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Thrice was conceived as an Alternative-Rock Punk-Pop band in August 1998
by bass player Eddie Breckenridge and drummer Riley Breckenridge; the
two brothers teamed up with high-school friends vocalist+guitarist Dustin
Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi in their native Irvine, California
USA.
After putting out a self-released EP, "First Impressions",
plus the full-length album "Identity Crisis" in the summer of
2000, they inked a deal with Sub City Records who re-issued their debut
full-length disc in March of 2001; the quartet spent the remainder of
the year on the road touring with Midtown.
The group's second album, "The Illusion Of Safety", was released
in February 2002, it broke into the top 20 of the Billboard's Independent
chart, setting the stage for their breakthrough LP.
Four months later Thrice were picked-up by Island Records; after that
they performed a handful of live shows with Face To Face and Coheed
And Cambria as well as stints on The Warped Tour.
Their third album, "The Artist In The Ambulance", was finally
released in August of 2003, the Island set peaked at #16 on The Billboard
Top 200 chart led by the single "All That's Left", which reached
the #24 spot on The Modern Rock list; the follow-up single, "Stare
At The Sun", was another alt-Rock radio top 40 hit for Thrice.
In October 2005, the band released their fourth studio album, "Vheissu",
which peaked at #15 on The Billboard 200 chart producing the Mainstream
Rock top 30 hit "Image Of The Invisible".
Thrice next project is "The Alchemy Index", a 4-volume collection
spread between two releases comprised of four EPs, each devoted to one
of the classical elements in nature: fire, water, air and earth. For the
California rockers, it's the realization of a year-long process of writing
and recording, which was done primarily in the band's own studio and engineered
by guitarist Teppei Teranishi, without the assistance of an outside producer.
"The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II" was released in October
2007 on Vagrant Records, it debuted at #1 on the U.S. Top Independent
Albums chart and reached #24 on The Billboard 200. Vols. III air &
IV earth, followed in April 2008.
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