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For Katon, Bill is a "musical wizard and his work on our new album is genius." The cover of "Immortal Legacy" was created by legendary.!

Hirax's Katon W. De Pena is one of the great survivors of the 80's Thrash Metal scene and his band Hirax is producing the music of their lives at the moment.

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For Katon, Bill is a "musical wizard and his work on our new album is genius." The cover of "Immortal Legacy" was created by legendary.

The original lineup was Katon W. De Pena (vocals), Bob Savage (guitar), Gary Monardo (bass), and Brian Keith (drums).

Check out my interview with Katon W. De Pena, lead vocalist and founding member of the mighty Hirax!!

Interview with vocalist Katon W. De Pena
Interview conducted by Luxi Lahtinen
Date online: March 15, 2014

California's Hirax started out in 1984, so 2014 marks the 30th anniversary of this legendary Thrash Metal act.

Hirax's debut album, Raging Violence, was released on Metal Blade Records in 1985 and became a hugely popular record among Thrash Metal fans. The same can be said of their follow-up record, Hate, Fear and Power, released a year later in 1986, also on Metal Blade.

Since then they have unleashed a number of smaller releases (EPs, split LPs, etc.) on top of three more full-length albums, the fifth and latest being Immortal Legacy, put out by long-running German cult label Steamhammer/SPV.

Immortal Legacy does not compromise the old school Thrash Metal but continues to prove that Hirax is one of the most diverse-sounding combos thus far.

Vocalist Katon W. De Pena gives us some insight on this very album as well as Hirax in general, via the following