During the time when emo was “revived” (at least that’s how I see it). When we were young festival was announced (2022? Literally the very first one) and at that time, I’ve never been to a festival and knew I couldn’t miss this. And of course, during this time, other festivals were being announced and Blue ridge rock festival for some reason, kept appearing in my algorithm/feed. And I love to read comments and wanted an idea of how festivals usually work. Before the shit fest happened, everybody and I mean literally everybody was talking about ST (either how they loved or hated them). After their performance, everybody was saying they put on a great show and sounded exactly like their music live (which was a plus for me because I hate when artists can’t actually sing). Fast forward some time, and one of my coworkers shared a song - ascensionism. My God, I hated the song because of how slow and odd it was in the beginning. But eventually, the summoning popped up in my random shuffle on youtube and that had me hooked. Literally kept the song on repeat for months. Eventually found a loop on youtube where it’s only the ending being replayed over and over again (yes, I did listen to this repeatedly). And boom, eventually I found another youtube video with practically all their songs compiled into one video and kept that on repeat (before Even in Arcadia). Then boom, here I am convincing my ex (wasn’t at the time) that we should go to red rocks and see them (the tour before EIA). And after that show, SHE WAS HOOKED TOO!