Moss Icon

Biography

Moss Icon is an American post-hardcore band from Annapolis, Maryland. The band consists of singer Jonathan Vance, guitarist Tonie Joy, bassist Monica DiGialleornado, and drummer Mark Laurence. In 1990, Alex Badertsher joined the lineup as second guitarist. The band is categorized as emo, although it denies having contributed to the genre. The band is particularly noted by its contemporaries for its transition from noise to silence, and for Vance's esoteric and conscious lyrics. The band's early output is mainly Joy Division-oriented, while their later songs will be more riff-focused.