Diamond Plate is an American thrash metal band from Worth, Illinois. Diamond Plate formed in 2004 in Chicago, Illinois while all three members were still in high school. Declining record label offers in favor of working on their sound and letting their songwriting evolve, drummer James Nicademus, (former) vocalist/bassist Jon Macak and guitarist Konrad Kupiec, began making serious waves in the underground scene via word-of-mouth, self-released EPs and local slots supporting metal giants Behemoth, Gojira, and Exodus. Two months after graduating high school, the band decided it was time to ink a deal, enter the legendary Earache records.