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Jim Ortiz – guitars, vocals Gian Ortiz – bass, backing vocals Chris Ortiz – drums, percussion The Ortiz brothers—a.k.a. Amplified Heat—are passing the phone around, making sure everybody gets their two cents in this official biography that announces the band and their Arclight Records debut, In for Sin. It’s bassist Gian’s turn, and as his guitar-spanking bro Jim hands him the phone, he says, “You’re up, bitch. Go for it!” It’s brotherly banter, common sibling shit-talk—and the essence of Amplified Heat. The Colombian-American brothers have been playing music together as long as they can remember. Like brothers do, they bicker, and as much as they’re bound together; their relationship and music are intense, combustible—Amplified Heat. “We have a chemistry,” says drummer Chris, “that only the three of us can understand.” It is, however, something everyone can enjoy. AMPH’s roots are in Houston, and reach back to the brothers’ school days (1988, when thrash metal’s popularity was cre...