DRAGGED UNDER

Nineties skatepunk meets modern metalcore via Seattle

WHAT DO YOU get when you cross the choruses of Beartooth, the bouncy hardcore of The Bronx, the emotion of The Used and the attitude of Millencolin? You get Dragged Under, the Seattle-based quintet who sound like someone went back in time to introduce modern metalcore to the 90s. “We’re cool with providing a 30-minute nostalgic experience of what it was like growing up in the 90s,” says vocalist Tony Cappocchi. “Basically we’re Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1-core.”

The band were formed from the ashes of Tony’s previous outfit, Rest, Repose, who featured popular Youtube musician Jared Dines on bass – but Dragged Under couldn’t sound further from this thinking-man’s alt-rock collective.

“You listen to Rest, Repose and it’s very milquetoast, rounded edges and whimsical,” explains Tony, “I’m not interested in dancing on the nuance of words. I wanna get in people’s faces and tell them exactly what I want them to hear.”

Passionate livewire messaging is all over Dragged Under’s 2020 debut album, The World Is In Your Way, and on their new live EP, We’ll Do It Live, which contains the kind of zealous songs that punks crave. “I think kids that are into this new wave of punk – the rappers making punk songs and the Olivia Rodrigos of the world – our music has a place there,” says Tony. “And for the mid-20-30 year olds that used to love skatepunk, I think that we’d be a breath of fresh air for them too.”

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