Taproot

I love the feeling you get when you discover a new band that you like. It's like falling in love over and over again. Such is my current enjoyment of Taproot. These guys are a severely underrated post-grunge band from the early 2000s, in the vein of contemporaries Breaking Benjamin and Alter Bridge. They're most famous for their song "Poem", off their 2002 album,Welcome, which I think also happens to be their best song. It's a surprising mix of the traditional, darkly melodic grind of guitars, combined with vocalist Stephen Richards' uncharacteristically nasal singing, which is punctuated now and then with the requisite metal scream. This, combined with layered harmonies, give Taproot songs an uncanny beauty. If you wanted to go for their best album, definitely check out their debut, gift. It has a lot of pounders like "Again & Again" and "Time". The video to "Poem" is also worth checking out; the decaying setting and despairing hypocrisy is something you don't generally see from this era of do-it-yourself music videos. Video embedding has been disabled for it, but the song is posted with lyrics above. As always, I do not own any rights. Credit to Victory Records.