There’s uncompromising heaviness to Sanction’s music that has been missing from metalcore for near a decade. We’re not talking about deathcore’s overdone sheen, where a breakdown is a product over being an integral set piece. We’re talking about when metalcore and its splinter genres were not product but art form,

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels as if the metalcore spirit of decades past is gleefully haunting us once again. I’m sure some of you may read the term “metalcore” and consider it a genre slur of sorts, especially in relation to its early-mid aughts strains. If you do,