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It’s June 28, 2013 and things could not be going better for While She Sleeps. The metalcore upstarts are in Las Vegas, opening stages all over America as part of the prestigious Warped Tour. Not even a year ago they released their debut album ‘This is the Six’, an animal that made them darlings in their genre’s thriving UK scene, alongside bands such as Architects and Bring Me the Horizon. Tours with Parkway Drive, Crossfaith and Asking Alexandria in the last few months alone have jam-packed their schedule.
Just under a year later,
Full Collapse landed on the
Billboard 200 (peaking at No. 178) and Thursday had become undeniably one of the biggest influences on the rising emo scene that would soon take over the rock world. Their commercial success was just beginning, with “Understanding in a Car Crash” continuing to grow in popularity both within and beyond the Warped Tour crowd while major record labels fought for Thursday’s next album (2003’s
War All the Time).
A post-hardcore band formed in New Brunswick in 1997, Thursday was always destined to walk the line between the two scenes, similarly to their Long Island counterparts in Glassjaw and the Movielife. Even on their debut album (1999’s
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Everybody Loves Our Town places L7 right in the thick of the action but they aren’t often mentioned in accounts of the period that focus endlessly on the same half-dozen bands. If L7 still elude the attention of media commentators (and listeners) who view music through a
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Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 debut album
Tell All Your Friends unleashed a bevy of emo anthems like “Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team),” “Timberwolves At New Jersey,” and “You’re So Last Summer.” For many fans, these unforgettable songs will forever be associated with AIM away messages, summers at Warped Tour, and automatic music players on Myspace. These tracks can still be heard at any given club’s “emo night,” with crowds screaming out the deeply catchy choruses. But it wasn’t until the release of Taking Back Sunday’s third LP,
, that the band got its big radio hit with “MakeDamnSure.” “When that came out, it was the start of when things really picked up and kind of took off for us,” lead singer Adam Lazzara told