PRE-ORDER: Initiate - With Love // With Rage EP [Blue & Red Marble], Initiate, Vinyl

A thin line separates our most extreme feelings. Across this line, we express grief and joy, confusion and confidence, and hate and love with the same amount of passion and vigor. Initiate sonically channel opposite ends of a vast emotional continuum. Anger and wrath overflow from serrated riffs, pit-splitting breakdowns, and cathartic screams, whereas affirmations of comfort, assurances of friendship, and promises of forever are beamed through otherworldly chord progressions, swaths of keys, and ethereal vocal transmissions. Elements of hardcore, alternative, metal, and indie coalesce like colors in a kaleidoscope, fissuring, fragmenting, and fusing back into focus. Following widespread acclaim, packed shows, and millions of streams, the quartet—Crystal Pak [vocals], Michael Morales [bass], Draven Carter [guitar], Manning Gray [guitar] and John Hodge [drums]—strike an uncanny balance between sounds and emotions on their 2026 With Love // With Rage EP [Blue Grape Music].