Wage War

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Wage War

Metalcore band from Florida

Early 2025 in Munich and Chemnitz

Wage War have been shaking up the US metalcore scene with their modern sound since 2015. Their album "Deadweight", released in 2017, took them to number 54 on the Billboard 200 and gave the band their international breakthrough. With over 61 million streams on Spotify, the song "Stitch" is now their most successful track alongside "Low" (47 million streams) and "Manic " (35 million streams); they also celebrated their biggest chart successes with "Manic": number 1 in the US mainstream rock charts and number 7 in the hard rock charts in the USA. At the heart of their hard, often pounding yet catchy metalcore sound, Wage War impress with groovy breakdowns, modern riffs and catchy choruses. After performances at the Download Festival, Rock im Park and Rock am Ring, supporting Disturbed, Papa Roach and their own headline shows, the band from Florida has found its audience. In January 2025, Wage War will be coming to Munich and Chemnitz on their UK & Germany Tour 2025 to celebrate the current album "STIGMA" with their fans in an intimate atmosphere.

Founded in 2010 as Empires in Ocala, Florida, Wage War have long been one of the biggest bands to come out of the small town, alongside A Day To Remember and Underoath. The group first attracted attention with the EP "The Fall Of Kings", which was released in 2011. Since 2013, the line-up around singer Briton Bond, guitarists Seth Blake and Cody Quistad, bassist Chris Gaylord and drummer Stephen Kluesener has remained unchanged. In 2015, "Blueprints" was released as Wage War 's debut album via Fearless Records. Following the release, they toured the USA and Canada in support of August Burns Red, which was followed by a North American tour in support of Chelsea Grin in 2016. Due to the success of their debut album, the band was also confirmed for the Download Festival, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in 2016 and toured the UK supporting The Amity Affliction, which allowed them to gain a foothold in the European market. The album "Deadweight" followed in 2017, which made Wage War widely known in Germany with songs such as "Don't Let Me Fade Away", "Stitch" and "Gravity". In 2019, the third longplayer "Pressure" was released, which has been streamed over 137 million times to date and contains one of the band's biggest hits, "Low". After this release, Wage War enjoyed headliner status in their home country and set the course for their fourth album "Manic", which was released in 2021 and has more than 150 million streams to date. But far removed from the hard metalcore sound, Wage War began to impress with stripped versions of their songs in 2018, which they bundled together on their first complete acoustic album "The Stripped Sessions" in 2022. With the current album "Stigma" (2024), the band opened up further to the pop side of their music. The song "MAGNETIC" with its catchy alternative rock drive is the next big hit from Wage War, who present themselves as modern as never before on their fifth studio album with influences from industrial and electronic music.

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