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Mar 19, 2022 · Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH have canceled two shows on their North American tour with SEPULTURA after frontman Phil Rind was hospitalized with a non-COVID-19-related illness. The trek, which ...
Jan 11, 2021 · SACRED REICH frontman Phil Rind has blasted the scores of Donald Trump supporters who swarmed the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday during a violent insurrection, leaving five people dead and forcing ...
Aug 14, 2021 · SACRED REICH frontman Phil Rind has reflected on the passing of the group's former guitarist Jason Rainey, saying he and his bandmates "saw it coming for a long time." Rainey died in March 2020 of ...
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"Don't Do It Donnie" was never really in the running for "Awakening" — in part because, as Rind says, it's so topical, "it kind of dates the record" and, in part, because it didn't really fit stylistically. Its thrashy hardcore punk vibe seemed a perfect fit for that split single Iron Reagan had suggested, though. "The universe was pushing for it,"...
Rind joined Sacred Reich in 1985, taking over on bass for Mike "Lurch" Andre. At the time, they had a singer named Dan Kelly. But as Rind recalls, when it came time to make a demo, Kelly, who was old enough to have his own apartment, didn't want to pony up his share. "He's like, 'I don't have any money to do that,' because he had bills to pay and w...
What happened to Sacred Reich is that they ended up recording three more albums — "The American Way," "Independent" and "Heal" — before packing it in at the turn of the century. When they got back together after six years on hiatus in 2006, it was with all four members of the classic '80s lineup — Rind, Arnett, Rainey and Hall. And it stayed that w...
Rind's lyrics always have been socially charged and thought-provoking. As Hit Parader responded to their Metal Blade debut, "Intelligence and metal are two things not normally associated with each other, but in the case of Sacred Reich, they blend to form a powerful musical message." There are no shortage of songs taking stock of our current politi...
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Aug 29, 2019 · He first knocked Rind‘s socks off with introducing the interview with phrases combining the band’s songs album titles and later engaged in a clever talk touching upon the album recording process, the dynamics of the music business nowadays, and even the existence of a certain Surf Nicaragua vintage t-shirt. As usual listen to their talk ...
Oct 7, 2019 · Now, the band has dished out Awakening, their first album since 1996 and singer Phil Rind, as a guest on Full Metal Jackie's weekend radio program, explained how the record came into existence.
INTERVIEW: Phil Rind – Sacred Reich. Formed in 1985, in Phoenix, Arizona, Sacred Reich are credited with being leaders of the second wave of thrash metal in the 80’s, alongside Testament, Death Angel and Dark Angel. With their socially conscious and political brand of speed metal, Sacred Reich released a brutal run of albums on Metal Blade ...
