GAB RIDE HOME.

• Author: Britschgi, Christian
• Position: MUSIC - Cab Ride Home's vocalist Danica Roem's election to the Virginia Legislature - Brief article

Crash the Gate, an album from Virginia natives Cab Ride Home, features relentless pounding drumlines, heavy riffs, and lyrics dripping with irreverent celebration of all things debaucherous and destructive.

First released in April 2017, it now has more resonance than most thrash metal due to the recent election of the group's vocalist, Danica Roem, to the Virginia Legislature--the first openly trans candidate ever to win public office in the United States.

National media hailed her election as a watershed moment for trans acceptance in America. Rarely mentioned was Roem's role as a metal vocalist par excellence. Metal and trans identity are both forms of self-expression that blur and break traditional categories, whether stifling gender roles or restrictive...