Keep Austin Revered

Of Mice & Men’s Austin Carlile wrote a transformative new album “Cold World,” that has cemented him as one our community’s purist troubadours.

- Jonah Bayer

Austin Carlile is understandably excited. The frontman for Of Mice & Men is still reeling from the release show for the metalcore act’s fourth full-length Cold War at the Roxy in Los Angeles a few nights ago. “It was unbelievable to see so many people sing along to songs we had already put out like ‘Real’ and ‘Pain’ but it was even crazier to see them know all the words to the other songs which were just released that day,” he says via cell phone as he’s en route to LAX to do it all over again on the East Coast. “It was just a really cool feeling to work on something that hard and then turn around and have your fans immediately sing it back to you.”