Tearing Down
The Masquerade
Alt · Grunge · A Touch of Classic Rock
7:42 PM — Getting Ready
Tonight Could Be The Night
You check the mirror for the third time. Fresh shirt, the good cologne, tickets on the nightstand. They said yes, and they meant it, and in twenty minutes you'll be holding the door open trying to play it cool. Right now the whole night is still a promise, and you intend to keep it.
8:04 PM — you hold the door · they smile · doors in ten
11:15 PM — The Show
Right Now
Is Everything
You're here · they're here · the band is loud enough to forget everything else
You're two drinks in, lights swinging purple and gold, and the band just hit the song you came for. Your date grabs your arm and screams the words back at the stage, and for one verse every stranger in this room is your best friend. You will spend years chasing the way right now feels.
12:38 AM — encore · last call · the part you won't remember starts here
1:47 am — home. alone.
the night didn't
go as planned
shirt's gone. hair's a mess. phone's out. don't do it. you're doing it.
The ride home was quiet. The goodnight was a handshake. Now the room tilts a little, your shirt's somewhere on the floor, and your thumb is hovering over the one name you swore you deleted. Don't. (You're going to.) We've all been there. We wrote a song there.
The Morning After — every mask comes off eventually
The Band
Rip the Mask Off
Tearing Down The Masquerade is about exactly what it sounds like. Everybody spends the day in costume: the work version of you, the polite version, the version your family expects, the one you post online. The masquerade is exhausting and everyone's invited. Our music is the moment you stop dancing along, reach up, and tear the mask off, because whoever's underneath was always better than the disguise.
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana and raised on alt, grunge, and a touch of classic rock, we write loud, honest songs about the nights that make you and the ones that wreck you. In 2026 the Fort Wayne crowd voted us champions of Bandemonium, and our debut full-length album: Live From Kyle's Basement, is out now. No costumes. No characters. Just us.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Out Now
Live From
Kyle's Basement
Debut Album · Released May 30, 2026
Wear the Mask
Then Tear It Off
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