A look back at ENVY’s “Insomniac Doze”: a modern classic in the landscape of post hardcore, celebrating its 17th anniversary today

Seventeen years ago today, the Japanese band Envy unleashed “Insomniac Doze,” a titanic work that sent shockwaves across the hardcore and post-rock community. The album encapsulated the band’s quintessential elements: unyielding emotion, a poetic atmosphere, and genre-defying compositions. It was, in a word, more than anyone could ask for. In tracing the origin of Envy, it’s vital to remember that the band came into existence in 1991, a time when the global musical landscape was in flux. America’s alternative scene was going mainstream, and half a world away in Japan, a group of teenagers founded what was initially an uncompromising