Origin Brooklyn, New York, United States Genres Punk rock indie rock pop punk melodic hardcore post-hardcore emo Years active 2004–present I Am the Avalanche is an American Emo band from Brooklyn, New York. The group's name comes from a lyric written by Vinnie Caruana for a song which was later discarded. The phrase also appears in the poem "Oh, Immobility, Death's Vast Associate" by Stephen Dobyns; however, Caruana maintains that this is a coincidence, and that he was not aware of the poem until after naming the band.