Origin:	Los Angeles, CA, USA
Genres:	Thrash Metal

Hexen

Southern California is simply teeming with young retro thrash bands these days (see Fueled By Fire, Bonded By Blood, Warbringer, et. al.), and Hexen is one such band. They self-released an album, Heal A Million ... Kill A Million in 2005, then essentially re-recorded most of that album and added some new tracks for what they seem to be calling their proper debut, State Of Insurgency, released on the young Old School Metal label and featuring instantly recognizeable cover art from the infamous Ed Repka. As with the aforementioned bands, progress and innovation take a back street to bashing out 80's thrash riffs, and Hexen do it as well as anyone, with arguably a slight nod toward modern thrash rather than exclusively reliving 1985. Time will tell whether bands like this have what it takes in the long term, but for now Hexen delivers exactly what one would expect.