BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:42db87b9-8f81-49b7-acd7-25c5be356cd9@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T203713Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261102T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20261102T193000 SUMMARY:Knocked Loose & Denzel Curry DESCRIPTION:S&S & POSTFONTAINE PRESENT: As Knocked Loose chipped away at what would become their third album\, they felt the pressure from all si des. Internally\, there was the need to challenge themselves as songwrit ers while retaining the merciless intensity and unflinching honesty that have always been their calling cards — and to also live up to the sizab le expectations that followed in the wake of 2019’s A Different Shade of Blue\, one of the most acclaimed metallic-hardcore albums in recent mem ory. Externally\, there was a whole new set of eyes on the hard-touring Louisville quintet\, following a banner year on the road\, during which they’d brought their underground-seasoned sound to some of the world’s b iggest stages\, finding themselves the unlikely viral darlings of both C oachella and Bonnaroo. The creative process was arduous\, with the band writing close to 40 songs across a span of four years before locking in the 10 tracks that make up new LP You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To . But in the end\, vocalist Bryan Garris\, guitarists Isaac Hale and Nic ko Calderon\, bassist Kevin Otten and drummer Kevin “Pac Sun” Kaine hone d a diverse\, cohesive and savagely aggressive album that both sums up t he massive strides they’ve taken during their decade as a band\, and ass erts their boundless potential going forward. “We worked so hard on it a nd doubted it so much that I think we ended up with the perfect record\, ” Hale says of the LP\, out May 10. “And we didn't know it until it was done. I think that the doubt and the struggle is what made it so special .” The idea of struggle has been central to the band from the start\, fr om the themes of intolerance\, addiction and betrayal that featured on t heir 2016 debut full-length Laugh Tracks through a frank unpacking of gr ief on the 2021 EP A Tear in the Fabric of Life. From opening track “Thi rst\,” You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To follows suit\, plunging th e listener into a cauldron of mental and spiritual anguish. But the albu m’s title contains a note of reassurance amid the turmoil. The phrase or iginates from an experience that Garris\, who suffers from what he calls a “borderline phobia of flying\,” had during a particularly trying flig ht. As he battled his nerves during takeoff\, the vocalist found himself talking to a woman seated next to him. When he confided in her about hi s anxiety\, she said\, “You won’t go before you’re supposed to.” “She di dn’t realize it\,” Garris reflects\, “but she took me out of my fear\, a nd she put my mind in a different place.” Then again\, glossing over neg ative emotions isn’t what Knocked Loose are about. The new songs find th em plumbing new depths of loathing — directed both inward and outward — and tortuous anguish. Raging lead single “Blinding Faith” skillfully wie lds whiplash tempo changes in service of a scathing indictment of religi ous groupthink\, and the hypocrisy that can sometimes accompany an outwa rdly pious life. “It was just hilarious how many people showed up to chu rch that I knew were rude\, horrible\, selfish people\,” Hale reflects o f attending church with his mother in his younger years. “They knew that it made them seem like a better person — or if they said the words\, it would redeem them of any negative quality just because they showed face .” Seething anger also fuels “Don’t Reach for Me\,” a track that combine s the band’s signature frenzied attack with deliberate catchiness and re freshing sonic variety. After one listen\, the song’s refrain — “I dream of a cleansing wave\,” roared out by Garris in his patented piercing\, rueful bark — loops in the listener’s mind like a prime earworm\, settin g the stage for future live shout-alongs. “It took a while to get right because it basically stemmed at first from being like\, ‘OK\, let’s writ e a song with a chorus in it\,’” Hale explains of the track. As catchy a s it is\, it’s also one of the band’s most experimental efforts to date\ , featuring a mid-song left turn into a ghostly funk groove\, complete w ith clean-toned\, reverb-heavy guitar. Lyrically\, Garris says\, the tra ck “may be the meanest song I’ve ever written\,” a seismic takedown of “ someone who tried their hardest to come into my life and mess with two o ut of the three closest people I have.” “Suffocate” also finds Knocked L oose taking on new musical challenges. A major catalyst: pop-meets- meta l trailblazer Poppy\, who reached out to Garris and proposed a team-up. The admiration between the parties was mutual\, and the collaboration in spired the band to venture into uncharted realms for the song\, which fi nds Garris and Poppy trading verses about\, as Garris puts it\, “someone stabbing you in the back.” The track contrasts an oppressive heaviness befitting the title — from chugging half- time to bludgeoning blastbeats and chaotic\, Converge-like fury — with a dance-y\, syncopated groove a nd\, midway through\, the most concussive reggaeton rhythm you’ve ever h eard. “It was so fun because it allowed us to expand the palette a littl e bit and do some weird\, off-the-wall things that we maybe wouldn't do in another song\,” Hale says of the track. “We felt that because we had Poppy’s voice involved\, it allowed us to kind of push the boundaries of what we thought was feasible.” Other boundary-pushing textures pop up t hroughout the record\, from the sample of what sounds like meditative si nging bowls that opens the album to “Take Me Home\,” with its spoken-wor d intro\, ear- catching auxiliary percussion and brief yet evocative con cluding country-song snippet. Elements like these only make the breaknec k blur of a track like “Moss Covers All\,” a song that Garris says deals with his ever-present longing for the comfort of home\, feel that much more urgent. “On this album\, we go the fastest we've ever gone\; we go the scariest we've ever gone. We also go the catchiest and the most melo dic that we've ever gone\, and that's the point\,” Hale says. “Instead o f branching off into a specific direction\, we want to encompass all dir ections.” Emotionally too\, the album stretches far beyond the strident venting the band is known for. On closing track “Sit and Mourn\,” over a hurtling black-metal-esque riff\, Garris howls\, “I will break your fal l I will shield you from disdain I will get us both home I will do whate ver it takes\,” applying his ferocious delivery to a surprisingly tender sentiment. Producer Drew Fulk\, a.k.a. Wzrd Bld\, who first teamed with the band on their Upon Loss singles in 2023\, helped the band bridge it s roots with its growing ambition. His résumé includes years’ worth of w ork with high-profile heavy acts like Bad Wolves and Motionless in White \, as well as credits with prominent hip-hop artists such as Corpse and Kevin Gates. (Motionless in White’s frontman\, Chris “Motionless” Cerull i\, turns up on You Won’t Go’s “Slaughterhouse 2\,” a sequel of sorts to a 2022 Fulk- produced MiW track that featured Garris.) “We’re all hardc ore kids and metal kids\, and we wanted someone who was from that world\ , but also had a background in other things\,” Hale says of the collabor ation with Fulk\, “that knew how to write a hook\, maybe had some dabble s in more popular styles of music.” There’s no ceiling for hardcore in 2 024 — even an outfit as uncompromising as Knocked Loose can turn up in m ainstream-adjacent spaces and win over new fans. But there’s a center to what they do that will never change. “Knocked Loose is always going to be a heavy band\,” Hale asserts. But\, he adds\, growth potential is als o key: “I want to be able to play the festival to 10\,000 people\, and t hen I want to be able to play to 50 in a pizzeria. It needs to come acro ss in both environments. At the same time\, in order to grow\, we all ha ve all these different influences and different highbrow ideas of where we want to take things. The whole thing has been\, how do we add those i nfluences tastefully into what’s still\, in essence\, a hardcore song th at has mosh parts and breakdowns?” Across 10 tracks and 27 gripping minu tes\, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To answers that question time and again. These songs are still hardcore\, still Knocked Loose\, but th ey explore new vistas of emotion\, texture and sonic strategy. Everywher e they’ve been is here on this record\, but so is everywhere they may ye t go.\n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1E0064B48D8E6E48\n\ nhttps://findlocal.community/event/42db87b9-8f81-49b7-acd7-25c5be356cd9 LOCATION:The Union\, 235 N 500 W\, Salt Lake City\, UT 84116 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/42db87b9-8f81-49b7-acd7-25c5be356cd 9 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR