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As One Of The Bands Spearheading The New Age Of Emerging Pop-Punk Acts Minneapolis-Based Outfit Unturned Is A Band To Keep Your Eye On. Reminiscent Of The Emo Pop-Punk We All Grew Up Listening To Unturned Has Managed To Take Old Elements From The Genre And Combine Them With Their Own Interpretation Creating A Fresh And New Sound That Features Hints Of Grunge Mixed With Gritty Pop-Punk Vocals And Unfiltered Emo Lyrics. Forming After Parker Vocals And Sam Drums Decided To Take The Acoustic Demos They Recorded In Parker’s Basement And Do Something More Unturned Has Emerged From A Music Scene Many Are Unaware Of. Although It May Be Tucked Away In The Midwestern United States The City Of Minneapolis Has A Underground Music Scene That Has Been Home For A Number Of Bands Over The Years Including Molly’s Worst Enemy Infinite Me And Household All Bands Unturned Credit For Influencing Their Sound. “The Minneapolis And Midwest Music Scenes Have Influenced Us In Huge Ways. We Love The Community And Are Very Lucky To Have Such A Strong Music Scene With The Truly Talented Bands We Have. There Were A Lot Of Bands That We Saw When We First Started Going To Shows Who Really Influenced Us And Still Do.” While Unturned Plays Regularly In Minneapolis And In The Midwest They Have Managed To Transform Themselves From Being A Midwest Basement Band To Sharing Stages With The Likes Of Hippo Campus Tiny Moving Parts And Seaway. Most Recently Their Latest EP "Sunk" That Was Released Last Month On No Sleep Records Has Created A Buzz Throughout The Scene Unturned Further Integrating Their Unique And Gritty Sound Into The World Of Pop-Punk. Featuring Five Hard-Hitting Tracks That Discuss Real-Life Problems We All Face Each Day The Songs On The EP Represent A Group Of Musicians Maturing Into Their Sound None Of Them Being Afraid Of Throwing Out Their Unfiltered Thoughts For The World To Hear. However While The Process Behind "Sunk" Was Rewarding And Helped Unturned Evolve As A Band The Months Leading Up To Them Entering The Studio Were Anything But Simple. “The Writing Process Was Long. We Had Just Added Two Members And Released An EP To Promote That And It Took Us A Long Time To Figure Out What Kind Of Sound We Were Going For And Creating Songs We Were Happy With.” Juggling The Member Change And The Gruelling Schedule That Comes With Touring Unturned Managed To Confidently Cultivate The Direction They Wanted To Take Their Sound In For This Third EP The Release Ultimately Pushing Them In The Studio While Also Allowing Them To Reflect On How The Past Few Years Have Been. “"Sunk" Is The Culmination Of Two Years Worth Of Writing And Touring. Through Those Two Years Came A Lot Of Doubt And Anxiety But These Five Songs Have Kept Us Together And Kept Us Pushing Forward.” The Band Travelled To Hopatcong New Jersey This Time Last Year And Began Working With Producer Gary Cioni Grayscale Sorority Noise Free Throw At Barber Shop Studios. While Sunk Is A Reflection Of A Two-Year Period For The Band The Recording Process For The EP Took About A Week Unturned Pushing Themselves Creatively In The Studio Especially When It Came To Songwriting. “We Changed The Way We Worked As A Band And How We Wrote Songs. Writing Songs Became Something That Made Us All Very Anxious For A Long Time. Once We Had Written Two Of The Songs We Had Found A Comfortable Way To Work With Each Other Crafting Songs The Way We Wanted.” As One Of The Five Tracks That Made It Onto "Sunk" “Comedown” Was A Particular Song Unturned Struggled With In The Studio. Wanting A Track That Would End The EP On A High Unturned Used Their New Found Way Of Writing To Create One Of The Strongest Songs On The Whole Release. “We Tried To Make It Unique And Wanted It To Have That Heavy End. We Really Wanted It To Hit Hard As We Kind Of Knew We Wanted It To Be The End Of The EP. The Process Was Mostly In The Studio As We Tried To Make It Sound Massive And Gross At The End.” - Rachel Dowd Via Highlight Magazine read less