Therapy?

A versatile Northern Irish rock band, Therapy? benefited from the rise of grunge in the early '90s, but they proved their worth by outlasting that trend and any number of sub-strains that followed throughout the subsequent decades. By constantly expanding upon a frame of influential references that include the usual suspects (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest) and the not-so-usual for a metal band (Killing Joke, Hüsker Dü, Buzzcocks), Therapy? released career-defining albums like Troublegum (1994), Infernal Love (1995), and Semi-Detached (1998), and constantly challenged themselves and their fans. Despite their decibel-heavy reputation, the band possesses a melodic sensibility that also separates them from their alternative metal peers, a predilection they carried forward into the new millennium with offerings like Disquiet (2015), Cleave (2018), and Hard Cold Fire (2023).