It's Sound And Fury lineup day, baby! The great festival, dedicated to hardcore and to stuff that isn't hardcore but works in the same circles, returns to LA's Exposition Park Aug. 15-16. I've never been, but it's the festival that I really, really want to get there one year. Maybe this will be the year. The full Sound And Fury lineup isn't out yet, but a good chunk of it is, and the big news is that this year's festival will feature Rival Mob and Carry On reunions.
In the '00s and '10s, Boston's Rival Mob developed a rep as fundamentalist moshpit party-starters. They only released one album, 2013's Mob Justice, and a handful of demos and EPs, but they were better known for causing chaos live than for their records. The Rival Mob played their last show at FYA in 2016, and now they're back on the Sound And Fury lineup. Meanwhile, metallic LA straight-edgers Carry On released their sole album A Life Less Plagued way back in 2001, and they broke up in 2005. Todd Jones went on to become the guy in Nails, and Ryan George went on to become the guy in Youth Code. Carry On played a surprise one-song partial reunion during God's Hate's set at last year's Sound And Fury, and now they're on the bill for real.
The Sound And Fury lineup also includes legends from the worlds of death metal (Obituary), emo (Saves The Day, Oakwood), and straight-up metallic hardcore (Merauder), But the best reason to go to Sound And Fury is to see some of the best hardcore bands currently active. A whole lot of them are on this bill, and many of them represent wildly different takes on the genre: Angel Du$t, Incendiary, Warthog, XWeaponX, Koyo, Final Resting Place, No Cure, Start Today, Sin Against Sin, Clique, Guilt Trip, Discontent. If you're going, you'll also get to hear screamo (Holder, Knumears, Train Breaks Down), oi (Home Front, Beton Armé), and sleazy dance-pop (Nuovo Testamento, Sextile).
The rest of the bill will be unveiled in April, and weekend passes are on sale now.
