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An unlikely but powerful combination of punk fury and prog rock ambition, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are fiery iconoclasts who gradually refined their attack without losing any of their passion.

In the late '90s, their cathartic live shows and propensity to destroy their gear translated to 1999's Madonna, but when they added more control and polish to their music on 2002's landmark major-label debut Source Tags & Codes, they created one of the most epic alternative rock albums of the early 2000s -- a time when epic rock wasn't exactly fashionable.