A few days ago, the Vans Warped Tour officially opened up their annual poll, crowdsourcing the bands that fans want to see on the 2018 edition of the summer festival. While it’s certain that thousands of submissions will be sent in, we’re issuing our own submissions of the bands we’d like to see, with our…
Compared to even a decade ago, musicians really have to watch what they say publicly on the Internet. Your band probably isn’t selling that much in the way of albums, and any statement that is potentially controversial can potentially spread across social media in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Screenshots have no half-life,…
We’ve mentioned it plenty of times here, but most of the bands playing an atmospheric bent of post-hardcore/metalcore today have Hopesfall to thank for pioneering that sound. Their groundbreaking album The Satellite Years, released on October 15th, 2002, still hasn’t aged a bit. It’s a work of art that expertly ebbs and flows between quiet…
Starting out as a somewhat under the radar post-hardcore band in California, Thrice have slowly grown to become one of the most exciting rock bands of recent memory. It was really on 2002’s sophomore record The Illusion Of Safety that the band started to make a name for themselves in the melodic hardcore scene –…
