Throes Of Sanity

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Throes of Sanity is a progressive metal band located in Seattle, Washington. Throes of Sanity’s music has been played and the band has been interviewed on Seattle’s largest local rock radio station KISW’s Metal Shop. Throes of Sanity has also been written about and given positive reviews by the underground metal community throughout the world in numerous published web based articles such as NME.com, Progressive World.net, Last.fm, Forgotten-Scroll, Rapid4me.com, and Metal Melts the Ice to name a few. Throes of Sanity is currently scheduled to play the “Swordbrothers Festival IX” in Andernach, Germany on September 11, 2010. The origins of the band began in the early 1980s when lead guitarist, Erik Peterson, bassist Phil Tsai, and drummer, Jeff Winston began playing progressive metal instrumental songs (influenced by old Black Sabbath, Rush and Iron Maiden) while attending secondary school in Tacoma, Washington. The essence of the band was created when Erik, Phil and Jeff met guitarist, Marc Wallace, who was attending college at the University of Washington. Mark was an especially creative song writer and an exceptional lead guitarist. All members of the band had the same love for progressive power metal along the lines of Queensryche, Rush, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater and Black Sabbath. However, the existing band members knew they needed a powerful and melodic lead vocalist to pull it together. That role was more than realized when the band met singer Scott King. Scott had

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