Pyre

“This is it Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.”

“I know.”
“What do we do?”
“Enjoy it.”

It is the loneliness and most crestfallen day of the year again, and with it brings bad tidings, quotes from a movie that we'll never run out of, and a screamy band capable of matching that inner despondency. Pyre are a five-piece screamo band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that formed in 2022. Following an EP and a split, they released their debut full-length This Is How We Lose Fullness last year, which is when I first heard of them. After reading the lyrics and seeing how delightfully dismal they were, this band was immediately pegged for this very post. Don't let the song titles fool you, they're just a cover for the bleeding heart drudgery behind them, accentuated by an incredible sonic blend of heavy, dissonant chaos and shrieked vocals (in the vein of Jeromes Dream, Portrait, or Loma Prieta) with melodic breaks that trade off screamed and sung vocals reminiscent of fellow V-Day alumni You And I. The drums are flooring, the guitars harshly cathartic, with melancholic lyrics and vocals that all come together as the perfect recipe for this miserable day. If you want to deepen the wound, links to all the previous V-Day entries can also be found below. Don't enjoy.

Happiness Is Hard To Find (2022)

1. Stare

2. Flies

3. I Wrote It In Guitar Pro

4. Daikatana II: John Romero Will Make You His Bitch, Again

Posted Marked Stamps #4 (2023)

1. Pyre - 3416

2. Biliardo - song3

4. Pyre - Dove Takes Flight

4. Biliardo - halt

5. Pyre - Unforgiven 7

6. Biliardo - the day the insects awaken

This Is How We Lose Fullness (2025)

1. Intro

2. Pond Lehocky Tonsil Hockey

3. How 'Bout One Of Them God Songs?

4. Good Bones, Better Teeth

5. STFUmode

6. Men Love Multi-Level Marketing

7. Flash Floods As Predicted By The Wii Forecast Channel

8. Richard Brandon Has A Hot Dog Dick

9. I Showed You To My Youtube Poop, Please Respond

10. Dove Takes Flight Pt. II

11. Beef Strogan, Seth Rogen, Joe Rogan, Hulk Hogan

12. Cowboy Shit

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Previous Installments

 

2013: The Saddest Landscape

2014: iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook

2015: You And I

2016: Love Lost But Not Forgotten

2017: In Loving Memory

2018: Kite Flying Society

2019: The Khayembii Communiqué

2020: Harrison Bergeron

2021: The Last Forty Seconds

2022: The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra

2023: Vowel

2024: Toru Okada