{"id":27399,"date":"2015-05-20T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=27399"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:56:24","slug":"the-best-band-in-ohio-is-prize-the-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/the-best-band-in-ohio-is-prize-the-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Band in Ohio is Prize the Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in August 2014 we asked you to\u00a0help us find the best unsigned bands in America<\/a>. After listening to hundreds of submissions and calling each other lots of names, we finally narrowed down our pick for the “God hates your pro teams” state. The best band in Ohio is Prize the Doubt<\/strong>.
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\nWe’ve covered a ton of bands with a ton of sounds in this feature: ambient noise<\/a>, death metal<\/a>, grind<\/a>, power metal<\/a>, hardcore<\/a>, stoner metal<\/a>, noise rock<\/a>, black metal<\/a>, post metal<\/a>, and a whole lot of other jams. Today, our 50 state project has brought us to a genre I did not expect us to touch – SKRAMZ. “What the fuck is a skramz?”, you say to yourself because you stopped listened to anything other than Anthrax<\/strong> bootlegs over twenty years ago. Skramz is another word for “screamo”. Before you start shrieking “Poser” through Cheeto-chapped lips, please note that we’re not talking about the flat-ironed and bastardized form of screamo of the early-and-mid-aughts (relevant: the words “Hawthorne Heights” activate the spam filter in the comments). Today we’re talking about raw emotional and complex hardcore as practiced by Orchid<\/strong> or pageninetynine<\/strong> or other 90s bands for smart, sad kids.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to Columbus, Ohio’s own Prize the Doubt. Though only a two-piece band, Jeremy Hill’s frenetic drums anchor Alex Webb’s chaotic fretwork and unconventional vocals to create huge waves of emotion much larger than the duo themselves. The true strength of Prize the Doubt comes from their smart songwriting and complex arrangements. The pair have an economy of sound that at times recalls the roller coaster compositions of Converge<\/strong>. Elsewhere, they adopt the dramatic builds and dynamic releases of Circle Takes the Square<\/strong> or City of Caterpillar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Prize the Doubt’s 2014 full length New Aesthetic<\/em> is easily the highest point of this young band yet. Expect equal parts rage, furious math, and shimmering depth.\u00a0 Go like Prize the Doubt on Facebook<\/a> and listen to New Aesthetic<\/em> below:<\/p>\n