One Step Closer (band)
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 One Step Closer performing in 2022 | |
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| Origin | Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
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| Website | onestepcloserxxx |
One Step Closer is an American straight edge hardcore punk band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.[1] The band is currently signed to Run for Cover Records.[2] The band was one of Stereogum's "Bands To Watch" [3] The band's debut album, This Place You Know, was released in 2021 to positive reviews.[4] BrooklynVegan calls them "one of the most exciting new bands in hardcore".[5]
One Step Closer's earliest music was a part of the youth crew revival of the 2010s, with music largley inspired by Turning Point.[6]
By the 2020s, they had shifted their sound towards melodic hardcore.[7][8] Their influences were Turning Point, Inside Out, Title Fight, Blink-182, Green Day,[7] Have Heart, Bane,[9] Sunny Day Real Estate, the Get-Up Kids, Box Car Racer, the Cure[10] and Mineral.[11] Upset Magazine writer Rob Mair described their music of this era as merging "classic DC emo with youth crew passion and late 90s melodic hardcore approachability to create a sound inspired by hardcore's past but beholden to no single scene."[12] At this time, they made use of elements of indie rock,[12] post-hardcore and shoegaze.[11]
On All You Embrace (2024), they shifted their sound towards emo grunge[13] and emo.[14] At this time, their influences were Basement, Title Fight, Deftones, Jawbreaker,[15] Oasis, True Widow, Failure, the Smashing Pumpkins, Rival Schools, the Cure and Mock Orange.[16] Of this era, Savitzki said that the members "have always been leaning into the emo-core sound. We are finally taking the bigger step into what we’ve been wanting to do for a while now."[17] Punknews noted the album as similar to the emo and screamo artists involved in the wave.[18]