This Will Destroy You

San Marcos

This Will Destroy You, often abbreviated TWDY, began in San Marcos, Texas with guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Christopher Royal King, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller; Wikipedia dates the band to 2004, though sources give anywhere from 2002 to 2005. Early versions had Galindo singing before the band went instrumental, and the name came from a rejected song title. The first record, Young Mountain, was self-recorded as a demo in 2005 and sold at local shows as a CD-R, and Magic Bullet Records reissued it on June 6, 2006, with a cassette on December 19, 2006 and vinyl on March 13, 2007. A self-titled album followed in January 2008, produced by John Congleton at Pedernales Studios, Willie Nelson's studio; Rock Sound ranked it fifth of the year and Drowned in Sound called it a true classic of its kind.

Field Studies (January 2009, a split with Lymbyc Systym), Moving on the Edges of Things (August 2010) and Tunnel Blanket (2011) preceded Another Language on Suicide Squeeze (September 16, 2014), which reached seven on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. Miller left in November 2008, Brown after the 2008 album, and Dono Jones and Alex Bhore in May 2016, when Robi Gonzalez and Jesse Kees joined. New Others Part One and Two came out in September and October 2018, the score Vespertine in June 2020, and Variations and Rarities in 2020. In 2017 they toured with Deafheaven and Emma Ruth Rundle, and in August 2024 announced that Galindo and King would each tour under the name with separate line-ups. A Young Mountain 10th-anniversary reissue added the unreleased "Sleep", and a twentieth-anniversary tour for the self-titled album was reported in 2026.