Wage War: EMERGENCY BROADCAST TOUR | We Came As Romans, Varials, Cane Hill

The right amount of self-applied pressure causes growth. Through an unwavering dedication to progression, Wage War sharpen their patented hybrid of heavy pit-starting technicality and hummable hypnotic melodies with each subsequent evolution. Look no further than the aptly titled third full-length from the Florida quintet, Pressure [Fearless Records]. 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 ambition by personally pushing harder than ever. "There's always pressure to make a great album, but we felt it even more so this time around," explains Cody. "We pushed ourselves to keep this thing moving and growing. The 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 benchmark that says, 'This is Wage War. This is what we can do.' " A whirlwind four years set the foundation for such a statement. The group's 2015 debut, Blueprints , yielded multiple fan favorites with "Alive" cracking 12 million Spotify streams and "The River" exceeding 8 million to date. Meanwhile, 2017's Deadweight established the boys as a rising force. Totaling nearly 50 million cumulative streams in two years, the single "Stitch" racked up 14 million streams on Spotify as Deadweight received widespread praise from MetalInjection , New Noise , Metal Hammer , an