Love Turns Hate on quite a run

If there was ever an emo-sounding band name or song title, Love Turns Hate would be it. However, that’s apparently not the case with the

local group — Jimmi Migliozzi (vocals), Tony Young (guitars), Brady Brownlee (guitars), Don Kacenski (bass) and Leif Damstoft (drums) — that recently released its self-titled debut CD.

“We’re by far not emo,” said Migliozzi, a Niles native who calls Howland home. “We’re the furthest thing from it. It’s just the passion in the music; that’s where that comes from. It’s extreme goods and extreme bads.”

So if not emo, the band name really seems like someone was unlucky in love.

“Yeah, a lot of material on this album was through a dark time in my life,” Migliozzi said.

“Actually, one of the song titles was ‘Let Love Die.’ That’s a name that came up as a possible band name, and later we thought it was too dark. So we played on the word love, and hence Love Turns Hate.”

With a rock-radio-friendly sound compared to the likes of Papa Roach, Seether and Shinedown, Love Turns Hate is on quite a run.

Read about it in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.