Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors is an American Heavy Metal band formed in 1980 in Santa Rosa, California. Guitarist and composer Thorpe began his musical career as a teenager in Honolulu, Hawaii. He had decided to start forming the band in the San Francisco Bay Area during the summer of 1979. Other Bay Area-based bands like Exodus, Anvil Chorus, Metallica and Death Angel were also making their debuts around that time. These bands played the same local venues and established the Bay Area thrash metal scene, which within a few years would become very popular all over the world.