Johnny Truant

Although metalcore is usually thought of as being native to the malls and skate parks of suburban America, its reach has turned global: witness Johnny Truant, a quintet of emo kids from the seaside resort town of Brighton, England, the United Kingdom's answer to Atlantic City. Originally called Severance, the band quickly renamed themselves after the main character in Mark Z. Danielewski's 2000 novel House of Leaves, a screamingly pretentious avant-garde gloss on H.P. Lovecraft-style macabre fantasy. Singer Olly Mitchell, guitarist and second vocalist Stuart Hunter, bassist Ja...