BELOVED CROSSOVER THRASHERS
Power Trip were poised to return the heavy metal crown to their hometown of Dallas, where their forebears Pantera created some of the genre’s most brutal riffs and grooves in the Nineties. But then the unthinkable happened.
Two and a half years to the day after releasing their now-classic 2017 album, Nightmare Logic, vocalist Riley Gale died of an accidental overdose on the eve of a European tour with Lamb of God and Kreator.
When the news broke, guitarist Blake Ibanez, who was responsible for the bruising riffs behind Power Trip’s whiplash hardcore, put down his guitar and didn’t touch it for months. Ibanez had
