What's In Store - Waiting
Album Track • How Did We Get Here? (2026). Nottingham, England, UK.
Nottingham Rock Project Turns Pop-Punk Roots into a Heavier Digital Future
Based in Nottingham, England, What’s In Store represents the latest evolution of a project that began under the stonefish moniker in 2023 with pop-punk at its foundations. Rather than remaining tied to that starting point, the project has expanded into a considerably heavier collision of alternative rock, metalcore and synthetic production, pairing loud guitars, punchy drums and driven bass with layers of electronic noise. Influenced by the genre-blurring heaviness of Bring Me The Horizon, Beartooth and Linkin Park, What’s In Store uses How Did We Get Here? to establish an identity where technology and traditional rock instrumentation are designed to amplify one another rather than compete.
Epilogue: Closing One Chapter to Make Space for Another
“Epilogue” feels particularly appropriate for a project defined by evolution. Appearing alongside “It’s A War” shortly before How Did We Get Here?, the track functions as part of the transition between What’s In Store’s earlier pop-punk foundations and the denser, more electronically manipulated sound now defining the project. The emphasis is no longer simply on guitars and hooks, but on building a wall of sound in which synthetic textures can carry as much weight as riffs, drums and bass.
That combination gives the music a distinctly contemporary heaviness. Rather than treating electronics as decoration around a conventional rock arrangement, What’s In Store integrates synthetic noise into the architecture of the songs, creating something that connects the emotional accessibility of pop-punk with the scale and aggression associated with modern metalcore.
Why It Matters: Heavy Rock Is Becoming Increasingly Synthetic
The boundaries separating alternative rock, pop-punk, metalcore and electronic music continue to erode. For a generation raised on both guitar music and digitally produced sounds, synthesizers, manipulated textures and electronic production no longer dilute the authenticity of a rock band—they can make the music feel heavier, stranger and more contemporary.
What’s In Store embody that transition particularly clearly because their evolution began with pop-punk itself. How Did We Get Here? doesn't abandon those melodic foundations; it rebuilds them inside a louder and more technologically ambitious framework. The result reflects a wider transformation in modern heavy music: the guitar isn't disappearing, but the sonic world surrounding it is becoming much bigger.
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