End Of Us, the debut album from TX2, arrived February 13, 2026 via Hopeless Records as a 13-track rock opera about “The Resistance,” a band of survivors fighting through a vampire apocalypse. Frontman Timothy Evan Thomas describes the sound as “punk meets vampire-core with an Eminem edge,” Kerrang! scored it 4 out of 5, and it landed with the project at 1 million monthly Spotify listeners. It is the most ambitious swing anyone in the current emo revival has taken at the front-to-back concept record.
Ambitious, and knowingly doomed. “The album is a concept that ends in flames and sadness,” Thomas told Kerrang! ahead of release. “In the album, these characters are fighting against odds they know they’re going to lose: but at least they stood up.”
What is End Of Us actually about?
The record follows The Resistance from the opener “Feed,” featuring DeathbyRomy, through 13 tracks of survival, betrayal and last stands: “REJECT VAMPIRISM,” “HOSTAGE (they will not erase us),” “The Resistance,” “6 Shots Left,” “Murder Scene” with Magnolia Park, all the way to the six-minute closing title track with Black Veil Brides. The vampire mythology is not new for TX2, it has been threaded through the catalog since “Vampire By Rumor” on 2022’s Drop Dead EP, and the whole visual world leans on survival-horror cues that Thomas co-directs with guitarist Cam Rostami.
The apocalypse is also a frame for the real subject matter. Thomas has said the record carries his political anger directly, referencing calling out “the ruling class” on “The Resistance,” and “HOSTAGE” has reportedly become a queer anthem in support of the trans community. The monsters are fictional. The odds are not.
Where does the rock-opera instinct come from?
Kerrang! framed the album’s lineage through Green Day’s American Idiot and My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade, and that is not critic’s shorthand, it is literal biography: those were the first albums Thomas bought as a bullied kid in Fort Collins, Colorado. “All of that led me into darker music where I just appreciated darker things,” he told the Miami New Times back in 2022. He names My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Black Veil Brides and Linkin Park as the load-bearing influences on the album’s sound, and he had already rehearsed the concept-record format on 2023’s Ghost of LA EP, a fictionalized narrative built from his own move to Los Angeles.
The kid who escaped into American Idiot grew up and wrote himself an apocalypse to stand up in.
The features map the whole come-up
Read the guest list and you can reconstruct TX2’s career: DeathbyRomy, Ekoh and Magnolia Park from the 2025 single run, an instrumental of “M.A.D.” carrying Ice Nine Kills’ Spencer Charnas, the mentor who took TX2 on the road first, and Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides on the finale, months before TX2 joined BVB’s 24-city North American arena tour as direct support. Of that closer, Thomas said: “‘The End of Us’ is the darkest song I’ve ever written... I said ‘fuck it’ and wanted to make a six-minute epic.”
How was it received?
Predictably for the most argued-about act in the scene, the reviews split. Kerrang! gave it 4/5 and called it the sound of “an artist refusing to shrink himself.” GBHBL scored it 8/10. Distorted Sound landed at 6/10, and Noizze UK panned it outright. The commercial picture was less ambiguous: release day found the pre-album singles past 100 million cumulative streams with 42 million TikTok likes across the previous 12 months, per Music Junkie Press.
The opera did not stop at the album. The 2026 singles “Eat My Heart,” “Prescription For Love,” “Confession,” “Pickup Truck” and July’s “Evil Is Contagious” have kept the era rolling, and the live show has carried the story from a February US headline run through Black Veil Brides arenas to Download Festival and Rock am Ring. A March 2027 UK headline tour, which Thomas calls his biggest there to date, is already announced. For a record that ends in flames and sadness, End Of Us is doing a remarkable amount of living.