Year Of The Knife’s Year Of Triumph And Tragedy

This past June was shaping up to be a typical month for Delaware metallic hardcore wreckers Year Of The Knife — which is to say it was busy as hell. They’d just returned home from a May weekender in New England supporting the Acacia Strain, which itself came on the heels of a month-long run in Europe with Unearth and Misery Index. Before that, they’d done a few stray headliners and a series of record release shows for Sanguisugabogg’s Homicidal Ecstasy. June began with a sold-out preshow for Detroit’s enormous Tied Down festival, and mid-month, they hit the road with Texas death metal rising stars Creeping Death and Fleshrot. According to setlist.fm data, Year Of The Knife were on pace to shatter their personal record for most shows in a year by July.