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Forevermore
Indianapolis, United States
Forevermore is a music group from Indianapolis, United States.
Biography
Forevermore is a five-piece metalcore band from Indianapolis, USA. Band Members: Kramer Lowe - Vocals Jared Storm - Guitar Alex Smith - Guitar Sammy Vaughn - Drums Michael Taylor - Bass Former Members: Jordan Furr - Vocals Derek Belser - Bass/ Guitar Drew Beechler - Bass Discography: "Moths and Rust" (June 2010) "Sojourner" (December 2012) "Telos" (July 2014)
The Arc of Forevermore
The pivots — what forced Forevermore to reinvent.
The Solid State Initiation
Signing to Solid State for Sojourner forced them into the professional grind of the Christian metalcore circuit, which polished their rougher edges but kept them within a specific sonic cage. You can hear the struggle between their natural technical ambition and the label's demand for accessible hooks in the way the choruses fight the odd-time signatures. It was a transitional period where Jordan Furr's vocal delivery started to move past the standard screams into something more melodic and rhythmic. This era is defined by that high-gain, clean-cut production that was the industry standard for the early 2010s.
The Telos Pivot
Everything changed when they embraced the progressive-metal template fully on Telos, moving away from standard song structures and into conceptual territory. They stopped writing for the back of the room and started focusing on these intricate, interlocking guitar parts that owed as much to jazz-fusion as they did to thrash. The production got drier and more clinical, which let the technicality breathe instead of burying it under a wall of noise. This was the moment they stopped being a metalcore band and started being a legitimate math-metal outfit.
Influences
- Meshuggah — The band cited the Swedish titans as the primary reason they started experimenting with non-linear rhythmic structures. The mechanical, palm-muted polyrhythms on Integral are a direct descendant of the 'Thordendal' school of riffing. They took the cold, industrial precision and applied it to a more melodic framework.
- The Dillinger Escape Plan — Furr has pointed to Dillinger’s ability to combine sheer chaos with mathematical intent as a blueprint for their mid-career shift. You hear it in the frantic, jagged transitions on the Telos record where the tempo feels like it's about to derail. It’s that controlled volatility that moved them away from standard 4/4 breakdowns.
- Between the Buried and Me — The structural ambition of Colors is the DNA for Forevermore's later conceptual work. They mirrored the way BTBAM weaves disparate genres together without losing the heavy anchor. The long-form songwriting on their final two releases is a clear nod to the prog-metal path cleared by the North Carolina veterans.
- August Burns Red — As label mates and frequent tour partners, the technical precision of ABR served as the floor for Forevermore's early work. The lead guitar work on Moths and Rust follows the same neoclassical-meets-hardcore lineage established on records like Messengers. It’s the foundational grit that they eventually built their weirder ideas on top of.
- Misery Signals — The emotional weight and atmospheric layering found on Of Malice and the Magnum Heart influenced the more melodic, spacious moments in Forevermore’s discography. You hear this influence in the clean guitar interludes that provide the necessary breathing room between the technical assaults. They took the 'melodic hardcore' blueprint and sharpened the math behind it.
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