Upon a Burning Body

Upon a Burning Body formed in San Antonio, TX in 2005 and released the Genocide EP that same year. They spent the next few years amassing a loyal following with extensive regional touring, and in 2010 they released their full-length debut album The World Is Ours. The record peaked at No. 28 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, introducing the band to a national audience and drawing them out on a coast to coast tour. They followed up in 2012 with their sophomore album Red. White. Green., a critically acclaimed release that topped the Heatseekers chart and landed at No. 11 on the Hard Rock chart. The band’s rise continued in 2014 when their third album The World Is My Enemy Now cracked the Top 40 of the Billboard 200 — a huge feat for a deathcore metal band. An electrifying live act known for their aggressive shows, Upon a Burning Body continues to blow minds on their must-see tours.

With their face-melting hardcore sound, Traitors have quickly soared in popularity with a dedicated and rapidly expanding fanbase. A deathcore/heavy metal band, Traitors emphasize intensity and rage in their music. Traitors features the talents of vocalist Tyler Shelton, bassist Dave Moore, guitarists Mikey Ingram and Alan de la Torre, and drummer Stephen Arango. Traitors commenced their 2022 New World Order Tour in October 2022 following the release of their single, “Nu World Order,” which was the third piece of music the band released since their 2019 album Repent. The New World Order Tour followed their 2022 Menace II Society Tour, which was their first tour since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Traitors’ previous tours also include the 2019 Eternal Nightmare Tour, 2018 Violent Society Tour, 2017 Farewell Tour, 2016 Night Terrors Tour, and 2015 Hate Campaign Tour. Their live performances are not to be missed, featuring Shelton’s low-ranging vocals and the fast hands of drummer Arango. Reviews online emphasize their live performance veracity, with one attendee stating, “The heaviest show I have ever seen. Absolutely incredible.”

The group premiered onto the scene in 2014 with their eponymous EP. Their first album, The Hate Campaign, debuted in 2015 and was followed by Mental State (2016), Anger Issues (2018), and Repent (2019).

If time is a flat circle, then 2 things are true: 1) Deathcore’s return was inevitable. 2) Andrew Baena, Johnny Ciardullo, Cooper Lagace and Travis Regnier were destined to form another band.

The quartet killed off predecessor Galactic Pegasus’ djenty metalcore as their writing trended deadlier. So intense was Carcosa’s devotion to death that the body was still warm when they started.

Their June 2020 unveiling and release of the ‘Absent’ EP 2 months later took them from disregard of to mastery over death.

Carcosa stare into the abyss—knowing everything happens in cycles but with the nihilistic knowledge everything ends. Their name, as well as the black, yellow and spiral-laden imagery, were inspired by ‘True Detective.’

One could argue their lyrics and sound came from the hopeless mind of Rust Cohle. The music borders on apocalyptic but accepts the bleak end as the twin of the hopeful beginning. It’s the kind of doom-and-gloom through which The Acacia Strain and Chelsea Grin channeled their brutality, tempered with the futuristic noises of contemporaries like Brand of Sacrifice.

The lyrics on debut LP ‘Anthology’ don’t follow the tragic journey of their debut, but the collection renews its endless loop construction. The new release drops on the year anniversary of its predecessor (8/19) and the final track seamlessly segues to the opening of both.

Though done intentionally for ‘Absent,’ on ‘Anthology’ it happened without conscious thought; time is a flat circle, indeed.

The sound, the look, the atmosphere, the lore. Swollen Teeth are as much a ritual as a performance, summoning primal ferocity in clouds of intrigue with a thundering rumble. Each musical outburst arrives shrouded in mystery, enveloped by a sense of dread, with passion and purpose. Heavy percussion, riffs, punk gang chants, dive bombs, turntables, breakdowns, shrieks, guttural screams, and powerfully unashamed anthemic melodies coalesce in Swollen Teeth. The collective absorbs the raw intensity of the most potent subculture and spits it back with a determined uniqueness. They’ve spent countless hours in the lab, lobbing out occasional missives online like Molotov cocktails. Each of the scattered, chopped up, and explosive clips unleashed to the world, culled from a handful of shadowy live appearances, built anticipation for the group’s inevitable ascension. Sid Wilson, Ghostemane, and Ross Robinson (Slipknot, Korn, At The Drive- In) are already onboard. Alternately unpredictable, calculated, premeditated, and spontaneous, Swollen Teeth are a whirlwind of invention. They travel in our dimension but are not of it. This is otherworldly chaos without apology.