Thrice

Thrice began with Dustin Kensrue and Teppei Teranishi, who knew each other from high school in Irvine, California. Teranishi recruited his skate-park friend Eddie Breckenridge to play bass, and Eddie brought in his brother Riley on drums, giving the band its four-piece lineup in 1998.

The early records leaned on melodic hardcore punk built from heavily distorted guitars and frequent shifts in time signature, a style laid out on second album The Illusion of Safety in 2002 before The Artist in the Ambulance brought the band a wider audience the following year.

From Vheissu onward the band moved steadily away from that template, taking in post-rock, electronics and blues. The four-part Alchemy Index EPs organised this experimentation around the elemental themes of fire, water, air and earth, and the albums Beggars and Major/Minor that followed refined those explorations further.

Thrice announced a final tour and went on hiatus in 2012, reforming in 2015 after Kensrue and Teranishi attended a Brand New concert together. Their first post-reunion album, To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere, arrived in 2016.

The band has kept releasing music with the same four-piece lineup that started it all, including Palms in 2018 and Horizons/East in 2021. Each album has had a portion of its sales proceeds donated to a different charitable organisation.