So check out this band from Austin that's breaking out.

[htsamurai]

to be fair i do actually like IWRESTLEDABEARONCE
its not just CHUG-CHUG-CHUGACHUGACHUGACHUGA-CHUG-CHUG (insert stupid break here)

they're actually good at what they do, the singer has a great voice and can growl like nobodys business, their guitarists have some of the coolest solos ive heard in recent years, the keyboardist isnt just using a microkorg and fagging it up and their drummer....well just listen to their stuff

[Antero]

What you're watching is Crabcore.

[Roseweave]

Oh god, that's just awful. What's with two nearly identical bands coming out like that.

The thing is that they don't really understand how you put a song together, or how music flows. You don't just have a random electro section that kind of goes with the rest of the song, if it's going to be as jarring as that you need some kind of transition.

You can claim music is all subjective, but I can see what they're TRYING to do and not achieving.

There's so much music nowadays that has a fundamental misunderstanding of why people enjoy music to begin with. It's selling itself on throwing things out there people identify with to some degree and people don't bother getting into the music properly, it's just a "thing".

[Communarchy]

There's so much music nowadays that has a fundamental misunderstanding of why people enjoy music to begin with. It's selling itself on throwing things out there people identify with to some degree and people don't bother getting into the music properly, it's just a "thing".

That's right. If you listen to any of that music, it's all just "parts" of songs thrown haphazardly together, as if on shuffle. None of these so-called "parts" feature anything remotely aesthetically/emotionally/technically interesting and are used for shock/shlock purposes. As bluntly as possible, it's like "lol, there's the breakdown part, sounds like hatebreed, oh lol, they go in a techno part! lolz, like sandstorm! LOL TEH SINGER SOUNDZ LIK T-PAIIN!"

Fucking abysmal. Retread, ringtone-grade music, thrown into a pop(read: junk) culture blender, spun together, comes out tasting like shit.

I mean, listen to that Attack Attack song. It's primarily one note, a palm muted D, played in prepackaged, "metal" rhythms, add some stock double bass drumming, screaming, a three chord chorus with some bullshit "straight-from-a-teenage-girl's-myspace-blog" lyrics, an ascending octave chord line so it only appears that the both guitarists aren't playing the same thing the entire song, and a few, "I-bought-a-dual-rec-from-gc-yesterday-look-what-i-can-do-with-TEH-GAINZ" pinch harmonics for good measure. Oh, and for the bridge, throw the Korg on "Demo" mode. Look mom, I made a song.

This sort of shit is the "rock" equivalent of a Soulja Boy ringtone. The difference being, at least Soulja Boy has a sense that his music is a commodity and doesn't have any sort pretension that he's doing something "original" or "of substance." The fact that a lot of these bands are "christian" is the greatest argument for the abolition of religion since Brit Milah.

[Seizurema]

There's so much music nowadays that has a fundamental misunderstanding of why people enjoy music to begin with. It's selling itself on throwing things out there people identify with to some degree and people don't bother getting into the music properly, it's just a "thing".

That's right. If you listen to any of that music, it's all just "parts" of songs thrown haphazardly together, as if on shuffle. None of these so-called "parts" feature anything remotely aesthetically/emotionally/technically interesting and are used for shock/shlock purposes. As bluntly as possible, it's like "lol, there's the breakdown part, sounds like hatebreed, oh lol, they go in a techno part! lolz, like sandstorm! LOL TEH SINGER SOUNDZ LIK T-PAIIN!"

Fucking abysmal. Retread, ringtone-grade music, thrown into a pop(read: junk) culture blender, spun together, comes out tasting like shit.

I mean, listen to that Attack Attack song. It's primarily one note, a palm muted D, played in prepackaged, "metal" rhythms, add some stock double bass drumming, screaming, a three chord chorus with some bullshit "straight-from-a-teenage-girl's-myspace-blog" lyrics, an ascending octave chord line so it only appears that the both guitarists aren't playing the same thing the entire song, and a few, "I-bought-a-dual-rec-from-gc-yesterday-look-what-i-can-do-with-TEH-GAINZ" pinch harmonics for good measure. Oh, and for the bridge, throw the Korg on "Demo" mode. Look mom, I made a song.

This sort of shit is the "rock" equivalent of a Soulja Boy ringtone. The difference being, at least Soulja Boy has a sense that his music is a commodity and doesn't have any sort pretension that he's doing something "original" or "of substance." The fact that a lot of these bands are "christian" is the greatest argument for the abolition of religion since Brit Milah.

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[delaydecay]

id drive 6 hours just to beat the first band to death with a bat. i really would.

[McSpunckle]

Holy shit socket... it's like he was screaming over Owl City.

The record companies are just fucking with us, right? RIGHT?!

[tuffteef]

LOL crabcore

[Wizard]

since when is mediocrity celebrated?

oh wait...

[bigchiefbc]

For a lesson in how to blend hardcore/punk with techno breaks, and actually have it sound GOOD, see these guys:

(the kick-in at 1:07 rules my life)
(and coming out of the break from 3:30 to 4:00 is fucking awesome too)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AoiVMQqX4[/youtube]