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About Khaotika, Wormreich, the heavy metal bands involved in fatal I-85 crash

Authorities were on the scene of a multiple fatality, multiple injury crash on southbound I-85 early Monday. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
Authorities were on the scene of a multiple fatality, multiple injury crash on southbound I-85 early Monday. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM
April 6, 2015
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Khaotika

  • The Atlanta-based band's Facebook page describes their sound as "melodic occult metal"
  • Formed in January 2014
  • Vocalist Lariyah Daniels (aka Lariyah Hayes on Khaotika's Facebook page) is a former member of Chicago-based metal band Hessler and is originally from Poland
  • Guitarist Sergio Quesada grew up in Mexico
  • The band's debut EP, "Bloodline Empire," was released in 2014.

Wormreich

  • The band is listed in various spots as hailing from Owensboro, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama.
  • Wormreich formed in 2009 and released its full-length debut album, "Edictvm DCLXVI," in 2011
  • In 2014, the band released an EP and had plans for a new full-length release sometime in 2015
  • Sunday's show in Spartanburg, S.C., was the third date of a a short tour called the Reich ov Khaos (the first two dates were in Chicago and St. Louis).
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