Volumes hit like a band that has been through something — because they have. The Los Angeles progressive metalcore group lost founding guitarist Diego Farias in 2020, cycled through lineup changes, and watched frontman Michael Barr walk away for five years before coming back. What emerged on the other side is Mirror Touch, their fifth album and the record that defines what they are now: djent-rooted, dual-vocal, built around the kind of breakdown that doesn’t apologize.
About the Show
Formed in Los Angeles in 2009, Volumes were among the early practitioners of what became the djent scene: groove-heavy, palm-muted riffage sitting between progressive metal and something harder to categorize. Their catalog runs through five studio albums — Via (2011), No Sleep (2014), Different Animals (2017), Happier? (2021), and Mirror Touch, which dropped December 12, 2025, on Fearless Records with physical copies following February 27, 2026. AllMusic pegs their signature as “punishing breakdowns and tense melodic riffage, with nu-metal flourishes,” a fair description of what dual vocalists Michael Barr and Myke Terry do to a room.
Barr left the band for five years before returning for Happier? in 2021. Raad Soudani (bass), the one member who has been there through every lineup change, anchors the rhythm section alongside drummer Nick Ursich. The loss of Diego Farias in 2020 shadowed the rebuild. Mirror Touch feels like the record made after working through that.
The single “S.O.A.P.” runs industrial textures under what the band called “brutal breakdowns and a modern production style.” Volumes’ own framing of the song: “about pure and impure indulgence. Good versus evil. Playing with fire or magic — the lines are blurred here.” The record closes with “Suffer On,” featuring Black Sheep Wall. Across their catalog, the band has logged over 167 million U.S. streams and collaborated with Dance Gavin Dance and Ice Nine Kills.
The fall 2026 Mirror Touch Tour leg finds the band five stops into an 18-date run (they ran a March leg from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas earlier this year). Until I Wake, Catsclaw, and Tim The Truth are on the bill in Buffalo. The run includes a slot at Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville before pushing into the Southeast.
Venue & Logistics
Buffalo Iron Works on 49 Illinois St is a fixture of the western New York heavy scene, 500 capacity. Close quarters for a band with nine-figure U.S. stream counts, and that’s exactly the point. Show is 16-plus. Doors at 6 p.m.; set starts at 7. Photo City Music Hall is promoting.
Tickets
Tickets are $28. Three supporting acts on the bill for that number — hard to argue with. Buy tickets