Founded in Southern California by frontman and ex-Terror guitarist Todd Jones, bassist John Gianelli, and drummer Taylor Young, NAILS released their debut EP, Obscene Humanity, in 2009, followed by the full-length Unsilent Death in 2010. Both releases gained wider distribution through a Southern Lord reissue. A second proper album, the hyper-intense and ultra-compact Abandon All Life arrived on the label in 2013, and three years later, the band unleashed their third long-player, You Will Never Be One of Us, this time via Nuclear Blast. A split 7" with Full of Hell arrived later that year, and in 2019 the group released the fiery one-off single "I Don't Want to Know You." Gianelli and Young left the fold the following year, leaving Jones as the group's sole member. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi