[DID NOT ATTEND: April 17, 2026] Touché Amoré / One Step Closer / Greet Death
I’ve seen Touché Amoré twice and have been clown away both times. When they announced this tour of the Stage Four album, I was ready to see them. I don’t know this album any more than their other ones, but I do enjoy a tour of an entire album.
Now this album is pretty intense: it is the band’s fourth album, but the title’s central inspiration was singer Jeremy Bolm’s mother, who died of cancer. But I have been so impressed by the passion and empathy of the band that I assumed this show would be the very definition of catharsis.
But then DAVE announced a show the same night and I had a tough time deciding which to go to. I had never seen DAVE before, after all. And then, the whole thing was moot because the John Malkovich show was announced in Princeton, and there was no way I could miss that.
I’m sure Touché Amoré will be back and I will happily see them again next time.
I don’t know One Step Closer, but they are a straight edge hardcore punk band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. They are indeed a hardcore band (the singer is a classic hardcore screamer) but they have some melodic components as well. Indeed, in one song there’s intense hardcore screaming and also really pretty harmonies. They haven’t put out an album since 2024 and it sounds like their sound is evolving. I’ll bet they are great live.
I saw Greet Death (geez, with this name and the TA album being about cancer…) open for Foxing in 2022. I have an overall good memory of them, but when I look at the post I wrote, I didn’t have all that much to say about them, except that the girls in front of me talked thoughout their set. Their newest album is even more shoegaze than when I saw them. This would have been a fun night (despite the darkness).
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