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In recent years, Polyphia have established themselves as virtuosic disruptors of everything the music world thought it knew about genre classifications. Over the course of their first three albums, the Texas-based shredders have brought metal, trap, rock, funk, and a slew of other influences together to spectacular effect.

And now, having recently added nuevo flamenco to their list of stylistic conquests on – the band’s first new song since 2019 and their first ever to feature nylon-string guitars – Polyphia’s Tim Henson has

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