesener. “The whole industry halted, and we technically lost our jobs. Our scene was among the first to leave and the last to come back. The album captures the whole period. That’s how I’d describe 'Manic'.” “Mania is a wild emotion,” said Quistad. “The last year was all severe highs and lows. We had some victories, but we’ve also had so many low points. We’ve built this thing for the last ten years and put all of our chips into it. We’ve missed birthdays and funerals, but we’ve done some extraordinary things. Last year, we found ourselves wondering if it would ever come back. That’s really what the album is about.”

Wage War has built a diehard audience with the releases "Blueprints" (2015) and "Deadweight" (2017) and through incessant touring. 2019’s "Pressure" featured the singles “Low” (24.9 million Spotify streams), “Who I Am” at 10.7 million Spotify streams and “Me Against Myself” at 8.4 million Spotify streams. The "Pressure" album showed up on Loudwire’s “50 Best Metal Albums of 2019" and Alternative Press raved, “Wage War is unapologetically changing the game on all fronts on ‘Pressure’.”

With their new LP and recent single "Circle The Drain" creating a nice buzz at Rock Radio, Wage War is now ready for the next chapter.

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