Justin didn’t waste time dressing it up — he reached out saying the band wanted “real growth,” something you could actually hear rather than hope for.
That set the tone before I even pressed play. Result Of a Cycle Unbroken landed on November 10th, and the way he talked about it made it clear this wasn’t a second pass at the same blueprint but an attempt to pull harder on the threads they started with For Who We Used To Be.
He explained that they “took everything we loved about the six songs from our first EP and pushed it further,” and that idea runs through all three tracks — not bigger in the usual scene sense, just more dialed-in.
They stripped away anything that felt like settling. He said they challenged themselves “to dig deeper; to bring out even more emotion, melody, and energy, and to create a stronger overall atmosphere.” Nothing in the new material feels ornamental. It’s the same sound, tightened and carried into heavier corners.
Lyrically, the shift hits even harder. Justin described these as “some of our most personal and intense yet,” circling anger, resentment, and the long tail of fractured family relationships.
There’s no cryptic packaging around it — Tyler stuck to a consistent thread so each track has its own tone but still connects. That continuity gives the EP a quiet structure under all the weight, the kind you only notice after a few listens.
The band still treats this as the hardcore they “love and grew up on,” and Justin was direct about not wanting to see that fade. That’s the root of the whole thing — pushing forward without trading away the shape of the music they started with.
He called the result “heavy, powerful, and raw,” a natural extension of the first release but with “more intensity and intention behind every note.” That description actually matches what you hear; it’s not sales talk.
The other concrete piece is momentum. The EP dropped on all platforms November 10th, and Petalpusher plan to “hit shows as hard as we can.”
It’s less a rollout and more a continuation — the same band, same lane, just sharper edges and more clarity in what they’re trying to say.
