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Vein, a Boston-region ensemble rooted in aggression, draws from pure screamo, drum'n'bass, and late-'90s metal to forge an extreme, often unsettling heaviness. Following multiple demos and brief live appearances, the group delivered its first official release, the Billboard-charting Errorzone, in 2018. Three years afterward, the band put out This World Is Going to Ruin You while operating as Vein.Fm.

The members originated in suburbs surrounding Andover, Massachusetts, where vocalist Anthony DiDio encountered drummer Matt Wood at a Haverhill concert in 2010. Bassist Jon Lhaubouet joined soon after, along with guitarists Jeremy Martin and Josh Butts, and the five-piece assembled as Vein in 2013. Taking cues from American hardcore acts such as Converge and Botch plus '90s alt-metal mainstays Deftones and Korn, the lineup captured and independently issued a self-titled demo that same year. Another self-released project, Terrors Realm, followed in 2014. During this period the musicians tracked material destined for their first full-length, while also circulating 2016's A Release of Excess Flesh, a split 7" alongside Virginia screamo band .gif from God, and 2017's four-track Self-Destruct EP.

Errorzone, Vein's inaugural proper album on Closed Casket Activities, appeared in 2018 with production by Will Putney. Filled with sudden bursts of intensity and unexpected melodic turns, the fierce record featured the single "Virus://Vibrance," reached number 21 on Billboard's Hard Rock album chart, and later prompted the 2021 remix collection Old Data in a New Machine, Vol. 1 under the Vein.Fm banner. Prior to unveiling their second full-length, the group signed with Nuclear Blast and returned in 2022 with the dynamic, Putney-helmed This World Is Going to Ruin You, which welcomed contributions from Thursday's Geoff Rickly, east coast screamo unit Jerome's Dream, and Michigan rapper BONES.