Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders west coast hip-hop Brianna Hildebrand

Brianna Hildebrand

Emerging in the early '90s

what the wise call "an instant classic"

this '80s Italian gut-muncher is infamous for it's eye-popping gore

Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders west coast hip-hop Brianna HildebrandWhen Tosin Abasi released his self titled debut solo album under the moniker Animals as Leaders in 2009, few would have predicted the band's meteoric rise over the following years. Although Abasi earned acclaim as the lead guitarist in the Washington, D. C. based metalcore act Reflux, it was still a long shot that an instrumental album of progressive metal with jazz, electronic and ambient flourishes would develop anything more than a cult following.