#solid state records

[decemberthe7th]

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[theultradork]

It's that time again.

[escapistsatellite]

Demon Hunter- Deteriorate (Resurrected) [Lyric Video]

[thisaintascenereviews]

Miss May I - Apologies Are For The Weak (15th Anniversary Re-Recording)

The year was 2009, and I was a sophomore going into junior year in high school at that time. I was fully headfirst into my scene phase, and I was into bands like The Devil Wears Prada, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Underoath, Norma Jean, Cobra Starship, and a ton more bands that were popular during that time. I was mainly into metalcore around that time, because I discovered of an aforementioned bands the year prior and found a whole style of music that was totally new to me. Metalcore took the catchiness that I liked of post-hardcore, but it added heavier vocals, metal riffs, and breakdowns. Rise Records, in particular, was notorious for signing bands that sounded like that, and there was even a name for it — “Risecore.”

One of the more underrated bands from that style was Miss May I, especially their first couple of albums, but as with most bands of that era, they started to move into butt-rock. Yeah, I don’t know if you guys remember, but a lot of metalcore bands started becoming hard-rock bands in the 2010s, ultimately giving rise what I call “Octanecore” now, where these metalcore bands also have hard-rock and butt-rock sensibilities. It works for some bands, truthfully, but it’s been more so a way to retain the heavy credibility and get fans through radio rock listening. Thankfully, though, Miss May I’s last album, 2022’s Curse Of Existence, is a great return to form that shows they haven’t that ferocious sound they had on their debut.

With that said, their debut, Apologies Are For The Weak, turns 15 this year, and to celebrate that, the band signed to Solid State Records (which is a great fit, thankfully), and put out a re-recorded version that not only updates the original, but every song includes a guest vocalist from a metalcore or deathcore band in the scene, essentially being bands that were around that the same time that they were. I was really curious about this, because I loved their debut back in the day, and hearing a guest vocalist on each song would be interesting, so how is it?

This album is great, and while I don’t think it tops the original (usually the re-recorded versions of albums don’t resonate as well, but that’s an almost impossible task), but it holds a candle to it. The guest vocalists definitely add something to it that make it worth listening to, as well as the updated production and the musicianship sounding a lot better, but this clearly has a lot of care and love behind it. Apologies isn’t the most defining album of the 00s, but it’s a fun and energetic metalcore album that included some razor sharp riffs on top of breakdowns, so there’s been a bit of a cult following for it over the years. If you loved that album, I’d certainly listen to it, and if this is your first foray into this band, it’s still worth listening to.

[grungeincluded]

''Along with the niches of more counter-cultural inspired Evangelicals releasing more and more #music through the 80s, artists tried to keep up and create or come into the amorphous sounds and scenes of what came to be called “#grunge”

''Grunge can be defined in various social, musical, aesthetic, and political ways, with its roots in punk and that scene(s)’ diversity of expression and ideology.

Grunge made suburban kids able to access really cool shit they never would have come across otherwise, as experimentally expressive entertainment or philosophically. They could move to the city and reinvent themselves, or do it in their basements with less fear of getting their asses stomped on the way to the record store (which happened to me, again and again, in 1979).'' - Chris Estey

© Grunge Included | @37fotosb

[nineteenfiftysix]

The Chariot - Evolve: (Wars And Rumors Of Wars, 2009)

[mymelodic-chapel]

Underoath- They're Only Chasing Safety (Post-Hardcore) Released: June 15, 2004 [Solid State Records] Producer(s): James Paul Wisner

[thephotopitmagazine]

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA + FIT FOR A KING ANNOUNCE SECOND LEG OF METALCORE DROPOUTS TOUR SECOND SEMESTER KICKS OFF IN JANUARY

  THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA + FIT FOR A KING ANNOUNCE SECOND LEG OF METALCORE DROPOUTS TOUR SECOND SEMESTER KICKS OFF IN JANUARY   FIT FOR A KING + THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA are thrilled to announce the Winter 2024 leg of the Metalcore Dropouts Tour. The Fall 2023 leg wrapped up last week and the co-headline pairing is so good it needs to keep going! The Metalcore Dropouts 2nd Semester Tour…

[spotaus]

Sighh. Trying to figure out if I'm going to project onto Night again for this next drabble....

[pagesofkenna]

if i ever DO decide to move to the midwest, or just generally the US east, which is where the midwest is, ive got to start an influencer-style shortform video series where i try out non-Californian things for the first time from an extremely Californian-perspective

[lapsedmathematician]

I am currently the can't-stand-her-fake-ass/me-and-the-bestie meme with political polls bc they're mostly nonsense and I know they are. but I have chosen the selzer poll as my champion and a sign of things to come

[dragonofeternal]

sorry to ask this (no judgement) but are you into plantcest? you reblogged a post that op tagged as that but you didn't tag it as that so i was just wondering since it came up on my blacklist, i hope you're having a good day!

I'm neutral to positive on it?

I enjoy it, but it's not my "OHHH MAN GOTTA SEE IT" ship to seek out. I might write some eventually? IDK I think that whether you read a romantic/sexual element into it or not, though, Knives has a really fucked up view of Vash (and particularly Vash's bodily autonomy) that lends itself a dynamic that can quickly slip into uncomfy territory. Usually I'm better about tagging ship stuff (esp things I know other people filter for) but I'll be honest and say my brain was a lil fried last night so it slipped my mind.

As a general rule for any folks new to the dragonofeternal space, I'm solidly ship and let ship. I enjoy fucked up ships and nasty gore weirdness with the same breath that I enjoy wholly unshippy and unsexual gen content. I am a creature of many pleasures, lol.

I'm big in people taking active agency in curating their online experience, so if the stuff I like or reblog makes folks uncomfortable, please feel free to unfollow/mute/what have you at any time. I know I have things that are dealbreakers for me bc of squick or even just general dislike/annoyance lol, so please don't worry that I will be offended that you aren't into XYZ or unfollow me.

All that said lemme go add the plantcest tag to that one pic because I uhhh definitely missed that the blades were dripping when I first reblogged it lol

[jazzdailyblog]

"Central Park North:" A Landmark in Big Band Jazz

Introduction: The late 1960s were a tumultuous time for jazz. The genre was evolving rapidly, with new subgenres emerging and challenging traditional forms. Amid this dynamic landscape, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra carved out a distinctive niche. Their 1969 album, “Central Park North,” stands as a testament to the vitality and innovation of big-band jazz during this period. This blog…

[wormsdyke]

nothing like the specific pain of listening to the new record of a band you love and discovering it’s good but completely different from their past work and no longer your style

[thisaintascenereviews]

Lightworker - How The Beautiful Decay

With all of the bands today that are being influenced by 00s heavy music, especially metalcore, one subset of metalcore I’m not seeing too much of is melodic metalcore. Bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, and many others reigned supreme in the 00s, but they balanced catchy hooks with brutal metalcore. I call some of these bands “At The Gates-core,” because they take influence from the 90s melodic death scene. Their melody comes from both their melo-death influence and the melodic choruses they employ, but these bands faded out of favor in the early 2010s when “Risecore” became really popular. Breakdowns and generic clean choruses became more popular, and flashy and melodic guitarwork and riffs became out of favor.

It’s rare to find bands like that anymore, especially when a lot of those bands turned into hard-rock / butt-rock, so hearing a melodic metalcore band that harkens back to that era is really cool. That’s exactly what I did, too, with Lightworker’s sophomore album, How The Beautiful Decay. I found this band randomly while looking at the new releases, and I saw that they’re signed to Solid State. Greyhaven just dropped their new EP on there a couple weeks back, so I figured these guys might be worth looking into. Sure enough, they ultimately are, as this record is a really fun ride through nostalgia-inducing melodic metalcore that took me back to the genre’s heyday but feeling a bit more modernized.

These guys balance catchy hooks, solid riffs, and brutal breakdowns quite nicely, and nothing ever feels out of place or bland. The clean vocals sound like they came from a butt-rock band, but they aren’t bad, and they kind of add to their 00s sound. Otherwise, I love this band’s really heavy sound, and they have some super awesome breakdowns that scratch that itch quite nicely. The riffs are really cool, too, and they’re utilized well. These guys are very talented musicians, despite being a relatively new band. I hadn’t heard of them before finding this album, but these guys were a great find.

These guys don’t necessarily have a unique sound that I haven’t heard before, but this album is so well done that if you enjoy that sound, you’ll probably really love this album. I didn’t know I needed this album until I heard it, but it’s one of the best heavy albums I’ve heard all year so far. I’ve been having a total blast with this record, especially since I’ve coincidentally been in the mood for hard hitting metalcore and this past week has given me some solid releases to sink my teeth into, so it’s been great, and this album is no exception. If you want some melody with your metalcore, this is a great album to listen to.

[decemberthe7th]

But it’s better than this

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