A versatile post-hardcore outfit based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, Hopesfall sweated it out in living rooms and church basements before crystallizing their unique blend of emotionally raw alternative rock and sci-fi-obsessed melodic hardcore. Emerging in 1999 with The Frailty of Words, the band's early work contained religious overtones, but beginning with 2002's The Satellite Years, they adopted a more secular tone. Subsequent albums A Types (2004) and Magnetic North (2007) relied more on clean vocals, introducing elaborate melodies and grandiose sonic textures while ma...