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Initially formed as a duo (Aaron and Freddy) in September 2020, Truth & Tragedy independently released their debut EP ‘Thanks For Nothing’ (2020), before releasing their first full-length album ‘Innocence Abandoned’ (2021) through Artillery Music Group of Kingside Records. In 2021, Truth & Tragedy were joined by Kai, Vitali and Domi for their first live shows, where T&T shared a stage with bands such as Oceans, Our Mirage, Watch Out Stampede, Marathonmann and Sperling. 

Truth & Tragedy have had four releases in 2022, including their tongue-in-cheek single "Kelvin's Not A Rockstar Yet', their EP 'Blood on Blood', their instrumental EP 'Voiceless.', and their latest EP 'On the Law of Nature'. 

Amongst numerous festivals and live shows, Truth & Tragedy completed their first EU Tour in September/October 2022, and will be embarking on their first UK Tour in February 2023, with a second EU Tour upcoming in the following April. 

The band’s musical style can be described mainly as a mix of post-hardcore and metalcore, while bringing in stylistic aspects of other alternative genres such as melodic hardcore, punk, pop-punk, and slamcore. Truth & Tragedy named bands like To Kill Achilles, Being As An Ocean and Casey as their musical influences.

Truth & Tragedy use a combination of heavy breakdowns and guitar solos with clean vocals and screams, and their lyrics often deal with issues such as trauma, substance abuse, alienation and suicide, stemming from T&T’s singer’s experiences serving in Afghanistan in the US Army. These themes are prevalent in tracks such as ‘Helmand’, ‘Cope’ and ‘My Brother’s Keeper’. More light-hearted tracks include their pop-punk breakup song ‘Burn the Witch’; their 2022 single ‘Kelvin’s Not A Rockstar Yet’ (T&T’s answer to Weezer’s ‘Beverley Hills’ and Nickelback’s ‘Rockstar’); and ‘Neo’, a tribute to T&T guitarist’s newborn son.

Their latest EP 'On the Law of Nature' (2022) is heavily influenced by metalcore, and is especially prominent in their track "Huntress", which was also released with a music video shot during Truth & Tragedy's EU Tour.