The Sense made their mark on the city’s mid-’00s all-ages scene with an upbeat post-hardcore sound and relentless work ethic. Taking their name from a 2002 Hot Water Music song, …
Sadville: ‘Make Ready the Cross’ (2008)
What stood out about Cookeville transplants Sadville was the ease and fury with which they stabbed away at every worthwhile sound on the hardcore and underground-metal spectrum. The band’s live …
Chelsea Horror: ‘Untitled EP’
Chelsea Horror Untitled EP (recorded 2004; previously unreleased) There are few more memorable debuts in recent Knoxville rock than Chelsea Horror’s set as the Stooges at Pilot Light’s 2003 Halloween masquerade, …
Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight: ‘S-T’
The scene centered around Knoxville’s Pilot Light hasn’t ever lacked for confrontational sounds, but no band ever stampeded the boundaries quite like the Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight. Beginning with …