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Wamsutta posted:you truly love to see it. they have another gear live that a lot of bands can't find 500 kids in a cramped venue in Kitchener - Vincent was spraying water nearly every song trying to cool everyone off. 10/10 great guy. Escuela Grind ruled too and Fit For an Autopsy was bonkers. I can post more photos if you guys want!
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Slotducks posted:I can post more photos if you guys want! yeah bud do it up, it must be awesome getting to shoot shows for bands you love 
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I know I bang this drum a lot, but my boys in Grayscale Season just sent me an early mix of their new album and I'm loving stoked for y'all to hear it! I feel like they're really figuring out ~their sound~
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Wamsutta posted:i would not be too terribly surprised if TAS call it quits before long. vincent is 40, how long does he want to tour out of a van. replacing a drummer after 18 years is a bitch. devin and griffin have kids now. recon mike only just joined the band, poor bastard, lol. the It Comes In Waves/Failure Will Follow pairing seems like what the band wants to be doing and they put out Slow Decay and Step Into The Light as the "dayjob" albums (not that they're not good, they rule). who knows. sure am glad i have better lovers now with ETID gone and (possibly) TAS winding down It's funny, I feel the opposite — from Vincent's IG and the PR surrounding their new albums, it seems they've found a really solid groove as a band (despite losing their drummer just now) and could continue for many years.
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that better lovers band is garbage. truly worse than the sum of their parts unfortunately. anecdotally, most of my IRL metal/core friends all disagree on a "base" style (eg. i like deathcore, another friend likes black metal, another friend likes straight up metalcore) but we all always aligned on ETID. but nobody i know gives a poo poo about this new band. for me, i never liked greg as a vocalist. so i think his sound detracts from the etid style music. but it's also the fact that they're just playing etid style music with a new singer and not doing something unique. i almost feel like i would prefer that they kept the name except i know that's probably objectively the wrong decision for multiple reasons. wish i could get stoked on it but i can't.
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I obvs don’t agree it’s garbage (I think it rules) but I absolutely understand the specific critiques Would I prefer Keith on these songs? Yes, absolutely unequivocally, lol But I think Greg fits this sound really well
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You want to talk about garbage watch this holy gently caress lmao. What the gently caress happened. They have been declining steadily for a while but this is Parkway Drive tier “pleeeeaasssseeee play us on the radio” poo poo https://youtu.be/ZdpXgO1nPwU Straight up Octanecore jfc Wamsutta fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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Wamsutta posted:You want to talk about garbage watch this holy gently caress lmao. What the gently caress happened. They have been declining steadily for a while but this is Parkway Drive tier “pleeeeaasssseeee play us on the radio” poo poo I think at this point, you can just pencil in almost every band of this caliber going this route after awhile. People got families, mouths to feed, and are getting older.
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God the SiriusXM Octane channel is such trash
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Wamsutta posted:You want to talk about garbage watch this holy gently caress lmao. What the gently caress happened. They have been declining steadily for a while but this is Parkway Drive tier “pleeeeaasssseeee play us on the radio” poo poo this almost sounds like something breaking benjamin would have put out in 2004
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I couldn't get through the Ghost Inside's latest album the lyrics were so unabashedly cringey - I'm not even a lyrics guy, but good lord they were dreadful. As promised Couple shots of Fit for an Autopsy and The Acacia Strain last saturday:   The Acacia Strain:    The Acacia Strain seemed in VERY good spirits the whole show. Lots of positivity - maybe they're stoked that their tour is finally over. iirc they basically had 2 days off since June 29th
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:I think at this point, you can just pencil in almost every band of this caliber going this route after awhile. People got families, mouths to feed, and are getting older. Josh the ex-guitarist from architects did an interview where he literally said he quit because the music wasn't heavy enough so yeahhhhhh
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Doesn't look like anyone posted the new Harm's Way single yet, so here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGtuRaEvEQ E: New album in September chocolateTHUNDER fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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A few months old, but just discovered these guys recently — PR at the gym music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avM5MukYX2E
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^yeah, they rule. Trapped In A Stagnant Bloom is a go-to PR setting track
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Slotducks posted:I couldn't get through the Ghost Inside's latest album the lyrics were so unabashedly cringey - I'm not even a lyrics guy, but good lord they were dreadful. isn't the ghost inside the band that van flipped? i feel bad for them about that but iirc their lyrics are way overly preachy and i just can't gently caress w them at all also what camera do you use? i recently got a sony a7iii that i barely use bc im a single, childless adult with too much disposable income. i would love to bring it to shows and get cool shots if it's capable of that. e: sick shots btw! that's what i originally meant to say lol
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Slotducks posted:I couldn't get through the Ghost Inside's latest album the lyrics were so unabashedly cringey - I'm not even a lyrics guy, but good lord they were dreadful. thanks for posting, those shots are dope!
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ShoogaSlim posted:isn't the ghost inside the band that van flipped? i feel bad for them about that but iirc their lyrics are way overly preachy and i just can't gently caress w them at all Those are shot with a Nikon D500, with the Nikon 24-70 f2.8 lens attached. Pretty high ISOs. There's a concert photography thread in The Dorkroom here, come say hi! Wamsutta posted:thanks for posting, those shots are dope! Thank you! It's been a really fun and rewarding hobby to get into!
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I saw Better Lovers a couple of days ago. I was a bit melancholy when the EP released. Just kept thinking how it would've sounded with Keith. Talked to my dad about how it just isn't the same. He essentially just said yeah bands replace singers and it usually isn't. Knowing I'd be seeing them I gave the EP multiple listens leading up the show and it actually started growing on me. Made me realize how much I really love Jordan. Seeing him and Steve again really picked up my spirits. They sounded VERY good live. They played another two unreleased songs, one of which was particularly good. I like the band. I will support them the same way I did before. The venue was packed for them. I left afterwards as I truly don't care about the other bands. Never in my life have I been surrounded by so many etid shirts.
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jesus christ, Animals As Leaders' guitar tech took an elbow to the face in the pit and loving died: https://metalinjection.net/this-is-just-a-tribute/animals-as-leaders-guitar-tech-dave-cohen-passes-away-after-show-incident
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ShoogaSlim posted:also what camera do you use? i recently got a sony a7iii that i barely use bc im a single, childless adult with too much disposable income. i would love to bring it to shows and get cool shots if it's capable of that. I shoot with an a7III and it's definitely capable. Get a reasonably fast lens and shoot raw, you can crank the ISO surprisingly high and still get usable shots. I haven't done show photography with mine but wouldn't hesitate. Video's a different beast than photo and tbh I'm bumping up against limitations there, but for reference about 30% of this footage is from my a7III + Tamron 28-75 2.8 (the rest is my buddy's a7SIII + Sigma 24-70 2.8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB47qZKBoow This one is very much not -core but the performance lighting wasn't much different than typical show lighting and it's about 50/50 between my a7III and the a7S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nENg4YQhnY On-topic: I'm real happy with Better Lovers so far. I understand why some people are lukewarm on them, but it all works really well for me and feels like more than just ETID with Greg on vocals (even though I would've been totally fine with that). There's a lot of ETID dna there obviously, but the melodic sections especially have a different, more post-hardcore feel to them that I dig. Super excited to see where they go, Greg's miles behind Keith as a lyricist (who isn't?) but he's way more versatile and accessible as a vocalist and I could see them going some interesting places. I'm sure everyone here has listened to this already but the track owns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptq919hYxA e: Snow Cone Capone posted:jesus christ, Animals As Leaders' guitar tech took an elbow to the face in the pit and loving died: This is loving awful jesus christ SchwarzeKrieg fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Snow Cone Capone posted:jesus christ, Animals As Leaders' guitar tech took an elbow to the face in the pit and loving died: oh what the gently caress that is horrible.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:jesus christ, Animals As Leaders' guitar tech took an elbow to the face in the pit and loving died: Must've had an undetected aneurysm or something and this caused it to burst wtf
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Christ, he was the Equilibrium guitar dude and IIRC he was one of the few trustworthy small luthiers still around. That’s a major loss to that scene
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Admittedly Silent Planet is my favorite band but holy poo poo this song has me awe. That bridge is so, so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiEno0KE5uU
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Dango Bango posted:Admittedly Silent Planet is my favorite band but holy poo poo this song has me awe. That bridge is so, so good. This owns! This does not: https://twitter.com/PolarisAus/status/1682438402204135424?s=20 WTF
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I dunno if they apply here - but The Contortionist just dropped the 3 live performances they did back in '21 on streaming sites and it's ridiculous. it's like 30+ songs nearly 3 hours
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Some real good stuff on the new Johnny Booth. Opener is silly heavy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebcs_ltNy4Y A lot of pretty cool melodic stuff that feels like a modern version of early 2000s stuff like Poison the Well too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWYSCtqdq0
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Slotducks posted:I dunno if they apply here - but The Contortionist just dropped the 3 live performances they did back in '21 on streaming sites and it's ridiculous. it's like 30+ songs nearly 3 hours came up on my spotify release radar unexpectedly and im very very stoked about it wandler20 posted:This does not: i have absolutely no idea what this means
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ShoogaSlim posted:i have absolutely no idea what this means Polaris' guitarist died last week - they're signed to Resist Records (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resist_Records), which operates as an actual brick and mortar record store as well as record label. Someone cold called them and asked if they could try out to replace the guitarist. A week after he had died.
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this is why i hate twitter. it's the barbra streisand effect. one rear end in a top hat does a lovely thing and now it's the "responsibility" of the whole world to overcorrect and police people's behavior. don't feed the trolls etc. you know how much the dude who did that probably gets off on getting the attention of the band or whoever posted that? that's the whole loving point.
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SchwarzeKrieg posted:Some real good stuff on the new Johnny Booth. Opener is silly heavy Saturday night is a hometown record release show AND my birthday. I want a black eye for my birthday
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Interesting piece on Bandcamp from last week about what Arif from Protest the Hero has been up to since leaving PtH. He moved to Iran and then Turkey and has been doing a bunch of decidedly not metalcore collaborations with local musicians. https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/arif-mirbaghi-protest-the-hero-interview
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This is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj6MjcH87p4 Why am I sporting such a grin over those lovely St. Anger drums Nightmare Cinema fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Nightmare Cinema posted:This is great: this rules
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Dying Wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6pRBcG0fA4
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Came to post this. Love this band
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saw them live with a concert buddy of mine who keeps random notes about people he knows in his phone. my note is a quote i said at that show: "my dying wish would be that dying wish stops being a band" they were so bad, and the singer's voice was just raspy snarls like a sound you make when you taste something you don't like. there is zero variation in any vocal line in any song just "NYEAGH NYEAGH" the entire time to make it worse, counterparts headlined. i've already complained about the singer in this thread, but holy mother of heaven that guy is the biggest crybaby bitch i've ever seen on a stage whining the entire time about the audience
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