Caskets

Caskets are a Leeds post-hardcore and alternative metal band that began under the name Captives before adopting their current name in 2021. The Ghost Like You EP and the debut album Lost Souls introduced a sound built around Matthew Flood's clean, emotionally heightened vocals, wide-screen guitar ambience, and choruses that sit between modern metalcore and radio-ready alternative rock. Reflections and The Only Heaven You'll Know continued to refine that balance, adding heavier production and more confident dynamics without abandoning the melodic center. Caskets often use heaviness as atmosphere rather than constant attack: low guitar weight and big drum hits frame songs about grief, instability, isolation, and self-repair, while the vocals remain clear enough to make the lyrics feel immediate. Their music fits metal-adjacent scope because the riffs and breakdowns carry genuine force, but the band's identity depends equally on post-hardcore uplift and polished alternative rock architecture. Caskets' strongest material works when the huge choruses feel earned by the darker verses around them, making catharsis the main instrument for release.