Listen to New XERXES – “Exit 123”

by Ryan Minic | Aug 20, 2014

Louisville, KY band Xerxes are getting ready to release their new album Collision Blonde this fall. A follow-up to their highly successful debut album Our Home Is a Deathbed, the new record is “a lyrical wreck that’s driven by love, drugs, depression.”

So far you’ve already heard their track “Chestnut Street.” Here’s another new one — it’s called “Exit 123.”

Collision Blonde comes out on October 21st through No Sleep Records.

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