LoveHateHero

First things first here, let’s address the elephant in the room: There are a lot of bands doing this kind of music right now, the whole hair-metal-emo thing. Like, a ton, I know. The vast, overwhelming majority of them are as forgettable and vapid as the majority of bands that made up their forefather genres. And while first look and listen might make it easy to lump the L.A. natives of LoveHateHero into the aforementioned bunch, these dudes bring something to the table none of their contemporaries do. While the other bands in their scene phone it in so half-assedly you’d swear it was on an iPhone 4, these guys actually put a little spark in their music. Sure, they look like All Time Low playing dress up as Guns N’ Roses, but these guys bring some very legit rock with them to the stage. With gritty melodic vocals that are emotive without being whiny and anthemic guitar shredding that’d get Slash himself stoked on who’s carrying the torch for rock these days, don’t let their scene associations fool you. These guys are anything but more of the same. - Brien Overly