With a sound that blends the worlds of rap, electronic dance music, post-hardcore, and metalcore, Dangerkids feel like a revised version of Linkin Park. Forming Dangerkids in Dayton, Ohio in 2012, members Andy Bane, Tyler Smyth, Jake Bryant, Jake Bonham, and Katie Cole combined their varied influences to create a dark and moody sound, bringing disparate worlds together in a way that retained the best bits of all the genres involved while still feeling cohesive. Their debut album, Collapse, was released on Rise Records in 2013. Blacklist_, the group's much anticipated sophomore outing, dropped in 2016. ~ Gregory Heaney