Saosin

Influential American post-hardcore band Saosin has released their first new material since 2009 and first ever full-length album with original singer Anthony Green, Along the Shadow.

Saosin’s earliest beginnings packed a full career’s worth of creativity and momentum into one short year, with a scene-defining blend of heady artistic intellectualism and passion. But as history tells it, Green left Saosin after the release of Translating the Name, the 2003 debut EP that set the blueprint for the band’s sound. Saosin went on to release two major label albums with singer Cover Reber, Saosin (Capitol, 2006), and In Search of Solid Ground (Virgin, 2009). Since leaving, Anthony Green has been a part of the band Circa Survive.

But with Green's return in 2014, after performing together for the first time in 10
years, Along the Shadow is an adventurous rush of energy; equal parts confidence and vulnerability. It is the total musical experience of the classic Saosin line up:
vocalist/lyricist Anthony Green, guitarist Beau Burchell, bassist Chris Sorenson, and drummer Alex Rodriguez. Sorenson produced Along the Shadow and Burchell
engineered, with Green’s longtime collaborator Will Yip (Circa Survive, Title Fight,
mewithoutYou) handling vocal production. Along the Shadow is the homecoming of
Green whose instantly recognizable signature vocals and ambitious creative energy fuels an accomplished body of work. It is an album that straddles the line between metalcore angst and melodic experimentalism; a perfect balance of what makes Saosin's music both pretty and brutal.

Every once in a while, wildflowers sprout en masse in the middle of the California desert. Known as a “superbloom,” this phenomenon paints lush colors across a traditionally arid and barren landscape. The emergence and evolution of Silent Planet mirrors this phenomenon.

Since 2009, the California quartet—Garrett Russell (vocals, guitar), Mitchell Stark (guitar), Alex Camarena (drums), and Nick Pocock (bass)—have set themselves apart in the realm of heavy music. Amplifying hypnotic hooks across alternately raw and rich soundscapes steeped in hardcore, post-rock, metal, and ambient textures, the award-winning group has generated tens of millions of streams and earned tastemaker praise.

“When it breaks, what piece am I left with?” ponders frontman Chris Roetter over the rousing, palms-to-the-sky outro of “Kintsugi,” an emotional thunderclap of a song that forms a centerpiece of Like Moths To Flames’ career-defining sixth album, The Cycles Of Trying To Cope.

While the anthemic track’s title pays homage to the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, for Roetter and his bandmates—guitarists Zach Pishney and Cody Cavanaugh, and drummer Roman Garcia—the notion of “kintsugi” carries a deeper meaning: the human experience of finding light in the dark and creating good from pain. In many ways, it reflects the album’s core theme: the cycles of trying to cope.

“The record encapsulates the varying emotions we go through when trying to grow through life,” says Roetter. “Over the last few years, I’ve really tried to harness my emotions as a catalyst to get through whatever I was facing at the time. I think we all have our own unique ways to cope—these are mine. Just being able to write about this stuff and put it out into the world makes it feel like I’m not so alone.”

Segmented into four chapters—LIMBO, FRACTURE, DISSOCIATE, and MELANCHOLIA—The Cycles Of Trying To Cope plays as an intense exploration of the band’s musical arsenal. It straddles the ugly and the beautiful in equal measure, while Roetter’s raw introspection pierces every vicious breakdown and soaring chorus with cathartic force.

Though not originally conceived as a concept album, Roetter’s reflections on the record’s diverse and contrasting elements revealed underlying connections. These threads led him deeper into his internal landscape, drawing comparisons to the terraces of Dante’s Purgatory and ultimately giving shape to the album’s “cycles.”

“A big focal point for Moths has always been writing about things I’m actively going through,” Roetter explains. “But when I realized that each song on the new album covers a unique approach I’ve had to a specific emotion, it felt like we needed something to guide listeners through the record. It helps everything feel cohesive and complete. Sometimes an album can feel like just a collection of songs, but this is more of an experience for the band. I hope people can find some solace in knowing someone else out there is dealing with these things too.”

SAVE US is a transcontinental alternative rock/metal act formed in 2023, blending members from England and California into a sound that swings violently between cinematic melody and uncompromising heaviness.

Recently signed to Solid State/Tooth & Nail Records, the band has quickly gained traction with their breakout singles “BRUISED” and “ZERO,” showcasing a dynamic range that moves from blast-beat chaos to haunting vocal passages and industrial-tinged aggression.

With monthly listeners surging and a debut album in the works for 2026 with producer Landon Tewers, SAVE US—vocalist Miguel Owls, guitarist Chris Biddiscombe, and drummer Benji Havercroft—is already drawing comparisons to Bad Omens, Dayseeker, and The Plot in You as they position themselves as one of heavy music’s most compelling new voices.