Brand New and Taking Back Sunday are pop-rock bands, brand new especially isn't punk. I don't know how anyone whos heard Deja Entendu and the Fight Off Your Demons demos would say that. They've definetly changed sound for the better and have strayed really far from being similar to Takinbg Back Sunday and half the fans who consider TBS/Brand New punk also consider the used screamo and my chemical romance emo.
I find it really weird you'd consider some of the misfits stuff hardcore yet black flag punk. Which Misfits stuff is hardcore?
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