Buried in Spring – Buried in Spring (EP) Review

Back in 2003, a little website called MySpace launched. This website was a social media site ahead of what we now know to be social media today, and during its lifecycle, the platform became a huge part of the alternative music scene, kickstarting what is often called MySpace Metalcore and MySpace Deathcore. It was a period where dirt-rough demos by bands from the arse-end of nowhere would find notoriety and fame that would shoot them into the limelight. It was a golden era of heavy music, and that golden era is having its renaissance.

A band making waves in that scene right now is Buried in Spring, a band that has popped up seemingly out of nowhere with the exact aesthetic many of us MySpace millennials are all too familiar with: a heavy melodic metalcore sound with aggressive screams and high-pitched cleans and gritty music video shot within the shell of an abandoned warehouse building. It’s almost a perfect formula and pretty much immediately had the metal Internet losing its mind. Who was this band, and how have they nailed this MySpace metalcore aesthetic almost perfectly?

Buried in Spring, according to their website, formed in 2026 and are based in Los Angeles, California, and that’s pretty much the whole story. The band dropped their first single, Integrate, in May of this year and, two months later, found themselves on the bill for the Amity Affliction & Blessthefall tour, which kicked off on October 31. The band then announced their debut show in September, dropped their single Dissipate, and unveiled that they’d signed to Epitaph Records, along with the release of their EP on October 16.

Now, not to sound too much of a conspiracy theorist here, I am always a little sceptical of bands that appear out of nowhere, land on an insane tour and get immediate backing before even playing a single show. Let’s be honest, this seems to be the new trend among metal at the moment – I’m looking at you, President – and I’m genuinely not a fan of that. That being said, this EP does exactly what it’s set out to do: show us what this band is about, and what that is bringing 2000s MySpace metalcore and post-hardcore to 2026.

While there’s no shortage of music from that era, we elder MySpace users have likely exhausted our collections. There’s only so many times we can listen to They’re Only Chasing Safety and Load My Revolver, Baby (who am I kidding, these albums will never get old). So for those seeking something new, Buried in Spring is likely exactly what you’re looking for, and I mean EXACTLY.

Posting on Reddit, guitarist and vocalist Cameron Hornbeck said the band have been working on this project for 2-3 years and “have taken on debt” to make the EP and music videos happen. A reassuring word for fellow sceptics out there, as this is something I would have been feral for when I was a teen. And who am I kidding, I’m feral for it now. I really like this EP; it scratches an itch perfectly, but it’s just a bit too perfect – a scepticism Hornbeck does understand, but assures us a lot of hard work has gone into this release.

Musically, the EP is a short but incredibly sweet mix of post-hardcore and metalcore that I absolutely would have stuck on my MySpace profile and hidden under some HTML in order to gatekeep the shit out of it. The blend of screams and cleans reminds me a lot of early Underoath; there’s a hint of Every Time I Die and early My Chemical Romance, hints of bands like Chiodos and Saosin. It’s everything we love about the genre, and I do really dig it.

In my opinion, Buried in Spring has struck gold here, but I’m unsure whether it’s a genuine nugget or mass-produced fool’s gold. While, as a whole package, I have thoroughly enjoyed the band’s debut EP, their sudden trajectory is leaving a somewhat bitter taste in my mouth. In an era where bands are being thrust into the mainstream out of nowhere, I can’t help but feel like we might be being played.