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Also, a few dates on the Vans Warped tour didn’t hurt the cause. Thrice has shared the stage with everyone from Brand New, to Hot Rod Circuit, to Further Seems Forever and Midtown.
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Doubtless, that had something to do with it, but mainly, this band has made it happen by relentlessly touring and recording.
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This remarkably quick success didn’t just come from being in the right place at the right time. The follow-up, Illusions of Safety came along a year later, and by the summer of 2002, the band had inked a deal with Island Records. In 2001, they released their debut full-length Identity Crisis on Sub City Records. The quartet recorded a demo described on the website as being “a turd disguised as a shiny disc that can be read by lasers”. Hailing from Orange County, California, the band’s been together since the late ’90s. Released in July of 2003, Thrice’s Island Records debut, The Artist in the Ambulance, is intense, concise, and brutal hardcore punk. Thrice comes in towards the front of the pack. From the softer side of the genre, we got new releases from Dashboard Confessional and Saves the Day. A host of other bands filled out the ranks of this burgeoning genre - bands like Alkaline Trio, Vendetta Red, A.F.I., Coheed and Cambria, Yellowcard, Brand New, Thrice, Senses Fail, and Taking Back Sunday. Led by such talented acts as Thursday and Cursive, this genre made a huge impression on the disaffected youth of the country, bringing a much-needed sense of honesty and passion to stereos, and stages. And really, the pet names for the genre were way more fun than lots of the music itself. If 2002 was the year for rough-and-tumble garage rock, 2003 saw the rise of the earnest and emotional screamer.