Bruised and bloodied, Knocked Loose open up the pit with a brutal sound that falls between hardcore punk and metalcore. The Kentucky-based group issued a pair of EPs before inking a deal with Pure Noise ahead of the release of their first full-length effort, 2016's uncompromising Laugh Tracks. The band continued to hone their beatdown hardcore sound on subsequent efforts like 2019's A Different Shade of Blue and 2024's You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To, both of which broke into the upper reaches of the Billboard charts.
Led by screaming frontman Bryan Garris, the Oldham ...