Irvine-based rock band Thrice closed out their nationwide tour with a banger of a hometown show at the House of Blues Anaheim.

The show, the second of two, was supported by Downward and Modern Color, which warmed the crowd with post-hardcore angst and emo-shoegaze.

Thrice’s tour was in support of their 12th album, “Horizons/West,” a follow-up to 2021’s “Horizons/East,” also released via Los Angeles-based Epitaph Records. For a band like Thrice, formed in 1998 by drummer Riley Breckenridge, his bassist brother, Ed Breckenridge, and longtime friends vocalist-guitarist Dustin Kensrue and lead guitarist Teppei Teranishi, there were plenty of hits to make a hometown show truly feel like home.

To kick off the set, the group opened with the one-two punch from the new album, “Blackout” and

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