With a rise to prominence nearly as relentlessly fast as their music, Canada's Obey the Brave emerged in 2012 with a sound that blends punishing extreme metal and thrash with cathartic melodic hardcore.
Based out of Ottawa and Montreal, the band features ex-Despised Icon singer Alex Erian on vocals as well as bassist Miguel Lepage, guitarists John Campbell and Greg Wood, and drummer Stevie Morotti. By the middle of 2012, the group found itself signed to iconic hardcore label Epitaph, with their debut album, Young Blood, released in August of that same year. Salvation, OTB's h...