Metal Church is an American
heavy metal band. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 and then relocated to Aberdeen, Washington the following year and briefly using the name
Shrapnel. Led by guitarist and songwriter
Kurdt Vanderhoof, the band has released twelve studio albums, and is often credited as a formative influence on the
thrash metal subgenre, melding the aesthetics of the new wave of British heavy metal and American
hard rock with "incredibly tight musicianship" and "piercingly screeched" vocals. They are also considered to be an in…
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