It’s been almost a decade since Oxnard, California-based hardcore quintet The Warriors dropped their last album, 2011’s See How You Are. At the same time, the band’s legacy can be heard throughout heavy music today — while the early 2010s were all about by metalcore and beatdown hardcore, The Warriors were incorporating some of the heaviness and bounce of bands like Snapcase and Downset, a tactic now present in the music of contemporary acts like Great American Ghost, Vein, and Code Orange. Now, the band is returning with a new record, Monomyth, which sees them reclaim the style they helped champion in the first place. The band’s new track and video, The Painful Truth, sees them embracing their classic style while at the same time incorporat...
