No Echo recently featured Michigan-based xPersistx. Vocalist Seth Sprague relates his passion for hardcore and desire to contribute back to the scene. xPersistx is influenced by bands like xRepresentx, xTyrantx, Until the End, Terror, and Inclination. Their latest EP, ‘1 Life 2 Decades,’ dropped in December of 2023 and hopes to ‘evoke the fun of mid-00’s tough-guy hardcore but with the perspective of 2024’ – xPersistx.