BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:98b67837-6731-4df3-9e7a-3321684e2b25@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T190908Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261121T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261121T200000 SUMMARY:Wage War DESCRIPTION:The right amount of self-applied pressure causes growth. Thro ugh an unwavering dedication to progression\, Wage War sharpen their pat ented hybrid of heavy pit-starting technicality and hummable hypnotic me lodies with each subsequent evolution. Look no further than the aptly ti tled third full-length from the Florida quintet\, Pressure [Fearless Rec ords]. The band—Briton Bond [lead vocals]\, Cody Quistad [rhythm guitar\ , clean vocals]\, Seth Blake [lead guitar]\, Chris Gaylord [bass]\, and Stephen Kluesener [drums]—drove themselves to fully realize their ambiti on by personally pushing harder than ever. “There’s always pressure to m ake a great album\, but we felt it even more so this time around\,” expl ains Cody. “We pushed ourselves to keep this thing moving and growing. T he theme was to be as catchy and as heavy as possible. We knew we had to do something people would notice. Ultimately\, we tried to deliver a be nchmark that says\, ‘This is Wage War. This is what we can do.’ ” A whir lwind four years set the foundation for such a statement. The group’s 20 15 debut\, Blueprints\, yielded multiple fan favorites with “Alive” crac king 12 million Spotify streams and “The River” exceeding 8 million to d ate. Meanwhile\, 2017’s Deadweight established the boys as a rising forc e. Totaling nearly 50 million cumulative streams in two years\, the sing le “Stitch” racked up 14 million streams on Spotify as Deadweight receiv ed widespread praise from MetalInjection\, New Noise\, Metal Hammer\, an d Rock Sound who dubbed it\, “a relentless\, genre-evolving treat. ” Mea nwhile\, they toured alongside everyone from I Prevail and Of Mice & Men to Parkway Drive and A Day To Remember\, logging countless miles on the road. In order to approach their next evolution from a different angle\ , Wage War enlisted the talents of producer Drew Fulk (Motionless in Whi te\, Lil Peep\, IDKHOW) and recorded in Los Angeles for the first time. The locale fostered a spirit of evolution. “We were all out of our comfo rt zone\, which was really cool\,” Cody elaborates. “We couldn’t just go home after the day. We all lived in the same house. It was a great oppo rtunity for us to reconnect. We’d go to shows together\, come back\, and write at 2am. Los Angeles is inspiring\, because there’s a youthful dri ve and passion. Everyone is there to chase a dream. It gives you a minds et. You talk about going to L.A. to make a record when you’re 13. It was a bucket list thing for us.” At the top of 2019\, they teased out the a lbum with “Low.” Right out of the gate\, it leapt past 5 million Spotify streams. Meanwhile\, the first single “Who I Am” targets those people w ho only engage in discussions to spread negativity\, as it teeters betwe en a razor-sharp riff\, guttural screams\, and a sweeping clean refrain\ , “ Don’t forget I’m human. I’ve got the open wounds to prove it. You do n’t get to choose it. You don’t know who I am. ” Meanwhile\, “Take the F ight” hinges on a gnashing guitar fused to an aggressive pitched intonat ion by Briton\, standing out “as something we’ve never done before. ” Co dy adds\, “It’s a call-to-arms. We have dark songs\, but we want to shar e light in the underlying message. It encourages everyone to stop being ignorant and treat each other better.” “Grave” highlights Briton’s clean vocals for an entire track\, another first\, as it dips in and out emot ionally charged verses and into an arena-size gang chant punctuated by c all-and-response. “You come to a point of realizing you need to cut ties with toxic individuals in your life\,” adds Cody. “You’ve repeatedly gi ven them chances\, but they don’t deserve you.” Illuminating the dynamic s of the group\, the airy guitar of “Me Against Myself” underlines the b iggest and boldest refrain of this body of work as closer “Will We Ever Learn” merges heavenly vocalizations with subtle synths and a thudding g roove. In the end\, Pressure elevates Wage War to the next level. “When you listen to the album\, you hopefully get Wage War turned up to ten\,” Cody leaves off. “Lyrically\, everything is from the heart. Maybe\, it gets you through a tough time\, pushes you into another day\, or gives y ou the strength to talk to somebody. There’s nothing better.” BOILER Thr ough an unwavering dedication to progression\, Wage War sharpen their pa tented hybrid of heavy pit-starting technicality and hummable hypnotic m elodies with each subsequent evolution. Look no further than the aptly t itled third full-length from the Florida quintet\, Pressure [Fearless Re cords]. The band—Briton Bond [lead vocals]\, Cody Quistad [rhythm guitar \, clean vocals]\, Seth Blake [lead guitar]\, Chris Gaylord [bass]\, and Stephen Kluesener [drums]—drove themselves to fully realize their ambit ion by pushing harder. A whirlwind four years set the foundation for suc h a statement. The group’s 2015 debut\, Blueprints\, yielded multiple fa n favorites with “Alive” cracking 12 million Spotify streams and “The Ri ver” exceeding 8 million to date. Meanwhile\, 2017’s Deadweight establis hed the boys as a rising force. Totaling nearly 50 million cumulative st reams in two years\, the single “Stitch” racked up 14 million streams on Spotify as Deadweight received widespread praise from MetalInjection\, New Noise\, Metal Hammer\, and Rock Sound who dubbed it\, “a relentless\ , genre-evolving treat. ” Meanwhile\, they toured alongside everyone fro m I Prevail and Of Mice & Men to Parkway Drive and A Day To Remember\, l ogging countless miles on the road. In order to approach their next evol ution from a different angle\, Wage War enlisted the talents of producer Drew Fulk (Motionless in White\, Lil Peep\, IDKHOW)and recorded in Los Angeles for the first time\, delivering a bold body of work.\n\nTickets: https://www.axs.com/events/1473930/wage-war-tickets?skin=fmh\n\nhttps:/ /findlocal.community/event/98b67837-6731-4df3-9e7a-3321684e2b25 LOCATION:Franklin Music Hall\, 421 North 7th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 1 9123 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/98b67837-6731-4df3-9e7a-3321684e2b2 5 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR