Birmingham, Alabama’s Haste formed in 1995 and released three albums – 1999’s Pursuit in the Face of Consequence, 2001’s When Reason Sleeps, and 2003’s The Mercury Lift – before calling it quits in 2007. Their music existed somewhere between post-hardcore, metalcore, and emo, and by The Mercury Lift, they brought in a little of the atmospheric Quicksand/Hum influence that really started to infiltrate post-hardcore a decade later.

Andrew Sacher