Hackneyed

The Bavarian bros of Hackneyed range in age from 14 to 18. They're young. Really, really young. But that doesn't stop 'em from offering up an amazingly mature debut in the form of Death Prevails, a breath of furiously fresh air in an age of trite and tired death metal cliches Though their name may suggest otherwise, these young men aren't formula followers. Rather, they’re building upon a tried and true expression of brutality and wowing folks like Hypocrisy and Pain's Peter Tagtgren in the process. "If a band of this young age already sounds this stunning," Tagtgren recently said, "I'm really excited what they’ll sound like in about 2 years!" So are we.