In And Out Of Weeks

The ‘90s and ‘00s Chicago-area punk scene was the embodiment of a stereotype that Midwesterners revel in: scrappy, pure-of-intent underdogs; people who let their work do the talking. Incubated in a suburban-Chicago petri dish, Miasis began in 1999; an era when the crossover of punk and metal was well established, and bold bands like Botch, Converge—and most importantly to Miasis’ story, Coalesce—were tightening the screws on what would eventually be called metalcore.