With Blood Comes Cleansing, Vanna, Across Five Aprils, The Banner, Burden Of A Day, This Very Day

Across Five Aprils
Hailing from Chattanooga, TN, where Steve Taylor (vocals), Zak Towe (guitar/vocals), Jarrod Smith (guitar), Jason Barry (bass), and Drew Miller (drums) began playing together in September 2001, screamo band Across Five Aprils peddled their MP3s online and toured locally before recording...

The Banner
Your Murder Mixtape, the Banner's 2003 full-length for Blackout, opened with a song called "Zombie Onslaught." That should give you an idea of what the quartet's particular take on metalcore sounds like -- guts and ghouls and screaming death, delivered over jagged hardcore...

Burden of a Day
Sarasota, FL's Burden of a Day was formed in 2004 and, perhaps a little precociously, released a debut album, Pilots and Paper Planes, less than two years later through independent Blood & Ink, in the process, earning very mixed reviews for their middling, screamocore style with...

Vanna
Taking influence from bands like As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean, and Every Time I Die, Boston metalcore outfit Vanna was barely together a year before signing with Epitaph Records in fall 2005.

With Blood Comes Cleansing
Auburn, AL, Christian death metal outfit With Blood Comes Cleansing feature the talents of vocalist Dean Atkinson , bass player Dennis Frazier , drummer Matt Fidler, and guitarists Jeremy Sims and Scott Erickson.

This Very Day