Back in 2021, and with a buzz already growing in the underground scene, a young metal crew named Vended unleashed their debut EP to a mix of excitement from the metal scene and suspicion from social media commenters. Having spent a few years locked in a rehearsal room fine-tuning their metal onslaught, they performed a sold-out debut show in their home of Des Moines, Iowa and, within months, were quickly being heralded as one of the bands to lead the charge of new metal bands into the new decade. Unsurprisingly, there were the doubters who argued that, given family connections to masked metal superstars Slipknot, Vended would get the kind of openings that most bands would have to work for years to get. Brushing off the claims, Vended hit the road, spent three years honing their devastating...