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The Home Team
The Home Team is a music group. Their discography on Gatefold includes 2 records.
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Biography
Fun, energetic, and bringing pop-punk/pop-rock to the forefront, The Home Team is ready to take the country by storm. Hailing from Seattle, WA, this 4-piece band consists of Brian Butcher (vocals), John Baran (guitar), Ryne Olson (bass), and Daniel Matson (drums). Working diligently to make a name for themselves, The Home Team released an EP, Black Sheep, in early 2014 and tour consistently bringing their electrifying live performance with them. The hard work, dedication to their craft, and ultimately catchy music caught the eyes of many fans.
The Arc of The Home Team
The pivots — what forced The Home Team to reinvent.
The Standard-Issue Northwest Start
Between 2014 and 2018, the band was grinding through the sweaty basement circuit with a sound heavily indebted to mid-2000s post-hardcore. Their debut LP, Better Off, showed a band with serious technical proficiency but one that was still playing it safe within the bounds of traditional pop-punk structures. The guitars were clean, the structures were predictable, and they hadn't yet figured out how to weaponize their groove. You can hear a band pulling at the leash of their own genre, desperate to do something wilder with the rhythm section.
The Slow Bloom Pivot
In 2021, they threw out the old playbook and released Slow Bloom, the record that actually defined their career. They leaned heavily into syncopated funk-metal basslines and R&B vocal runs, completely throwing off the shackles of generic easycore. They stopped treating pop and heavy rock as enemies and started fusing them together with slick, glossy production. It was a massive gamble that alienated some of the old-school pop-punk purists but gave them a completely distinct lane.
The Crucible Pop-Metal Peak
By 2024's The Crucible of Life, the transformation was total and unapologetic. Working with heavier electronic textures and even more aggressive guitar tones, the band pushed the contrast between Butcher's smooth, falsetto pop delivery and punishing, low-end riffs to its absolute limit. They toured hard under this sound, including massive runs with UK genre-benders Don Broco, proving they could back up the massive, polished studio production in a live room without relying on backing tracks to do all the heavy lifting.
Influences
- Fall Out Boy — The band has explicitly cited Patrick Stump's soulful, blue-eyed soul vocal phrasing as the primary blueprint for Brian Butcher's singing style. You hear this influence all over the vocal runs on 'Better Off,' where the band attempts to mirror the theatrical, rapid-fire lyrical delivery of the late-2000s Chicago scene. It is the foundation of their entire pop-rock dynamic.
- Don Broco — The Home Team toured extensively with these UK heavy-pop mainstays, a pairing that cemented their shared approach to mixing heavy rock riffs with massive dance grooves. You can hear this influence in the bouncy, syncopated rhythm section of 'Slow Bloom' and the use of funk-influenced guitar scratching over heavy, dropped-D riffs. It is a direct sonic lineage of making heavy music fun.
- Panic! At The Disco — The dramatic, theatrical vocal arrangements and brass-infused pop sensibilities of early Panic! records heavily shaped The Home Team's willingness to go full showtune-pop. Butcher's acrobatic vocal leaps and the dramatic flair of 'The Crucible of Life' tracks draw a straight line back to 'A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.' They took the theatricality and plugged it into a modern metalcore chassis.
- Issues — Issues pioneered the specific formula of combining top-40 R&B vocals with heavy, downtuned metalcore breakdown riffs. The Home Team took this exact blueprint and ran with it, using slick bass slaps and electronic pop production under heavy, distorted guitars on tracks like 'Watching All Your Friends Get Rich.' It is the most direct modern sonic ancestor to their current sound.
- Michael Jackson — Butcher has repeatedly pointed to Jackson's rhythmic vocal hiccups, falsetto leaps, and syncopated delivery as a massive influence on how he fits his vocals into tight, bouncy rock grooves. You hear this clearly in the staccato, percussive vocal delivery on 'Scary Movies' and other tracks from their middle era. It is pop-vocal training applied to a rock band setup.
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