Hysteria

BIOGRAPHY

Hysteria is the emotional brainchild of musician Dakota Cosgrove. A band that combines heavy guitars with confrontational female vocals and sharp melodic hooks, Hysteria mines emo influences like Mineral, Jejune, Texas Is the Reason, and Sunny Day Real Estate, pulling from the genre’s deepest corners while pushing out its historic patriarchal center.

Hysteria’s music lives in the space between tension and release, where jagged guitars collapse into sudden moments of sweetness. Their songs move with the urgency of their predecessors but are sharpened by a modern, confrontational edge—shifting from hushed vulnerability to explosive catharsis in a matter of seconds. Melodies linger even as the arrangements burn, creating a sound that feels raw, romantic, and unafraid to take up space.

The Los Angeles four-piece exists in contradictions—gentle silhouettes over loud distortion, glamour beside ruin. Fashion plays a central role, acting as armor, language, and refusal all at once. The name Hysteria reaches back into a history that punished women for feeling too much. Here, emotion is necessity, resistance, and power.

Hysteria is a movement.

We cry. We shout. We swag. We shred.