“You’re always going to have those fans who will live and die by your first record,” says Wage War frontman Briton Bond on the challenges of being a band trying to spread your wings and grow. “They’re resistant to change.” Such is the lot of being a metal band who know they can be something more. Because, while the Florida quintet’s first album, 2015’s Blueprints, is a masterful work of metalcore muscle, it was on recent third album Pressure, released last August, where Briton and his bandmates really proved their might. READ THIS: The 21 best US metalcore albums of all time “We always want to show that we’re a metal band, but now there’s a mix between softer songs and songs full of breakdowns,” Briton says. “Our music is no longer the same kind of stuff – we want it to be m...
