Opener “Come Heroine” does a lot of things that are familiar to Touché Amoré-Bolm begins screaming off-mic the band launches into a bucking, double-time thrash they pull back during the verse and rev up the circle pit again. “Ross is known for two things, getting a drummer replaced or kicked out and making the singer cry,” Bolm joked. More germane to Touché Amoré, Robinson was also behind the boards for Blood Brothers’ Burn, Piano Island, Burn, Glassjaw’s Worship and Tribute, and the motherlode, Relationship of Command, all wildly ambitious records that pushed already revered post-hardcore bands dangerously close to mainstream success and shortly thereafter, their demise. “And my fucking brain fell out of my head.” Infamously intense and hands-on, Robinson’s anti-Rick Rubin approach irrevocably changed the course of popular metal by enabling chaotic and highly unconventional acts like Korn, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit to focus their live intensity without compromising to reach suburban adolescents like Bolm-“I saw the ‘Blind’ music video on a local music video channel,” he recently recalled. To hear Touché Amoré tell it, they had no choice but to work with famed heavy metal producer Ross Robinson if they were going to make this kind of record. It’s a long overdue revelation that he alone can’t be there for everyone at all times, which makes Lament their capstone-a Touché Amoré album that can reach the most people as possible from the greatest distance. This entire history is summarized on “I’ll Be Your Host,” the second single from their phenomenal fifth album Lament, wherein Bolm recognizes the privilege of his platform and the common misconception that he can singlehandedly walk people through their grieving process because he made a great hardcore record about not knowing how to grieve. He atoned by making an entire album about her passing from stage 4 breast cancer. Bolm missed his mother’s dying day because he was “on stage living the dream” at Fest in Florida. The music he makes with his band, Touché Amoré, compels guys with neck tattoos to spend a half hour irresponsibly slamming into fellow fans before they corner Bolm after the show and reveal how they felt truly seen by “And Now It’s Happening In Mine.” He’ll be the first to tell you about the ways he falls short: 2013’s Is Survived By explored Bolm’s struggles with the pressures of being in a profoundly impactful (but not famous) hardcore band, which brought even greater success and demands. Jeremy Bolm has spent the past decade striving to live up to the example set by his own words.
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