For Footballhead’s Weight of the Truth, a “post-grunge revival” is hard to claim. There have consistently been new bands popping up that play the style, while Nickelback and Three Days Grace have never stopped being discussed. Perhaps “post-grunge reassessment” is a better wording.
What in the 2000s was viewed as a gravel-throated cyst on the carcass of mainstream rock, by 2026 is “real music” with a tongue planted firmly in your cheek. The likes of Pierce the Veil and Cane Hill pushed their sound closer to it during the 2020s, and today, post-Jeris Johnson Generation Z solo artists Violent Vira, Leah Barrientos and Alexis Munroe rule TikTok. At some point this decade, Gen Z did what Gen Z did and made the term “post-grunge” fall out of favour,…