Badflower

Los Angeles hard rock outfit Badflower channels Sunset Strip grit and swagger into a muscular post-grunge sound laced with dark anthems exploring addiction, pain, and mental illness. The group first appeared in 2013 and scored its initial modern rock radio success via “Ghost” in 2018. Their debut full-length, OK, I'm Sick, surfaced in early 2019 through Big Machine and claimed the top spot on the U.S. Heatseekers chart. Two years afterward came the sophomore album This Is How the World Ends, while the next chapter opened in 2024 with the release of “Teacher Has a Gun.”

Originally assembled in 2008 under a different name, the band later swapped bassists and adopted its current moniker. The revised lineup—vocalist/guitarist Josh Cole Katz, guitarist Joseph Paul Morrow, drummer Anthony Sonetti, and bassist Alex Espiritu—issued the Temper EP in 2015 on Hundred Handed Records. That fiery collection featured the arena-sized single “Animal” plus four additional raw cuts fusing the intensity of Royal Blood and Aeges with the visceral edge of early Silverchair. The 2018 hit “Ghost,” which confronted depression and self-harm, climbed to number two on the U.S. mainstream rock chart. Alongside the follow-up singles “x ANA x” and “Heroin,” the track anchored OK, I'm Sick, which reached the Billboard 200 and peaked at number ten on the Alternative Albums chart. On vocalist Josh Cole Katz’s thirtieth birthday in 2020, the band dropped the anguished standalone “30,” soon followed by the lumbering, grunge-tinged “F*ck the World.”

The 2021 single “Family” launched the album cycle for This Is How the World Ends and landed inside the Top 20 of both the U.S. Hard Rock and Heatseekers charts. A fresh era commenced in 2024 with the singles “Teacher Has a Gun” and “Detroit.”