They say you have your entire life to write your first record, and only months to complete your second. But for Spark Of Life, the malleable post-hardcore band that formed in the suburbs of Los Angeles almost 25 years ago, this life has been anything but predictable.

In their original formation, the band—comprised of various musicians over the years, but always centered around the songwriting nucleus of singer Steve Jennings and guitarist Nicholas Piscitello—found themselves an outlier in the pre-social media, pre-everything-at-your-fingertips world of punk rock in the early ‘00s. It was here that Spark Of Life first honed a sound—and a fanbase—that leaned more melodic than the hardcore set, and proved far weightier than what was happening in the world of melodic pop-punk.

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