Strung Out are a long-running California band whose sound over the years has traversed skate punk, metal, and melodic hardcore. Debuting with a mixture of punk speed and metal guitar power, they were mainstays of the punk circuit for decades, playing hardcore anthems with anti-authority attitude on '90s efforts like their debut Another Day in Paradise and 1996's Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues. At the turn of the millennium, Strung Out began evolving with the more melodic approach heard on 1998's Twisted by Design and 2002's An American Paradox, the latter was their first to ...