Crobot

Pennsylvania's Crobot surfaced at the start of the 2010s, channeling a style built on groove-heavy, fuzz-soaked hard rock laced with gritty swagger and unrestrained energy. Their first appearance on the charts came in 2014 via the Billboard-listed Something Supernatural, after which the group stayed prominent in active rock by pairing potent riffs with incisive hooks across the well-received Motherbrain (2019) and Feel This (2022).

Guitarist Chris Bishop and vocalist Brandon Yeagley launched the band in 2012. Operating from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the duo issued the self-released EP The Legend of Spaceborne Killer, then completed the lineup by recruiting brothers Jake and Paul Figueroa on bass and drums. Refining their dense, riff-centered approach, Crobot inked a deal with Wind-Up Records in 2013; the label issued the quartet's self-titled, groove-oriented EP the following year and, in October, their debut full-length Something Supernatural. Their sophomore album Welcome to Fat City arrived in 2016 through Nuclear Blast.

After that release, Jake and Paul Figueroa exited, with bassist James Alexander Lascu and drummer Dan Ryan stepping in during mid-2017. The new configuration steered the material toward darker subjects, moving beyond the earlier fictional and metaphorical lyrics toward raw, reality-based storytelling. Sessions for the third studio album produced a stark trailer in November 2017 under the working title Rat Child; early 2019 brought a switch to Motherbrain, issued that August. The record, driven by the mainstream rock single "Low Life," entered the Billboard Heatseekers chart at number six. The Rat Child EP surfaced in 2021, featuring contributions from Steel Panther's Stix Zadinia, Light the Torch's Howard Jones, and Anthrax bassist Frank Bello. March 2022 brought the fiery track "Better Time," preceding the band's fourth album Feel This, which followed later that summer.