The Pop Corporation

We reckon a thousand hardcore bands have just been formed in the US. See, Knocked Loose performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and, as they were taking no prisoners, they played HARD. As such, a number of Americans – remember, for all the ways the US is cool, it is a country full of pearl clutching Christians – have complained.

The band were joined by Poppy for a blistering version of ‘Suffocate’, and jeeeez, they went studs up. Pyro, breakdowns, terrifying volume, screaming, circle pits – the whole works.

You can imagine a bunch of kids watching it and suddenly wanting to start a heavy group of their own. It’s a pretty much perfect performance, even if you don’t like that kind of music.

To solidify how cool the whole thing was, they frightened the living daylights out of a buncha squares. On Facebook (where else?) one person wrote in earnest: “You know I was trying to enjoy the program. I was sitting on the couch with my son who is an ADOLESCENT waiting to see the musical guest because we like the nice music the show usually books.”

“By the third or fourth ‘JUNT’ from the guitars my son was in tears. He doesn’t like scary things and quite frankly I think the Kimmel show and its staff should make a formal apology.”

Brilliant. That’s the stuff rock ‘n’ roll dreams are made of right?

Frontman Bryan Garris has responded to such criticisms. “You may have seen it already, you may have not. I’ve been lucky enough that my timeline is flooded with so much support that I see it every time I open my phone. But I wanted a chance to post about it myself.”

“The other day Knocked Loose performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! For a long time now our goal has been to see how far we could squeeze this band into places where we don’t fit and I think this may be the biggest one. National television. It feels like the ceiling gets higher for EVERYONE, every single day. We celebrate this together. Thank you so much.”

“Walking down the hallway as we were escorted to [the] stage I’m looking to my left and right and seeing photos of all the celebrities that have been on the show over the years. Presidents, actors, musicians etc. I leaned over to [guitarist Isaac Hale] and said ‘this started in your garage’. He grabbed onto me and squeezed as hard as he could. That’s a moment I’ll never forget.”

Then, to sign off: “PS if it scared you, good.”