A Day To Remember’s For Those Who Have Heart in both an exercise in fun, as well as a harbinger of things to come. While it wasn’t until Homesick in 2009 that the band’s career really took off, the Ocala natives’ brand of pop-punk and metalcore was in full effect here, especially on the opening…
Of all the prominent metalcore bands to come out of the mid-2000s explosion of said genre, Atreyu was (and still is) one of the best loved. Though most fans swear by The Curse and A Deathgrip On Yesterday, it can be argued that 2007’s Lead Sails Paper Anchor contains just as much of the band’s…
Though the band never quite achieved the mainstream success of their peers (Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold), the band was extremely influential in multiple depths of the metal/hardcore pool. Motionless In White? Their band name wouldn’t exist. Asking Alexandria, Escape The Fate, and basically any band that combined singing with the ferocious screaming you’d expect from metalcore?…
Ohio metal band Affiance holds a special place in this writer’s heart. Before TNF ever existed, I got my start on a little site called Introduce Yourself Magazine (and before that, IMS Zine). This was 5 years ago this month that I covered my first tour for the site, a tour which also featured Serianna,…
