Biography
Light This City operates as a swift thrash metal unit laced with death metal accents, chiefly distinguished within the style by their rare reliance on a female lead vocalist, the dynamic and impressively leather-lunged Laura Nichol. The ensemble formed in San Francisco in 2002 during the high-school years of several founding participants, with the initial roster featuring Nichol on vocals, guitarists Tyler Gamlen and Steven Shirley, bassist Mike Dias, and drummer Ben Murray. That configuration tracked the band's debut album, The Hero Cycle, yet Gamlen and Shirley had already exited in favor of Brian Forbes and Steve Hoffman by the time Reflections of Ruins issued the record in fall 2003. The revised lineup then secured a contract with the respected metal indie Prosthetic Records, which yielded the second album, 2005's Remains of the Gods. Additional personnel adjustments occurred after its release, as Jon Frost supplanted Dias on bass and Ryan Hansen arrived as rhythm guitarist in place of Hoffman. Light This City's third album, Facing the Thousand, appeared in fall 2006.
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