This is going to be soooo great. You have no idea how excited I am. 2011 is going to start with some amazing releases:
All in the first six months. Ziltoid 2, As Blood Runs Black, Gojira EP, Decide, Odious Mortem, Tesseract all sometime in 2011 too. It will be a great year.
PS
Blake has Portnoy eyes and hair, I was surprised. It’s also amazing that they can be labeled as a straight-edge band when Paul and Blake are obvious stoners.
maj7add9 asked: Oh yeah man. I listen to quite a good amount of -core myself, but it's also progressive/technical as well eg; bands like The Contortionist, After The Burial, Veil of Maya. I'm just tired of people thinking that death metal is filled with a bunch of close-minded bigots who drink beer and worship Satan, hahaha there are some people like that, but it's not completely true. It goes for both sides I guess, I mean I appreciate the more progressive and technical bands in -core genres, it's just that there's a more widespread amount of sheer redundancy in -core genres, especially with subgenres like thrashcore and rapcore. I fail to see how those are even genres, I mean, if you want to be a thrash band, then be a thrash band, but don't go butchering it's name by adding breakdowns haha.
I can’t speak for the other PB writers, but I can’t stand thrash metal. Not familiar with thrashcore though haha. After the Burial and Veil of Maya are great, Between the Buried and Me and Protest are great for progressive metalcore, and I can even appreciate some melodic hardcore/metalcore groups like For the Fallen Dreams and The Ghost Inside. I’ve seen Taylor Swift live three times, open-mindedness in music is kind of my thing :p
-AJ
“ Oh, what is ours it’s not something you can steal from life.
You’re the vile, we must despise, we must deny!
Low and confined in a shelter that’s crashing down.
You’re the enemy [we] must exile, from our life! ”
It’s hard to choose a favorite album of all time. The Final Cut, Axis: Bold as Love, Steal This Album!, Miasma, Colors, Fortress, Kezia, Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV Volume One, and Planetary Duality have all been my FAVORITE ALBUM EVER at some point. Lately I’ve been listening to Fables from a Mayfly A LOT, but I’m not ready to call it my temporary favorite ever album yet. Fair to Midland is not metal. They’re labeled as progressive alternative metal, so kinda like Tool, Rishloo, Coheed and Cambria. That stuff. You don’t get a review or an album cover, but I’ll give ya a download link.
Dance of the Manatee was my favorite song throughout freshman year but now it’s hard to pick a favorite. Kyla Cries Cologne is my least favorite though :)
-AJ
PS:
Colors will always be the best album ever and The Great Misdirect will always be second.
