Birmingham, AL · southern-metal · metalcore

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

1 upcoming festival

Southern-fried metalcore built around the Barrow gang mythology — slide guitar over breakdowns, Alabama grit in every groove.

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster formed in Birmingham, Alabama in 2004 around vocalist Dallas Taylor, previously of Underoath. The band took its name and early lyrical framing from Depression-era outlaw lore, and built a sound that fused metalcore's breakdowns and screamed vocals with Southern rock's slide guitar, dual-guitar harmonies and blues phrasing.

Across several albums the group leaned progressively further into that Southern side, adding more clean singing and swing to the riffing while keeping the hardcore underpinnings intact. They remain one of the more identifiable examples of Southern-inflected metalcore from the 2000s.

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