Calgary, AB

While Mire may not (yet) be a known quantity for fans of heavy music in Western Canada, their pedigree, including Mortality Rate, Kali and Open Letters, certainly makes a strong case for their eventual domination. In all honesty, even if we dropped those name drops altogether, the punishing and chaotic hardcore blasts would be enough to have every other band in the scene needing to whip themselves into shape post-haste.