The Saddest Landscape
You Will Not Survive
Panic; 2010
Talk about your negative, ugly connotations – anytime I hear the word “screamo” tossed about as a descriptor for a band’s music, it conjures up images of teenagers shopping for studded belts, eyeliner, and mass-marketed goth-lite paraphernalia at a Hot Topic. Forgive me for such gross generalizations, but as someone who lived through the early ‘00s with the rise of Thursday, The Used, and bands of that ilk, I am familiar with the bands and musical styles that continue to be in vogue on the Vans Warped Tour circuit. So, when I initially read the press release that described The Saddest Landscape as “screamo,” I was quite dubious, but as You Will Not Survive careened into and assailed my sense, my fears were quickly swept aside and promptly replaced with excellent music.
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