Wounded Touch lead a five-band metalcore bill at the Green Door on Dec. 12

The Detroit metalcore band brings Blistered Spirit, Scrap Ritual, The Divide and Armor Class to East Michigan Avenue for $15.

The Green Door made its name as a blues bar. On Saturday, Dec. 12, it gets something a lot heavier: Wounded Touch headline a five-band bill at the Green Door at 8 p.m., with Blistered Spirit, Scrap Ritual, The Divide and Armor Class in support. Tickets are $15 through Prekindle. The show was announced Oct. 27.

Wounded Touch are a Detroit band that came together, as No Echo tells it, from the rubble of several Michigan bands, among them Sunlight Ascending, Steamroller and Sunlight's Bane. Their debut EP, *From Day 0 Forward*, came out on Smartpunk Records and leaned toward sludgy, heavy hardcore. Since then they've drifted into the more technical end of metalcore and mathcore without losing that hardcore core.

The catalog has grown steadily. *AMERICANXIETY* arrived in 2022, and Distorted Sound called them a metallic hardcore band at heart that doesn't stick to genre boxes. In 2024 they shared a split EP, *Traumatic Entanglement*, with FallFiftyFeet, and BrooklynVegan called the pair two of the best newer metalcore and mathcore bands around. *A Vivid Depiction of Collapse* followed in May 2025, which Heavy Blog Is Heavy rated top-tier modern metalcore. This year, the band started a series of EPs with the three-song *They Promised Eden (Vol. 1)* on Smartpunk, per Scene Point Blank.

That's a band with momentum, and a bill this deep at $15 is the kind of night Michigan's heavy scene runs on: five bands, one cover, a long evening of noise.

The room is part of the story. The Green Door sits at 2005 E. Michigan Ave., and it has been a Lansing staple for a long time; Model D wrote years ago about how it had survived decades on commitment to its regulars and good entertainment. Its own pitch, on listings like Tripadvisor, is live music most nights, from blues, funk and soul to classic rock, bluegrass and roots, plus comedy. City Pulse has noted that the bar has taken on a more eclectic vibe beyond its blues roots, and readers there have voted it best dance bar and best music venue. A metalcore show fits that widening lineup, and it brings a different crowd through the door.

Five bands, one cover, a long evening of noise.

The full calendar lives at greendoorlive.com. With five bands on the bill and an 8 p.m. start, plan on a late one, and plan to get there early enough to see the openers; nights like this are where you find the next band you'll be telling people about.

Bring $15 and your loudest friend.

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