Hardcore punk's past and present share a stage Monday night when Agnostic Front and Angel Du$t co-headline Conduit in Winter Park, with the show starting at 6 p.m. and tickets priced at $30. Orlando's own Watts and Jacksonville's Step 2 This round out the bill, giving Central Florida hardcore fans a lineup that spans four decades of the genre's evolution.
The show at Orlando Weekly reports is part of an 11-date fall East Coast co-headlining tour that Agnostic Front and Angel Du$t launched on September 27 in Richmond, Virginia, according to NextMosh. Jacksonville's Step 2 This has been providing opening support across most dates on the run, the outlet notes. Conduit itself sits at 6700 Aloma Ave. in Winter Park, the address the venue has occupied since opening in January 2023.
Agnostic Front needs little introduction for anyone who has followed New York hardcore's history. Formed in New York City in 1980 by guitarist Vinnie Stigma, the band released its landmark debut album, *Victim in Pain*, in 1984 on Rat Cage Records, per Wikipedia's entry on the group, and is widely credited with shaping the sound and ethos of the New York hardcore scene. The multi-decade friendship between Stigma and fellow co-founder Roger Miret was documented in Ian McFarland's 2017 film *The Godfathers of Hardcore*, which premiered at DOC NYC before airing on Showtime.
Angel Du$t's Genre-Bending Evolution
Angel Du$t represents a very different, though equally influential, branch of hardcore's family tree. Frontman Justice Tripp originally conceived the band in 2013 with the idea of taking 1980s-style pop-rock song structure and playing it with the speed and aggression of hardcore punk, as Wikipedia's account of the band details. Tripp, who also fronted the Baltimore hardcore group Trapped Under Ice, has described the project as a deliberate bridge between melodic sensibility and heavier roots, a blend Consequence has chronicled across the band's catalog.
The band's 2023 album *Brand New Soul*, released via Pop Wig Records, marked the first full-length record that Tripp produced entirely himself, and featured guest contributions from members of Turnstile and Citizen, according to BrooklynVegan's coverage of the release. Angel Du$t followed that up in February 2026 with its sixth studio album, *COLD 2 THE TOUCH*, after signing with Run for Cover Records, per Wikipedia. The band previously released music through Roadrunner Records and Pop Wig Records before that latest move.
Florida's Rising Hardcore Acts Get a Big Stage
Opening the night is Watts, an Orlando band formed by local high school and college friends. The group earned Orlando Weekly's Best Debut Album of 2024 honor for its *Retribution* EP before releasing a follow-up EP, *Slowly Conditioned*, on Armageddon Records in June 2025. The Gen-Z hardcore outfit shares members with local band 0 Miles Per Hour, according to the paper's reporting.
Co-opener Step 2 This is a Jacksonville hardcore group that only played its debut gig in January 2026, releasing *The First Step* demo through Armageddon Records that same month. The band has quickly earned support slots alongside major touring hardcore acts, according to In Effect Hardcore's coverage of the fast-rising act's ascent.
Conduit's Role in Central Florida's Heavy Music Scene
Conduit opened in January 2023, taking over the space long occupied by heavy-metal bar The Haven Lounge and reconfiguring it into a 350-capacity concert room with a 16-by-24-foot stage, according to Hoodline's earlier coverage of the venue. The space is redesigned to operate exclusively on show nights, a layout that has made it a go-to room for touring heavy acts passing through Central Florida.
The venue is co-owned and operated by a partnership of veteran Florida music figures, including Pete Olen of Endoxa Booking, Will Walker of Will's Pub, and Jerry Dufrain of Tampa's Orpheum, per Orlando Weekly's original profile of the venue. That booking coalition, which combines decades of venue management experience across Central and West Florida, has consistently drawn major national heavy music acts to Winter Park since Conduit's opening.
Pairing national headliners like Agnostic Front and Angel Du$t with homegrown Florida support acts reflects a recurring booking model at the venue, one that has repeatedly put Orlando and Jacksonville bands on the same stage as touring veterans. Monday's bill, bridging the genre's 1980s New York blueprint with its more melodic modern expansions, offers a snapshot of hardcore's generational continuity inside one of Orlando's most influential independent rooms.
