Title Fight Reunite (For Acoustic Wedding Performance)

The Title Fight reunion already happened, and you missed it. Title Fight, the Pennsylvania post-hardcore greats, played their last show in 2018. They never announced a breakup or a hiatus, but they've also ignored the louder and louder calls to get back together and play some more shows. In the eight years since Title Fight went away, their legend has grown to absurd proportions. They do huge streaming numbers, and bands like Haywire get crazy reactions when they cover Title Fight. Just last week, the metalcore band Static Dress briefly faked out the crowd by teasing a Title Fight reunion at Manchester's Outbreak Fest. A few days later, the real Title Fight played a little quasi-reunion across the ocean, with nobody but friends and family in attendance.

Over the weekend, Title Fight drummer Ben Russin, now a member of Citizen, got married, and his bandmates reassembled for a brief acoustic performance at the wedding. Ben's brother Ned now leads Glitterer, which has become a full band after starting as a solo project. For the big occasion, Ned got together with Shane Moran and Jamie Rhoden, and the three of them covered a song from hardcore legend Walter Schreifels.

Schreifels, the guy who produced Title Fight's full-length debut Shed, founded the short-lived band World's Fastest Car in between Quicksand's breakup and Rival Schools' formation. They apparently made a record, but it never came out because the band broke up. A demo version of their song "Requiem" exists online. Later on, Schreifels included a version on his 2010 solo album An Open Letter To The Scene. Three of the four Title Fight members covered that song at the fourth guy's wedding. Within fan circles, short videos of the performance quickly went viral; see the original clips for yourself below.

Ben and Ned Russin's older brother Alex is still in the great Wilkes-Barre hardcore band Cold World, and he performed at the wedding, too. He and Jamie Rhoden played an acoustic cover of the Oasis classic "Slide Away."

The Title Fight subreddit is now full of wedding photos, and everyone looks fantastic. There's something so beautiful about these guys just doing this reunion for themselves and nobody else, like the stories of Fugazi getting together and practicing in basements when they're all back in DC. Not everything has to be a spectacle, you know?