You can say your favorite band has gone through a lot to get to where they are, and chances are you're right. But that's likely nothing to what Bayside have had to endure on the way to the top of the punk-rock scene. After a horrible van accident claimed the life of their drummer Jon "Beatz" Holoman, Bayside pressed on in his honor, and have put out solid effort after solid effort while tirelessly touring the globe to assert themselves as worthy of their self-proclaimed "Cult" of fans. While 2008's
Shudder was considered by some to be their least-loved release (you can't call any Bayside release
bad, after all), how would their new album, and first released on Wind-Up Records, stand up to a discography already lined with classic anthems?
