Initiate - With Love // With Rage EP
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description: A thin line separates our most extreme feelings. Across this line, we express grief and joy, confusion and confidence, and hate and love with the same amount of passion and vigor. Initiate sonically channel opposite ends of a vast emotional continuum. Anger and wrath overflow from serrated riffs, pit-splitting breakdowns, and cathartic screams, whereas affirmations of comfort, assurances of friendship, and promises of forever are beamed through otherworldly chord progressions, swaths of keys, and ethereal vocal transmissions. Elements of hardcore, alternative, metal, and indie coalesce like colors in a kaleidoscope, fissuring, fragmenting, and fusing back into focus. Following widespread acclaim, packed shows, and millions of streams, the quartet—Crystal Pak [vocals], Michael Morales [bass], Draven Carter [guitar], Manning Gray [guitar] and John Hodge [drums]—strike an uncanny balance between sounds and emotions on their 2026 With Love // With Rage EP [Blue Grape Music]. “When I looked back at the lyrics, everything read as a letter, either to another person in my life, my friends, or myself,” reveals Crystal. “However, a letter to a friend would be signed off ‘With Love’ not ‘With Rage’. I intentionally wrote these songs, so they spoke to these two opposing feelings: love and rage. You can tell which tracks spill to which side.” 2025’s “Too Much” saw the group expand their sonic palette, layer shimmering sonics over fuzzed-out riffing and seething vocal paroxysms and illuminating the expanse of Initiate’s rapidly evolving vision. Kicking off another chapter, they attracted Blue Grape to their corner and hit the studio with longtime collaborator and producer Zach Tuch [Silverstein, Knocked Loose] in order to record With Love//With Rage. Widening their collective palette, the musicians nodded to inspirations as diverse as Hum, Deftones, Jane’s Addiction, Rage Against The Machine, and Failure as well as longtime favorites Paramore. “We all wondered, ‘What would it sou…
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