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Origin | Oldham County, Kentucky, U.S. |
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Years active | 2013–present |
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Website | knockedloosehc |
Knocked Loose is an American hardcore punk band from Oldham County, Kentucky, formed in 2013 and currently signed to Pure Noise Records. [1] The band released its debut studio album, Laugh Tracks , in September 2016 through Pure Noise Records, which was followed by A Different Shade of Blue in 2019. Their 2021 EP ATear in the Fabric of Life incorporated elements of death metal and was released to widespread critical acclaim. [2] [3] They released their third album, You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To , in 2024.
Knocked Loose was formed in June 2013 under the band name Manipulator by vocalist Bryan Garris, guitarist Isaac Hale, bassist Kevin Otten and drummer Dylan Isaacs. Except for Isaacs, the members had already played in the band Speaker together, with Jared Barron on drums. [4] Shortly after announcing their debut show for July 26, they were contacted by a different band with the name Manipulator and decided to change their name to "Knocked Loose". [5] The band's first song, titled "Manipulator", was released on YouTube and Bandcamp on August 27. On October 24, Little Heart Records announced that they had signed Knocked Loose and the band released their next song, titled "The Have Nots", that same month on YouTube and Bandcamp. The song was met with some criticism online for the use of the slur faggot, which resulted in the YouTube video being re-uploaded one day after release with the slur bleeped out. In November 2013, Knocked Loose filmed their first music video to accompany the song. Both songs were released once more in October 2014 as 2013 Demo's, [6] but have since been removed from all platforms along with their YouTube videos and the music video for "The Have Nots".
Their debut EP is titled Pop Culture and was released in 2014 on Little Heart Records. [7] Knocked Loose also contributed the song "SS" to the Little Heart Records sampler I Would Have Waited an Eternity for This, which was released on that year's Warped Tour. The band spent most of their early years touring excessively through the United States. In 2015, they released a split with Damaged Goods on No Luck Records (and digitally via Little Heart). [8]
In the Spring of 2016, Knocked Loose supported Counterparts on their headlining tour. Gideon & Expire also joined up as support. [9] The band then embarked on a Summer tour supporting The Acacia Strain on their 2016 Common Vision Tour. Oceano, Culture Killer and To the Wind also joined up on the tour. [10] Then in the fall, the band supported Stick to Your Guns on their Better Ash than Dust tour. Stray from the Path and Expire joined up on the lineup as support.
In 2016, the band announced their first studio album, titled Laugh Tracks, would be released by Pure Noise Records, who they had signed to earlier that year. [11] [12] The album was released on September 16, 2016. [13] [14] [15] On August 9, 2016, Knocked Loose premiered a new song off their upcoming album titled "Oblivions Peak." [16] On May 31, 2017, the band released a music video for two combined songs from Laugh Tracks, "Billy No Mates / Counting Worms", with the video beginning with Billy No Mates and instantaneously moving into Counting Worms. [17]
On June 6, 2017, Knocked Loose were announced to be supporting Every Time I Die along with Hollow Earth for a late 2017 tour of the United States, spanning September and October. [18] A month later, in July 2017, the band announced a November UK tour, also supporting Every Time I Die but instead playing alongside Canadian hardcore band Comeback Kid for a select few dates. [19] In the summer of 2017, Knocked Loose played every date of the Vans Warped Tour on the Full Sail stage alongside bands such as Trophy Eyes, Boston Manor, and Movements. Knocked Loose opened up for Eighteen Visions for two shows in December 2017 with Old Wounds and Tourniquet. [20] In late 2017, the band announced their first US headlining tour for early 2018 with support from hardcore bands Terror and Jesus Piece, and label-mates Stone. However, before the tour, after members of Stone were accused of sexual assault allegations, Knocked Loose dropped them from the tour and replaced them with Year of the Knife.
Most of the dates of their first headliner were sold out which allowed them to open for Parkway Drive and for Thy Art Is Murder on their European tours and also to play a few dates on the main stage of the last Warped Tour. In the fall of 2018, Knocked Loose opened up for Beartooth on their Disease tour with Sylar. [21] Knocked Loose then embarked on a headliner in the Spring of 2019. The Acacia Strain, Harm's Way, Sanction and Higher Power all joined up as support. [22] Knocked Loose then supported A Day to Remember in the Summer of 2019 with Boston Manor. [23] Knocked Loose's next record, A Different Shade of Blue , was released on August 23, 2019. [24] In support of the new record, the band embarked on a massive USA headliner throughout the fall of 2019. Stick to Your Guns, Rotting Out, Candy and SeeYouSpaceCowboy all joined up on the tour as support. [25]
Knocked Loose went on a late Summer headliner with Gatecreeper, Magnitude and Kharma. [26] The band then opened up for Gojira on their Fall 2021 tour with Alien Weaponry. [27] In October 2021, the band, without any prior notice, [28] released their EP A Tear In The Fabric Of Life. The concept record documents the "story of someone wading through ‘extreme grief'". [29] An animated short film, which accompanies the entire span of the EP, was released at the same time. It was directed by Swedish director Magnus Jonsson. [30] The release, as well as the short film, gained mostly positive reviews. Its song "God Knows" was elected by Loudwire as the 30th best metal song of 2021. [31]
On June 14, 2023, the band surprise released Upon Loss Singles, a double-single consisting of the tracks "Deep in the Willow" and "Everything is Quiet Now", with the tracks being produced by new collaborator Drew Fulk (also known as WZRD BLD). [32] The band announced a new album entitled You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To , which was released on May 10 via Pure Noise Records. [33] [34] To coincide with the album announcement, the band released its lead single "Blinding Faith". [35] [36] The second single, "Don't Reach For Me" was released on April 3, 2024. [37] The third single, "Suffocate" featuring Poppy, was released on April 23, 2024. [33] [34]
Knocked Loose has been described as metalcore, [35] [38] [39] [40] [41] hardcore punk, [41] [42] [43] and beatdown hardcore. [44] New Noise, when reviewing their debut album Laugh Tracks , described the band's sound as being akin to "Comeback Kid at their heaviest with some added doses of Slayer riffs and Code Orange-style malice". [45] Bryan Garris, the band's lead vocalist, has described their sound as being "sandwiched between hardcore and metalcore", although he has stated that the band's intention was to produce a diverse sound that was difficult to categorize. [46] Knocked Loose have been credited as one of the forerunners of the first-wave metalcore "revival" scene of the late 2010s, alongside bands such as Code Orange, Counterparts, Kublai Khan, Varials and Jesus Piece . [47]
The band cited Omen, Lizzy Borden, Slayer, Judge, Hatebreed, Slipknot, Every Time I Die, Suicide Silence and Job for a Cowboy. [48] [49] [50] For A Tear in the Fabric of Life, they cited death metal and Phil Spector as influences. [51]
They expressed their admiration for contemporary bands like Justice For The Damned, Jesus Piece and The Chisel. [50] [48]
Current members [52]
Former members
Timeline
Studio albums
EPs and splits
Demos
Singles
Title | Year | Album |
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"Deadringer" | 2016 | Laugh Tracks |
"Oblivion's Peak"[ citation needed ] | ||
"Billy No Mates / Counting Worms"[ citation needed ] | ||
"Mistakes Like Fractures" | 2019 | Mistakes Like Fractures (EP) |
"Trapped in the Grasp of a Memory"[ citation needed ] | A Different Shade of Blue | |
"...And Still I Wander South"[ citation needed ] | ||
"Upon Loss Singles" [32] | 2023 | Non-album single |
"Blinding Faith" | 2024 | You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To |
"Don't Reach For Me" | ||
"Suffocate" (featuring Poppy) |
Compilation appearances
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We went out in January 2015 with a band called Vice who were very much a hardcore band. Yet in February, we went out with Kingmaker, who were very much a metalcore band. On those tours, we played the same cities but we were playing to different kids, and when we came through again months later, we had both those crowds at the shows.