Modern emo, emo prog and stuff

[ProCarsteNation]

BTBAM.... I don't even know what that means
did'nt. now I do. not bad at all. not mind blowing but not bad at all...

Thrice you say?
NIIICE I say!! but I guess I'm really late to that party





(oops, the HOB concert is running in the background, and I... just.... got a U2-vibe? )

[casecandy]

Thrice you say?
NIIICE I say!! but I guess I'm really late to that party

Never too late. They reformed and played several festivals this year. Dustin is still making worship and contemporary Christian music but IMO he thought the church he started working for was this nice progressive church... because of the pastor, Rob Bell, who basically announced to the Christian community that there is no hell and no one goes there when they die... for which thinking he was promptly fired... and the church, Mars Hill, back-spiralled into homophobia and shit. I think he'll get the post-hardcore/post-metal bug again soon. I wouldn't say there'll never be another Thrice album.

Fun fact: Teppei, the real hero of Thrice, runs a snazzy leather goods company http://www.teranishistudio.com/

[D.o.S.]

LOL "progressive church".

[DarkAxel]

progressive worship - now with 100% more polyrythms, dotted 1/8* delays and shimmer that harmonizes in 7ths

[daseb]

Rick Wakeman playing a church organ in a cape with a gold lame crucifix embroidered on it.

[casecandy]

progressive worship - now with 100% more polyrhythms, dotted 1/8* delays and shimmer that harmonizes in 7ths

YAAAAAASSSSSS

I would GO to that church TBH

[D.o.S.]

Does this mean I can blame Thrice's suckitude on Jesus?

[DarkAxel]

You can try, but just like god, the suckitude is not real

[WeHuntKings]

Is there even any fuzz in this shit?

[casecandy]

Is there even any fuzz in this shit?

Loads and loads

[casecandy]

You can try, but just like god, the suckitude is not real

While I believe in God, I concur with you on the suckitude.

You cannot blame suckitude on Jesus. Jesus is ashamed of all the sucky bands that love him.

[odontophobia]

This thread boggles my mind.

How are you equating a lot of these verse chorus catchy bands as progressive? The term doesn't seem to apply.

You're saying noodle-y and well-thought out songs are something more than that. Minus the Bear is a pretty great band but they're nothing more than a guitar driven rock band.

The only bands mentioned in this thread that have anything to do with "progressive" are Dream Theatre, Periphery, The Mars Volta and Cohered and Cambria. Coheed and Cambria do have a few too many radio rock/butt rock tendencies at times for me to find them interesting (first two albums are pretty good).

I think you're mistaking time periods for musical genres. Because The Receiving End of Sirens and the Sounds of Animals Fighting were writing songs that didn't sound like Taking Back Sunday and Finch and a bunch of other bands that rose in popularity from 2003-2008 they're suddenly progressive -- seems weird to me.

I can definitely get down with plenty of bands mentioned in this thread, more for nostalgia than anything else at this point but this whole thread and the 'screamo' gear thread was confusing as all hell. It feels more like a byproduct of place and time than it does about anything else. Like so many of us tend to do we just lump so many of these bands together because tour packages and local shows didn't have a choice on which bands to book with that out of town band who also road the counter culture train.

[D.o.S.]

I mean progressive is a relative descriptor. Compared to the Shaggs playing in time is progressive.

Calling TMV 'progressive' when they're not doing anything that wasn't done 30 years before their band was formed seems kind of funny to me.

[daseb]

'punk floyd'

[DarkAxel]

I mean progressive is a relative descriptor.

yep... but as you might notice from the OP, I was also a bit puzzled by the "emo prog" moniker

y'all have to admit though... Prog doesn't mean 20min tracks with nonsensical 10-15min masturbatory instrumental sections anymore (lke we used to see with Yes and Dream Theater and stuff like that)

Thank god, right?

You can be prog and still catchy. It's a different sense of progginess and it can easily be just a relative thing to what's happening otherwise, but it can always be just the way of your instrumentation, genre fluidity and basically putting an interesting twist on rock music.