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* ''Amongst the Low & Empty" (2023)

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* ''Amongst the Low & Empty" Empty'' (2023)
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* ''Malevolent Enslavement'' (2019) (single)

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* ''Malevolent Enslavement'' "Malevolent Enslavement" (2019) (single)



* ''Pernicious'' (2020) (single)
* ''The Collection'' (2021) (single)

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* ''Pernicious'' "Pernicious" (2020) (single)
* ''The Collection'' "The Collection" (2021) (single)



* ''Unbridled'' (2022) (single)
* ''Amongst the Low & Empty'' (2023) (single)
* ''Amongst the Low & Empty'' (2023) (LP)

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* ''Unbridled'' "Unbridled" (2022) (single)
* ''Amongst "Amongst the Low & Empty'' Empty" (2023) (single)
* ''Amongst the Low & Empty'' (2023) (LP)Empty" (2023)



* SpecialGuest: Chris Gonzalez, [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen]], Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, ex-Lorna Shore), Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan), Nick Arthur (Molotov Solution), [[Music/DespisedIcon Alex Erian]], and [[Music/ShadowOfIntent Ben Duerr]] have served as guest vocalists, and this is what Dave Simonich started as before being inducted in full-time. Matt Krawchuk (ex-Suffokate), meanwhile, was strictly a fill-in, as Dave Simonich didn't have a passport at the time and they needed someone to handle the Canadian dates until they got back into the US.

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* SpecialGuest: Chris Gonzalez, [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen]], Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, ex-Lorna Shore), (Music/ChelseaGrin, ex[=-=]Music/LornaShore), Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan), Nick Arthur (Molotov Solution), [[Music/DespisedIcon Alex Erian]], and [[Music/ShadowOfIntent Ben Duerr]] have served as guest vocalists, and this is what Dave Simonich started as before being inducted in full-time. Matt Krawchuk (ex-Suffokate), meanwhile, was strictly a fill-in, as Dave Simonich didn't have a passport at the time and they needed someone to handle the Canadian dates until they got back into the US.
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* {{Djent}}: A prominent element of their sound from ''Absolvere'' onward, with heavy influence taken from Vildhjarta, Humanity's Last Breath, Car Bomb, and other extreme djent acts.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: At 6'2", Dave is the tallest member of the band, while Mike is also fairly tall and Jeff is of average height, and Bobby is quite short.

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* BigGuyLittleGuy: At 6'2", Dave is the tallest member of the band, while Mike is also fairly tall and Jeff Carl is of average height, and Bobby is quite short.
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* ''Amongst the Low & Empty'' (2023) (LP)
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* ''Amongst the Low & Empty'' (2023) (single)
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* StartMyOwn: Jacob Toy started the brutal death act Vulgar Mephitis in 2020 and quit to focus on it.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: At 6'2", Dave is the tallest member of the band, while Mike is also fairly tall and Jeff is of average height, and Bobby is quite short.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* HumansAreBastards[=/=]KillEmAll: "Final Phase".

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* HumansAreBastards[=/=]KillEmAll: HumansAreBastards: "Final Phase".
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* InNameOnly: Technically true, as none of the original lineup is currently in the band at this point, but Bobby Crow has been around for so long (having joined as a guitarist back when they were still primarily jamming in their practice space) that he may as well have been a founder.
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* ''Unbridled'' (2022) (single)
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* AscendedExtra: Dave Simonich was a longtime friend of the band whose band (Improvidence) had played many early shows with Signs and was an easy choice for both a fill-in and a new vocalist. Jeff Russo, meanwhile, was Dave's old Improvidence bandmate and a longtime friend who was originally going to be a fill-in for a cancelled tour in 2020, then wound up being asked to join as a full member at the very beginning of 2021 and would go on to write ''Absolvere'' with Bobby and Dave after having proven himself with "The Collection".

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* AscendedExtra: Dave Simonich was a longtime friend of the band whose band (Improvidence) had played many early shows with Signs and was an easy choice for both a fill-in and a new vocalist. Jeff Russo, meanwhile, was Dave's old Improvidence bandmate and a longtime friend who was originally going to be a fill-in for a cancelled tour in 2020, then wound up being asked to join as a full member at the very beginning of 2021 and would go on to write ''Absolvere'' with Bobby and Dave after having proven himself with "The Collection". Lastly, Michael Cassese started off as their touring bassist for the ''Absolvere'' cycle, then was made full-time in June of 2022.
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* {{Deathcore}}: Along with Music/{{Ingested}}, Vulvodynia, and Within Destruction, they are the most well-known faces of the slam/deathcore hybrid sound that emerged in the 2010s, and of those, they are probably the furthest along the deathcore spectrum. They went in more of a retro brutal deathcore direction on ''Vital Deprivation''.

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* {{Deathcore}}: Along with Music/{{Ingested}}, Vulvodynia, Music/{{Vulvodynia}}, and Within Destruction, they are the most well-known faces of the slam/deathcore hybrid sound that emerged in the 2010s, and of those, they are probably the furthest along the deathcore spectrum. They went in more of a retro brutal deathcore direction on ''Vital Deprivation''.
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* AbsenteeActor: Jimmy Pino was this up for a while until he quit completely, first because of his day job and then because he quickly tired of touring and was happier playing in his church band.

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* VocalEvolution: When Dave first started, his lows were a tunnel throat bellow and he generally emulated CJ's style, but he gradually shifted to them something much closer to a slam gurgle, while his highs also became lower and more squawk-like, and his mids turned into his distinctive strangled bark.

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* VocalEvolution: Dave Simonich has gone through multiple vocal styles in the band:
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When Dave he first started, his lows were filled in and later joined in 2018, he used a tunnel throat bellow and he generally emulated CJ's style, but he gradually shifted to them something much closer to a slam gurgle, while CJ stylistically, with the main difference being his highs also became lower and more squawk-like, squawk-like highs.
** Starting with their first headlining tour in 2019, Dave had shifted to a gurgly, phlegmy bellow heavily influenced by slam gurgles, which he carried over onto ''Vital Deprivation''.
** On "Pernicious", Dave moved to something in between the two styles, with a strangled, gurgly lower mid-range bark closer to his early vocals. This was carried over to ''Absolvere'',
and his mids turned into his distinctive strangled bark.so far appears to be the style he has finally settled on.

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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Hard 10 to 11 for their entire career.



* WeUsedToBeFriends: CJ. The band disavowed all association with him after his [[WhamEpisode firing from Lorna Shore]], and Bobby Crow would later go on record to state that being in a band with him was a deeply unpleasant experience marked by innumerable instances of selfish or inconsiderate behavior from him that always resulted in insincere apologies that never stuck, and that the tension between CJ and roughly half the band had reached a point where there was a solid chance that they would have either broken up or had a massive lineup change had CJ not quit.

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* WeUsedToBeFriends: CJ. The band disavowed all association with him after his [[WhamEpisode firing from Lorna Shore]], and Bobby Crow would later go on record to state that being in a band with him was a deeply unpleasant experience marked by innumerable instances of selfish or inconsiderate behavior from him that always resulted in insincere apologies that never stuck, and that the tension between CJ and roughly half the band had reached a point where there was a solid chance that they would have either broken up or had a massive lineup change had CJ not quit.quit.

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* GenreThrowback: "Malevolent Enslavement" was, as per WordOfGod, written in the style of 2000s brutal deathcore as a tribute to acts like early Whitechapel and Impending Doom, complete with a more raw production style that was intended to emulate many of the low-budget [=MySpace=]-era demos and cover artwork that was intended to look like it was made with cheap or pirated graphic design software like many of the covers from that era for smaller acts were.

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* GenreThrowback: "Malevolent Enslavement" was, as per WordOfGod, written in the style of 2000s brutal deathcore as a tribute to acts like early Whitechapel and Impending Doom, complete with a more raw rawer production style that was intended to emulate many of the low-budget [=MySpace=]-era demos and cover artwork that was intended to look like it was made with cheap or pirated graphic design software like many of the covers from that era for smaller acts were.


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* LoudnessWar: Deliberatley {{Invoked}} for "Malevolent Enslavement". See GenreThrowback above.
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* SpecialGuest: Chris Gonzalez, Dickie Allen (Infant Annihilator), Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, ex-Lorna Shore), Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan), Nick Arthur (Molotov Solution), [[Music/DespisedIcon Alex Erian]], and [[Music/ShadowOfIntent Ben Duerr]] have served as guest vocalists, and this is what Dave Simonich started as before being inducted in full-time. Matt Krawchuk (ex-Suffokate), meanwhile, was strictly a fill-in, as Dave Simonich didn't have a passport at the time and they needed someone to handle the Canadian dates until they got back into the US.

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* SpecialGuest: Chris Gonzalez, [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen (Infant Annihilator), Allen]], Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin, ex-Lorna Shore), Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan), Nick Arthur (Molotov Solution), [[Music/DespisedIcon Alex Erian]], and [[Music/ShadowOfIntent Ben Duerr]] have served as guest vocalists, and this is what Dave Simonich started as before being inducted in full-time. Matt Krawchuk (ex-Suffokate), meanwhile, was strictly a fill-in, as Dave Simonich didn't have a passport at the time and they needed someone to handle the Canadian dates until they got back into the US.
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** ''Absolvere'' has prominent dissonant death metal elements and almost entirely excises the slam elements, in addition to featuring clean vocals on several tracks.
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: They stopped having a consistent live bassist in mid-2018 once Jimmy's touring became more selective and stopped having one entirely in 2019 once he quit and used backing tracks after that (as Bobby moved back to drums), and it wasn't until 2021 when Jacob Toy moved to bass that they finally had a dedicated bassist again.

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** ''Absolvere'' has prominent dissonant death metal and extreme djent elements and almost entirely excises the slam elements, in addition to featuring clean vocals on several tracks.
tracks. As per Dave, much of this was due to the change in songwriting dynamics; on previous albums, Bobby, Jacob, and Cory would write songs on their own and then present them to the rest of the band to make edits to before calling them complete, but with Cory much less present and Jacob almost completely out of the picture, Bobby, Dave, and Jeff took to writing collaboratively instead.
* NobodyLovesTheBassist: They stopped having a consistent live bassist in mid-2018 once Jimmy's touring became more selective and stopped having one entirely in 2019 once he quit and used backing tracks after that (as Bobby moved back to drums), and it wasn't until 2021 when Jacob Toy moved to bass that they finally had a dedicated bassist again.again, though he was effectively done by the time ''Absolvere'' was recorded and Michael Cassese had already signed on as their live bassist.
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!!TROPES OF PUNISHMENT COME TO STERILIZE A FUCKING DISGUSTING PLACE!:

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!!TROPES OF PUNISHMENT COME TO STERILIZE A FUCKING DISGUSTING PLACE!:!!I AM THE TROPE THAT WILL HAUNT YOU ALL!:
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* BigBrotherMentor: Dave is this to Devin Duarte (aka Devin to Embers), who started as a young fan who hit Dave up online, became a good friend of his, and gradually became a protege who became the only person who Dave ever gave vocal lessons to (as well as music business advice), and when he began to look to take Worm Shepherd out on the road, Dave gave him the opportunity to tour with Signs to kick it off.

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** ''Absolvere'' has prominent dissonant death metal elements and almost entirely excises the slam elements, in addition to featuring clean vocals on several tracks.



* SopranoAndGravel: Clean vocals are used in "Death Whistle".

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* SopranoAndGravel: Clean They introduced clean vocals are used in "Death Whistle".on ''Absolvere''.
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* SopranoAndGravel: Clean vocals are used in "Death Whistle".
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* OminousMusicBoxTune: Used in "Nightcrawlers".
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* AscendedExtra: Dave Simonich was a longtime friend of the band whose band (Improvidence) had played many early shows with Signs and was an easy choice for both a fill-in and a new vocalist. Jeff Russo, meanwhile, was Dave's old Improvidence bandmate and a longtime friend who was originally going to be a fill-in for a cancelled tour in 2020, then wound up being asked to join as a full member at the very beginning of 2021.

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* AscendedExtra: Dave Simonich was a longtime friend of the band whose band (Improvidence) had played many early shows with Signs and was an easy choice for both a fill-in and a new vocalist. Jeff Russo, meanwhile, was Dave's old Improvidence bandmate and a longtime friend who was originally going to be a fill-in for a cancelled tour in 2020, then wound up being asked to join as a full member at the very beginning of 2021.2021 and would go on to write ''Absolvere'' with Bobby and Dave after having proven himself with "The Collection".
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* IdenticalStranger: Cory Smarsh bears a substantial resemblance to [[Music/RiversOfNihil Jake Dieffenbach]], which he is quite aware of and has apparently had pointed out many times.



* PintsizedPowerhouse: Cory Smarsh.
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* VocalEvolution: When Dave first started, his lows were a tunnel throat bellow and he generally emulated CJ's style, but he gradually shifted to them something much closer to a slam gurgle, while his highs also became lower and more squawk-like.

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* VocalEvolution: When Dave first started, his lows were a tunnel throat bellow and he generally emulated CJ's style, but he gradually shifted to them something much closer to a slam gurgle, while his highs also became lower and more squawk-like.squawk-like, and his mids turned into his distinctive strangled bark.

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