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Vanquished Kingdom is a 4-piece band from Sydney Australia with various inspirations, but none stronger than the joyous power-driven energy and dark didactic depth of the 1980’s best heavy metal music and lyrics. Apart from being a brutal-sounding, two-words-with-two-syllables each name (like “Iron Maiden”) Vanquished Kingdom also sums up the band’s music thematically. Many of their songs centre around the brokenness of the world across generations. - - - - - - - - - - Formed in 2015 as a hard rock trio (singer/guitar, bass and drums), there were already a number of notable nuances to the band. They were made up of a front-man, his wife and his cousin. They were all Sydney Conservatorium-trained (on different instruments!). They gave themselves the far-too-close-to-a-cover-band name of, "Ironic Maiden." After a year and a half of gigging and recording an EP, in October 2016, James Hetfield found his Kirk Hammett - a second guitarist - as Vanquished Kingdom was born. They continued