Stream Catalyst’s very good new screamo album ‘Come In and Thank God’

Rising Providence, RI screamo band Catalyst have come a long way since last releasing a full-length (their 2022 sophmomore LP Pomona), and their great recent shorter releases like their 2023 EP … and their 2024 split with Vs Self, Knumears, and Party Hats have had me feeling very excited for them to finally release their next album. And despite keeping an eye out for it, I just realized that Catalyst released their third full-length, Come In and Thank God, on New Year’s Day of this year. I’ve been listening, and it’s a banger.

It’s the band’s first release with their current lineup, it was recorded/mixed/mastered by their own Nathan Wright, and it features a collaboration with Lucideadlimb on the amazingly-titled “r u kitten me right meow.” And in classic emo fashion, the title of that song is the only thing jokey about this entire album. This is dead-serious, impassioned screamo that expertly toes the line between raw emotion, heavy chaos, and delicate beauty. It’s part of the long lineage of melody-driven screamo that you can trace from Portraits of Past to Touché Amoré to Record Setter to so much else in between, and Come In and Thank God is making this kind of stuff feel fresh and new all over again. Check it out below.

COME IN AND THANK GOD by catalyst…