With seven people in a band, things can easily become a mess.

Ohio isn’t exactly close to home for me but it is for this outfit. On “Never Back Down” Close To Home combine pop-punk and hardcore in a way that has already been done countless times before.

The Felix Culpa are a bunch of Illinois-based proggy post-hardcore/indie rockers who dropped an ambitious album called “Sever Your Roots” a little more than a year ago.

Check out All That Remains’ 2006 album “The Fall Of Ideals” and you’ll hear a very pissed off metalcore band.

Definitely one of the more interesting bands to watch on the Victory roster, The Sleeping drops another winner called “The Big Deep”.

I’ve honestly never heard of Ryan’s Hope but apparently it was something of a metallic punkrock band.

Aggressive, loud, offensive & punk as f@*!k, a seething, slavering beast of an album. Well, that is what the sticker on the jewel case claimed.

Crazy Arm get to call Plymouth home and are a bunch of twangy punkrockers who like to combine a variety of styles ranging from punkrock to country on their debut “Born To Ruin”.

Nashville’s Blacklist Royals have released a highly enjoyable album called “Semper Liberi”.

On their semi-new album Alkaline Trio covers Violent Femmes, a band who themselves are not entirely unfamiliar with playing acoustic songs in a rocking kinda way.