Welcome to the latest installment of U.S.A.: The Underground Sounds of America, our series that shines a spotlight on the most underrated rock, metal, punk, and hardcore bands in the United States. Each week, we ask one band member to answer five unique questions so you can get to know them better. Because if you aren’t already a fan of the artist featured below…you should be. *** Listening to Half Hearted right now, one can hear a band in the midst of a creative growth spurt. There’s no argument that the band’s 2018 EP How to Be Alone showed off the potential energy behind this Hartford, Connecticut, four-piece with its jagged-edge guitars, soaring vocals, and moments of dreamy progressiveness. But Half Hearted’s newest crop of singles see this sound progressing even further, s...
Misery Made Me
2022 release. Filled with moments of relentless energy throwing back to their punk and hardcore roots to visionary moments of modern heavy, Silverstein's Misery Made Me fastens the group's status as torchbearers of the scene on all fronts. It's both intriguing and inspiring that a band - who could have merely rested on the impressive legacy they've already cemented - would continue to dig deep and find the inspiration to reach people in meaningful new ways. On Misery Made Me - and their 22nd lap around the scene - Silverstein ultimately find themselves spring-boarding off the heights they've reached over the past handful of years. "For the first time in our career, we truly put it all out there. We went into this with no rules and no preconceived notions of what Silverstein is or what it could be. The results are bold. We somehow wrote the heaviest, saddest, catchiest, and most emotional songs in 22 years of being a band... all on the same album," reveals vocalist Shane Told.
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ロックンロールを救う逆襲の復活作! FOB狂想曲が鳴り響き、ボクたちは再びボクたちの歌を取り戻す! ■2007年リリースのアルバム『インフィニティ・オン・ハイ-星月夜』が全米チャート初登場1位を獲得、日本でもオリコン・チャートで初登場11位を記録するなど、全世界の音楽シーンに強烈なインパクトを与え、夏フェスでも大人気だったフォール・アウト・ボーイが3年ぶりに戻ってくる。 ■新曲となる「My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)」は配信開始してすぐに米英のiTunes で2位になるなどそのパワーを見せつけた。 ■すでにサマーソニック2013に出演決定!! ■〝僕たちがまだキッズだった頃、音楽こそが日常をやり過ごしてくれた唯一の存在だったんだ。だからこそ僕たちはフォール・アウト・ボーイというバンドをはじめたんだ。僕たちは解散していたわけではないからこれは再結成ではないんだ。僕たちは原点に立ちかえり自分たちにとって大切である音楽をつくる必要があったんだ。フォール・アウト・ボーイの未来はここに始まる。ロックンロールを救おう…。” -Fall Out Boy 【収録予定曲】 「My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)」他。