The Salem, Massachusetts band don’t act like rock stars. They travel in a van with one merch guy and no more instruments than they can reasonably carry with them. But on a musical level, they’re anything but a “regular old hardcore band.” That might have been true back in the ‘90s, with early releases such as Halo in a Haystack or Petitioning the Empty Sky, but they’ve been on a progressive journey since then. Their career since 2001 has seen them building on their early sound to create an intense, sometimes epic and frequently melodic version of metal and hardcore that’s as versatile and diverse as it’s ever sounded.