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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 including Oceans, Our Mirage, Watch Out Stampede, Marathonmann and Sperling. 

In February 2022, T&T independently released their single, ‘Kelvin’s Not A Rockstar Yet’, with accompanying music video. Their latest EP ‘Blood on Blood’, released May 2022, also features their latest music video for track ‘My Brother’s Keeper’.

Truth & Tragedy have live events scheduled throughout 2022, including Wacken Foundation’s ‘Rock Das Ding’, Stattbahnhof Schweinfurt’s ‘First Act Night’, and a full EU-Tour with shows across Germany, Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania , Italy and Croatia.

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.