Roaring out of Columbus, Ohio, Rats Into Robots were a screamo band active in the early 2000s. Their sound is a calamitous blast of screamo\hardcore buffered by long passages of eerie ambience. They're too melodic to be emoviolence, but they sure come close sometimes. This is aggressive, atonal screamo that's an assault on the senses, and I mean that in the best way. The album art does a great job of capturing the album's mood. Also, judging by the album title and at least one of the songs, someone in the band is a big fan of Dune.
The band doesn't have much of a discography. Their first release was a split with Textbook Traitors in 2003, followed by the 2004 album A Column of Smoke By Day, a Pillar of Fire By Night. That same year the band also contributed a track to the The Microwave Says To The Pacemaker compilation, which is a great bit of collected screamo.
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