Employed To Serve

Woking, U.K. female-fronted metalcore group Employed to Serve combine punk and technical death metal guitars with a healthy dose of melody, crunchy grooves, and swing from the rhythm section. Greyer Than You Remember, their 2015 debut album, garnered an active, involved -- and some would say fanatical -- audience of their peers that relished in their punishing riffs and socially conscious lyrics as the band's songs revealed intimate connections between personal and societal alienation, displacement, anger, malaise, and transcendence. As evidenced by 2017's The Warmth of a Dying Sun and 2019's Eternal Forward Motion, they have remained sonically true to core principles yet have evolved toward something more hooky, progressive, and hook-laden. 2021's Conquering is an album-length anthemic manifesto of perseverance and liberation.