Bringing their run of shows with The Word Alive to a close, Florida-based band Not Enough Space rocked St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, celebrating the anniversary of their debut album Weaponize Your Rage and creating a show that won’t be forgotten.
The whole night was hype from start to finish. Packed with love and support for every set and never-ending mosh-pits, the final night didn’t go quietly. Each band on the bill turned their last song of the set into an open door for chaos, including a special moment when each touring act got up on stage during Codewords’ final song. The crowd was even hosed down with water bottles by the other acts during Downswings’ set, and Not Enough Space got Saran-wrapped together by the other bands mid-song.
It was the perfect night for Not Enough Space, a band whose own sound refuses to sit still. Released in September 2025, Weaponize Your Rage splices deathcore breakdowns and post-hardcore sounds with attention-grabbing choruses; a genre mix that the band leaned into hard after their single “Primitive” first put them on the map. Heavier cuts like the title track and “Devil Left Me On Read” hit hardest live, while “Waiting For You” and “Mayday” swing the record back toward the band’s pop-rock roots.
Before all of that unfolded, Crave sat down with vocalists Liv Mitchell and Lizzie Raatma backstage to talk through the tour, the one-year anniversary of Weaponize Your Rage and where the Orlando quintet goes from here.
CRAVE: For anyone who’s just discovering you, how would you introduce yourselves — your sound, the vibe?
LIV: I would have to say that if I was to introduce Not Enough Space to somebody new, it would be kind of like a revival of the MySpace era meets the before-MySpace metalcore. It’s a good mix of both. So, very early 2000s to 2010, with a bit of a modern twist.
CRAVE: I love that description. I was reading about you guys online, and it sounds like the band name actually came from an offhand comment. Was there ever a point where you thought it wasn’t going to stick?
LIZZIE: With the band name? For a minute, we wanted to change it, but all of the other ideas we had were so crappy. But one of the turning points where I was like, I’m never changing it — one of my friends from the Orlando community, he used to go to Austin’s Coffee a lot. He unfortunately passed away this year, but when he was still alive in 2022, he came up to me and Anthony Martinez from Dark Divine, when he was still in Not Enough Space. He came up to us in the alleyway, and he was like, “Hey, I just wanted to tell you guys, I love Not Enough Space; I love this community so much. I’ve searched my entire life for this, and this is it.” And he was so happy, and he was just like, “I hope one day there’s enough space for you guys.” And I was like, well, we’re never changing it. I’m sorry. It used to be a joke because there wasn’t enough space on stage, but now it’s like, oh, wait, it’s a safe space. It’s a loving space. It’s a space that Eric would have wanted. I love it.
CRAVE: Let’s talk about the album a bit. Weaponize Your Rage jumps from deathcore into pop-punk, pop-rock choruses. Do you guys ever have disagreements about how far you’re willing to go with the genres?
LIV: We definitely have solidified, moving into album two, what we’re going for. Album one, we kind of wanted to play a little bit of the shock value of, you don’t know what you’re getting, and we wanted to almost give people a little bit of whiplash, to be like, we can do a multitude of things. But I’d say our solidified sound is metalcore, not pop-punk. It definitely has deathcore influence, but that would probably be the solidified — yeah. I don’t think we’ve ever disagreed on it. I think we’ve just kind of all known, this is what works, we got to do it.
LIZZIE: We like to stick to our core sound, but then also dabble, and Tristan said it really well the other night. He was like, I just want to make people smile, so it’s not a stank face — he was like, it’s not a stank face where you’re like, ooh, that’s tough — it’s like, oh, I didn’t think that was going to happen next. Yes, and I think that’s really sweet, so I love the way he put that.
CRAVE: I love hearing that in the music too — you can feel that switch, and it’s so pure. We’ve heard the album described as being about transformation through pain. Was there a specific moment that made you realize that’s what you wanted for the album?
LIV: I think when we solidified the title track, so just the song “Weaponize Your Rage,” we were like, this is a really cool concept. And we wanted to play off the fact that rage can be a strength, not a weakness, and anger can be a strength, not a weakness, and that sometimes it’s okay to play into that. So I think we kind of found it — I want to say around the second time we went up to the studio, and we were writing some of the heavier tracks. I think that was around the time we found it.
LIZZIE: It was also post-tour era, too. So we had a lot of new life experiences after that. We had just gotten done with our tour with Attila and Born of Osiris. Now we’re back in the studio; we’re forever changed.
CRAVE: Since you’ve toured with all these people, what’s a big lesson you’ve learned from being out on the road with them?
LIV: I think learning patience, and when it’s okay to slow down sometimes, and to not be so go-go-go-go-go. I think patience has been a really, really big one, because we’re all very eager all the time, and we have to remind ourselves to slow down a little bit and take everything as it comes, versus trying to just jump around, you know what I mean? So I think that’s probably my biggest takeaway is patience.
LIZZIE: Yeah, I think just learning patience.
CRAVE: Going back to the rage for a second — do you see that as a motivating factor, something that pushes you forward?
LIV: We all run off of spite, honestly, all the time. I can say that for everybody in this band — that’s how we function. It’s a huge motivator, when you’re like, oh, you don’t think I can do it? Fuck you, I’m gonna do it.
LIZZIE: I like to hold a grudge.
CRAVE: That’s fair — it clearly gets us places. The one-year anniversary is coming up in September.
LIV: Yes, September 12th.
CRAVE: September 12th, that’s awesome. How do you feel like you’ve grown since dropping the album? What’s changed? How’s the vibe changed?
LIV: I think that we all have hit a point in adulthood where we’re like, okay, this is life, this is what life is, we get to do this together. I think valuing everybody’s alone time, I think valuing the time that we all have together, I think that’s been a really, really big point for everybody as we’ve grown through touring together. Me and all the guys live together, and Lizzie lived by herself — or no, she just got a place with her friends. But now we get to celebrate all of the time that we do get to spend together as a whole. So I think through touring, that’s been a really good one.
CRAVE: Any vibes yet on the second album?
LIV: We haven’t come up with a solidified idea for the album yet. I think we’re just kind of taking everything that inspires us and moving whatever way the universe tells us to go. That’s how we should live life, honestly — and with spite, obviously.
LIZZIE: Maybe “Weaponize Your Spite.”
CRAVE: Yeah, part two.
Not Enough Space is proof rage isn’t something to be ashamed and afraid of, it can be turned into exactly what the band’s name has come to mean: a safe and loving space. Almost a year after the release of Weaponize Your Rage, Liv and Lizzie have grown significantly from the shock value of their debut album into something steadier through what they have learned on the road, the gratitude for the time they have spent together with the band, and a nice, healthy dose of spite keeping them pushing on.
Whatever they may bring us in album two, we know one thing for sure: their rage is certainly not going anywhere, and neither is the community that has grown with and around them.
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