good. will do.

i'll be at ruckus tomorrow (all day for the bball) so stop by for lunch if you want.

3/19/2009 12:21:24 AM

Quote :

"Between the Burried and Me, Telescreen, Eyris, Embodied "

April 2nd in ATL at one of my favorite venues


not a HUGE fan, but its cheap, only $13, might have to hit this up

3/19/2009 12:21:34 AM

BTBAM is 11/10 live. and telescreens is great too. i'd definitely give it a shot for only $13.

3/19/2009 12:22:57 AM

its at Masquerade, which I love.


Saw Boy Hits Car there (didnt even know they were still around), AMAZING show (not metal though, but even better )

[Edited on March 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM. Reason : d]

3/19/2009 12:25:12 AM

My hero is me is breaking up.
Sadfoo1

3/20/2009 10:41:20 AM

who?

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[Edited on March 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM. Reason : oh are they one of those brewery bands?]

3/20/2009 10:46:58 AM

i mean, they play the brewery when they play in raleigh if thats what you mean.

^^ and yea it was a long time coming. a few of the guys in the band didnt like their own style at all really and theyve had a ton of turnover the last few years.

[Edited on March 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM. Reason : ]

3/20/2009 11:06:45 AM

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3/20/2009 11:08:40 AM

humph..... i guess embracing goodbye will be my fave now...


fucking heros don't give up pussies

[Edited on March 22, 2009 at 3:53 PM. Reason : verbage change...]

3/22/2009 3:52:22 PM

I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

[Edited on March 22, 2009 at 4:53 PM. Reason : nothing to see here]

3/22/2009 4:51:22 PM

Quote :

"its at Masquerade, which I love."

yea, love that place.


Anywho, came to gripe about something I am seeing a lot more lately. I know of several large bands that do this and within the past year or two I know of several smaller/local bands doing this. Basically with pro tools and logic pro and all the other computer software and plugins etc. out there, its getting stupid what people can do with drums.

Not naming names since some of the local bands involved have been people I know but this is like the 4th band I have heard of that went into the studio and literally had the engineer program their entire set of drum tracks for the album (ie the drummer never played them outside of the "sample" hits that made up the pallet to choose from). What makes it even more annoying is hearing people talk about how "sick" those drummers are. Its bad enough when the engineers these days are pitch shifting vocals and falsifying drum tracks that were actually at least played, but straight up programming them is cheap. And on top of that, the latest band that I found out did it, they didnt even play all their guitar leads; they had a guitar player from a well known band come in to play their leads. Another band did this with drums but got a very well known bass player to come in and write and record all the bass parts.

Am I just being picky here? Or does anyone else agree with me that this is as cheap as it gets? Obviously I know there are "studio" musicians in the music industry, but this is a little different. We're talking about people straight up not being able to play whats on their record and then passing the work off as their own.

3/23/2009 12:24:08 AM

anyone going to shattered realm/advent/deathblow at the brewery april 12th...i'll be there with my machete

3/23/2009 12:26:51 AM

the "good shows only occur in raleigh on sunday nights when I am heading back to SC" rule strikes again

3/23/2009 12:35:19 AM

i am lucking out the week i am home in april...the appleseed cast/new found glory shows in nc...i will actually be seeing nfg in san fran next weekend too

3/23/2009 12:39:03 AM

dang, nice dude

3/23/2009 12:46:02 AM

you checked out the new nfg album? pretty good stuff

*loves nfg*

3/23/2009 12:47:55 AM

I have heard some of it at my friend's place (he has really been digging it) but I havent gotten around to picking it up yet. Sticks and Stones and S/T were so freaking catchy. I have catalyst and didnt listen to it much; never got around to picking up the one before this.

They are fun live though...Ive thought about going to that charlotte show.

edit: holy jeebus shai hulud is playing with them? I really should go to this

[Edited on March 23, 2009 at 12:56 AM. Reason : ]

3/23/2009 12:56:01 AM

yea, verse was on the bill too but they broke up...so unbelievably mad about it

3/23/2009 1:01:18 AM

+ Kreator is playing at Volume 11
- It's $25.

I'd love to see Kreator, but I don't know about this one. Exodus is playing too. Never really liked or disliked them and don't really care if I see them.

3/23/2009 1:18:40 AM

I agree with called on his statements honestly I hope none of my fave bands do that. I don't think they do unless they play the tracks when live too which is possible and even shittier. Atleast people expect tallentless pop stars to do this. Actual bands doing it is pretty shitty.

3/23/2009 6:09:42 AM

cant get into the hard rock metal bands....godsmack is about is hard as i can stand...

3/23/2009 6:28:27 AM

^^ nah only 1 or 2 from the triangle area here are ones that I know did that and not ones I think you listen to. The thing that aggravates me now is that you wonder how far it will go. If more bands start doing this to try and sound better and get big record deals (exactly why these bands did this really), I wonder how many more bands are going to want to play along to keep themselves in the game.

And most kids listening to it are oblivious too which makes it worse.

[Edited on March 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM. Reason : ]

3/23/2009 8:14:41 AM

I stand by the fact that a band isn't any good unless they are good live

3/23/2009 12:46:46 PM

im pretty much right there with you, especially these days. The main band I give an exception to is deftones. Chino is not good live, but their albums are great. Plus he used to be a lot better (especially before he shredded his vocal chords the first time).

3/23/2009 1:44:21 PM

ex. saosin (with cove)

3/23/2009 1:47:49 PM

^did you ever see Norma Jean when Brad was doing vocals?

He was the one who filled in for I guess close to 2 years after josh scogin left (Brad never recorded tho). Awesome stage presence. Worst. Live. Vocalist. Ever.

[Edited on March 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM. Reason : ]

3/23/2009 1:52:12 PM

oh yea, they came to the brewery with him, i was not there but i did see videos, brutally bad

3/23/2009 3:43:08 PM

Hahah until this latest album I've never liked Norma jeans vocals ..... But they still rock my face off.

3/23/2009 4:17:22 PM

aha i never listened to lutikriss, but i remember when norma jean first formed, people thought josh's vocals were the greatest thing since sliced bread

[Edited on March 23, 2009 at 4:52 PM. Reason : ]

3/23/2009 4:52:09 PM

Quote :

"aha i never listened to lutikriss, but i remember when norma jean first formed, people thought josh's vocals were the greatest thing since sliced bread"

haha yea, they were HUGE when they first formed. I still think "Bless the Martyr, and Kiss the Child" is a reallllly heavy album though.

3/23/2009 5:23:59 PM

im loving what I have heard of the new isis so far...

3/23/2009 7:06:23 PM

I should be getting the new Failed Séance tracks tonight (finally). They sound rougher than the other recordings, but the songs are much MUCH more bad ass.

3/24/2009 5:12:41 PM

you get those jams?

3/25/2009 8:22:54 AM

oh and as I stated previously in the music 2009 thread, Im loving the new isis.

3/25/2009 10:58:23 AM

yeah i just got dat

oh shit Torche and Dredg are comin to the brewery in april. will definitely go to that.

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[Edited on March 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM. Reason : oh shit]

3/25/2009 11:00:27 AM

man I never get tired of watching this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lxwlgyhhA

its from 2005 so this actually isnt that long ago, but if you never saw Dillinger live before they mellowed out a little bit at their shows you missed out! last time I saw them they still had a lot better stage presence than most bands but it wasnt the spectacle it used to be.

[Edited on March 25, 2009 at 9:56 PM. Reason : ]

3/25/2009 9:55:03 PM

^ so wait what are they so upset about?

3/25/2009 10:03:07 PM

i was always fond of this dillinger performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJjSE-y5o-k

3/25/2009 10:42:29 PM

haha yes that one is awesome too. and what makes that more awesome is that that same festival and same stage is host to brad from norma jean's worst taped performance ever probably haha. he totally destroys (in a bad way) one of norma jean's best songs ever "memphis will be laid to waste"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOT6STvRfg&feature=related

makes you wonder if they ever even listened to him scream when they asked him to fill in lol.

on another note, aaron weiss' guest vocals on that song on the record are the best part of that song imo

[Edited on March 25, 2009 at 10:51 PM. Reason : ]

3/25/2009 10:49:24 PM

Quote :

"Original drummer and founding member of Arsis Michael Van Dyne - who played on the band's 2004 highly praised debut album, A Celebration Of Guilt, 2005's A Diamond For Disease EP, and 2006's United In Regret - has officially returned to the band's line-up."

3/30/2009 4:19:15 PM

shai hulud is playing the opening slot on the nfg tour...lol, before set your goals and bayside

3/30/2009 9:40:07 PM

i was excited to see shai hulud at the brewery a few months ago, but they didn't really impress me live that much. i was dissapointed.

maybe that was a result of my high expectations though.

3/30/2009 10:52:12 PM

SKA REVIVAL LOL

http://www.myspace.com/wearetheunion

3/30/2009 11:31:46 PM

haha! nice

3/30/2009 11:34:00 PM

ive got a lot of catching up to do in this thread..

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 11:45 PM. Reason : gettin my read on]

3/30/2009 11:45:35 PM

http://www.purevolume.com/vanna

new cd just came out

3/31/2009 12:37:03 AM

I havent had that many metal/hardcore releases that I have really loved so far this year and there arent a ton that I am that excited about coming out later this year. :/ Isis is solid so I've been happy with that, and a few others I guess but it seems like a pretty slow year. TONS of bands out there, just not much that is really resonating with me.

3/31/2009 11:39:32 AM

New Failed Seance song up. Called "Void of Mirrors"

http://www.myspace.com/failedseancecore

4/1/2009 1:10:40 AM

i like BTBAM
because BTBAM is the only band that i know of
that can play BTBAM songs


so im gonna go see BTBAM this saturday

4/1/2009 4:18:49 AM

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4/1/2009 4:34:44 AM