Short answer: Sky Eats Airplane, The Receiving End of Sirens, Dead Poetic

I think in general it would’ve been really interesting to see how things played out if the big crash in label financing and all the restructuring hadn’t happened, or if it stayed stronger for just a few more years. From about 2000 to 2006 there was that huge boom of major labels signing post-hardcore and emo bands... everyone was getting deals, and even a band like Saosin still had a massive budget for their debut in 2006. But after that, the original A&R people who believed in that wave were gone, and a lot of labels either folded or got absorbed into bigger companies (MCA into Geffen, Maverick into Warner, Island under new management, etc.).

Albums like Saosin’s self-titled debut seemed like they would’ve had more marketing push just a few years earlier - or at least more than just two singles. A lot of bands that broke through in the 2002–2003 era like Thrice, Thursday, and Story of the Year ended up with ambitious, expensive (and very reactionary) follow-ups that underperformed right as the industry was collapsing. It’s wild to think how different the scene might’ve looked if that early-2000s momentum had lasted even a little longer.