Born in a South Florida garage back in the summer of 2022, Chained Saint’s recently released debut album, Blindside (out via independent label Patriark Records) combines the raw, organic riffery of the best old-school ’80s thrash metal with a dash of modern-day brutality befitting the many challenges confronting the youth of 2024. The past and present collide, resulting in a modern, metallic maelstrom made by a bunch of kids who play with fire in their veins — and their hands! Blindside, produced by William DuVall of Alice In Chains, focuses that fury into a powerfully concise, eight-song LP. The album was recorded and mixed to analog tape with no computers involved whatsoever in the recording sessions. No AI. No studio trickery. No bullshit. Just real riffs made by real players.

The end result is a ferocious set of performances that maintain the essential “tight-but-loose” naturalness of four musicians bashing it out in the same room together — a quality too often lacking in today’s digitally-driven musical landscape.

Chained Saint were one of the most hotly tipped bands of 2024. In just a few short months, Revolver, Guitar World, Loudwire, Metal Injection and Judas Priest legend Rob Halford praised the band for their chops. SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal added the band to their playlist, and their debut single “Animosity” served as the theme song for the WWE 2K24 DLC 4 trailer in September. Liquid Metal followed up by adding another of the band’s songs, “Free Reign” to their playlist in January. The band’s third single, “Stronger Than Stone (Blindside)”, reached the pinnacle of top 5 on both of the published, weekly U.S. METAL Radio airplay charts, accruing over 350x Metal Radio spins in 8 weeks.

The song also received over 100x Mediabase-monitored commercial Active Rock spins in two months, from 28 different commercial Active Rock and Classic Rock radio stations across the U.S., and recorded interviews and features on the KLOS/Los Angeles ‘Whiplash’ program, and the nationally-syndicated LOUDWIRE NIGHTS radio show.

The band has exceeded both 2M streams in just under a year on the DSP’s, appearing on over 49 user playlists and over 2.5M views on YouTube for their official videos.

Chained Saint will also appear at several festivals through the year, including Rocklahoma, Louder Than Life, and VANS Warped Tour. The band received high praise after their recent performance at Welcome to Rockville in May. The band’s first-ever headline tour of the U.S. kicks off June 19th in Orlando, Florida.

Get to know Chained Saint NOW — so you can say you were there from Day One.