A California band that started raw in 1998 and kept evolving through lineup shifts and label changes.
For the early, raw intensity, check out "The Flesh Is A Tomb." If you want to hear their more polished, melodic side, "Nothing Will Ever Change" gives a good sense of it.
They helped define a certain kind of melodic metalcore in the 2000s, especially with songs like "The Flesh Is A Tomb" from their early days. That mix of heavy breakdowns and clean singing became their signature, even as they polished it up on later records. Hearing Travis Barker play drums on "Warrior" in 2007 showed they could pull in unexpected collaborators without losing their core sound.
They formed in Yorba Linda in 1998 and released Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses in 2002. The Curse in 2004 smoothed out some edges, and by 2007 they'd signed with Hollywood Records for Lead Sails Paper Anchor. They kept putting out albums like Long Live and Baptize through the 2010s, weathering some fan criticism about going too commercial.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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