“It’s not like we made a conscious effort to change or make a good metal record or hardcore record, we just wanted to make a good Misery Signals album.” So speaks guitarist Ryan Morgan about their latest album Controller. Over the past five years the band has made huge strides within their own creative bubble, which encompasses raging metallic crunch and real life narratives seamlessly blended with beautiful instrumental and melodic post-rock sections. Technically adept but still primal, they are a band’s band able to start a mosh pit with no problem but also getting the rock hipsters to nod their head in respect. “We do draw a lot of kids who like playing music or who are starting their own bands” Morgan admits “I used to have a personal MySpace page and every day I would get questions about gear, time signatures and band dork questions like that” he laughs. On the new album, the band enlisted the poster boy for abstract and creative heavy music, Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Band) for the producer’s chair. Townsend also produced the band’s full-length debut Of Malice And The Magnum Heart (2004) and approached the band to produce Controller.

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Controller is the band’s third full-length album and is expecting to set a new watermark in the band’s career. It is a high mark to aim for as the band’s last full-length Mirrors (2006) received a deluge of critical acclaim and fan praise. Among those well wishers were Alternative Press who featured the band as 100 BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW 2007 which yielded the quote “Let’s face it: A lot of metal-roar-core acts don’t mix in Sigur Ros-esque ambient breaks within the kind of gut-wrenching boom you’ll find on the Signals’ recent disc, Mirrors.” Revolver who featured Misery Signals as a BAND TO WATCH described the band as “A relentlessly ambitious melodic, metalcore band with a knack for exhausting members with their take-no-prisoners touring schedule.” Speaking of that non-stop touring schedule the band have hit over five countries in the past several months including a headlining tour of Europe, festivals in Japan and Australia with I Killed The Prom Queen as well as their current slot supporting As I Lay Dying on their North American and Canadian dates. The band has been popular touring partners with bands across the heavy spectrum, hitting the road with such acts as Dillinger Escape Plan, Bleeding Through, Norma Jean, All That Remains, Emmure, Shai Halud, The Chariot, Darkest Hour, Dead to Fall and Between The Buried And Me. Forming in 2002, Misery Signals members live between Milwaukee, WI and Regina, Canada (over 24 hours away). Newest member, vocalist Karl Schubach joined the band just prior to the recording of Mirrors in 2006.