![]() ![]() Following the band's self-titled six-track EP, released in 2003, Aust was replaced by new guitarist Stuart Ross. Guitarist Jeff Aust had been in Hamartia, while guitarist Ryan Morgan, bassist Kyle Johnson, and drummer Branden Morgan ( Ryan's brother) filled out the lineup. Singer Jesse Zaraska had the highest profile, having worked with 7 Angels 7 Plagues, and the Canadian hardcore act Compromise, who had broken up in 2002 following the death of two of their members in a car accident. Misery Signals formed in Wisconsin in 2003, featuring members of a number of regional hardcore and emo bands. Since debuting in 2004 with the Devin Townsend-produced Of Malice and the Magnum Heart, the band have issued a string of versatile and acclaimed long-players like Controller (2008) and Ultraviolet (2020) that have helped establish them as one of the more original and influential acts of the genre. ![]() Melodic metalcore outfit Misery Signals blend math rock tropes like tricky time-signature shifts and knotty guitar parts with the raw aggression of post-hardcore and the seismic world-building of post-rock, creating a sound with more emotional heft than the former yet that is also less monochromatic than the latter.
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