A band that built a sound on resilience, blending rock with electronic and hip-hop touches.
If you want the big, fist-pumping side, put on "Believer". For something a little more stripped back, try "Bad Liar".
They landed with a debut album in 2012 that felt like a new kind of radio rock, and they've kept that anthemic quality even as they've stretched into different sounds. A song like "Believer" became a stadium shout-along, but you can hear them dial it back on something like "Bad Liar" from a later album. Their music often circles themes of pushing through, which connects to Dan Reynolds talking openly about his own mental health.
They started in 2008 when Dan Reynolds met guitarist Wayne Sermon at Brigham Young University in Utah, adding the rest of the lineup soon after. After "Night Visions" in 2012, they put out albums every few years, from "Smoke + Mirrors" to "Evolve" and "Origins", each mixing pop, electronic, and hip-hop elements into their rock base.
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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