The Blood Brothers Essentials

Forged in a Seattle basement in the late ‘90s, The Blood Brothers' post-hardcore racket is one of new-millennium rock 'n' roll's most inimitable achievements. Vocalist Johnny Whitney mewls like a radioactive cat in gender-confused heat while dueling co-frontman Jordan Blilie snarls like a jittery post-apocalyptic cowboy. Guitars and keyboards jerk from aggro noise to glam-rock decay; drums rumble like oncoming bulldozers. Together, the screamo five-piece conjure raw despair, the sound of arsonists caught in their own inferno; nobody does violent panic better.