Gwazi

Gwazi is a hard rock/metal duo from Cleveland, OH consisting of long-time collaborators and friends Brandon Youngs and John Templeman. The group recorded their first album, 2015’s The Rise and Fall of the Indigo Inn, for fun for the RPM Challenge that year, and they’ve been consistently active ever since. In total, they have released two full-lengths, three EPs and five singles with two of them (“Fun” and “We Are Chaos”) appearing in independent films. Their latest release, 2021’s Enter The Fearless, showed the band moving further into thrash metal territory highlighted by the lead single “Satan Witch”. 

In July 2024, Gwazi released Goatfur via Colossal Force Records, marking their entry into the death metal genre with fresh music, lyrics, and visuals. The album features eleven new tracks, including “Goatfurs Command,” “Rise of the Demon Seed,” and “Existential Crisis,” with a special guest appearance by Danish guitar virtuoso Martin Jepsen Andersen.