Atreyu Question...
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Jasonic
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You had to watch a dozen videos to know those bands blow?
Out of that list, the only semi-tolerable one to me is SHADOWS FALL, as I think they are really good musicians, and a good live band.
Hatebreed was good as a hardcore band, but like many bands, once they fall victim to false marketing and try to be something they are not, they lose all of what made them appealing in the first place.
Burnout
Faith Puppeteer
Jasonic
Doom On!
Yep, as I said.....marketing.........
It ensures their product will remain on the shelf at Hot Topic.
It works, so I can't fault them for it.
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
Hey many pose as metal bands just scan over the "progressive metal" sub-genre
And my girlfried's suggestiopn behind me "can Nightwish really be considered metal?"
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
kind of agree here is some regards. Though the band is able to be market towards many audiences and more power to them for that. As for discrediting their metalness well metal has changed and keeps changing. As much as I don't care for it that is the way it is. Here I would think the word "progressive" would be understood.
It really isn't my thing but honestly I don't think a lot of bands with the "metal" tag are heavy metal (Epica for example) but not everything can be Manilla Road (one of the greatest metal bands ever by the way)
dcowboys311
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Hatebreed still is a good hardcore band. Granted none of their recent releases have been as good as Satisfaction but they still put out quality music.
I think the category was "Bands General Zod is not interested in," and he's probably best to determine that
dcowboys311
Member
Nah, you said that they're marketed that way to go along with the current trend.
They've been doing that since they started.
Metalmilitia2000
UM's Resident Asshole
I think the category was "Bands General Zod is not interested in," and he's probably best to determine that
I thought they were bands that everyone thought sucked... ahahahah
dcowboys311
Member
Yeah the Irony is a Dead Scene release is great!
I like all of DEP's material, but that's my favorite.
TribunalRecords
Record Label(s)/Vocalist
i don't think they "pose." Dan, the short guitarist, has always been into hair metal since i have known him circa 2000. he was rocking that stuff in their sound since the beginning. again, a band gets big before most anyone knows about their roots are automatically "posing." haha.
i guess i am a poser for re-issuing thrash metal now, but released Atreyu's first EP back in the day, eh? hahaha even though i am 37 and grew up going to thrash metal shows.
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
i don't think they "pose." Dan, the short guitarist, has always been into hair metal since i have known him circa 2000. he was rocking that stuff in their sound since the beginning. again, a band gets big before most anyone knows about their roots are automatically "posing." haha.
i guess i am a poser for re-issuing thrash metal now, but released Atreyu's first EP back in the day, eh? hahaha even though i am 37 and grew up going to thrash metal shows.
in a hardcore band wearing a Loudness t shirt and opening the show with Glass Tiger...Or was it The Outfield?
Anway you're a poser
I know those Melissa Manchester CDs for really for you and not your dad.
AeonicSlumber
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i don't think they "pose." Dan, the short guitarist, has always been into hair metal since i have known him circa 2000. he was rocking that stuff in their sound since the beginning. again, a band gets big before most anyone knows about their roots are automatically "posing." haha.
i guess i am a poser for re-issuing thrash metal now, but released Atreyu's first EP back in the day, eh? hahaha even though i am 37 and grew up going to thrash metal shows.
Who cares dude, props to you for discovering a band that went on to do big things. You should be proud.
nomisofsiman
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I'd have to agree with this almost entirely. I don't think The Dillinger Escape Plan though. I understand why you might not like them. They're a very "OUT THERE" sort of band and have a limited fan base because of it. They're great musicians though.
Bullet is a definite poser band, but sometimes I like them. They're one of those bands for me where there are days I think they're awesome and days I fucking hate them to the core. I don't know why that it is though.
Gunstar9
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i don't think they "pose." Dan, the short guitarist, has always been into hair metal since i have known him circa 2000. he was rocking that stuff in their sound since the beginning. again, a band gets big before most anyone knows about their roots are automatically "posing." haha.
i guess i am a poser for re-issuing thrash metal now, but released Atreyu's first EP back in the day, eh? hahaha even though i am 37 and grew up going to thrash metal shows.
It doesn't make you a poser, it makes you a businessman.
To me (and many others) "scene" is not metal. "Scene" is just marketing a product based on fashion and social trends. Produce a CD of trite crabcore that waters down At the Gates and Carcass riffs, come up with a seemingly thoughtful or utterly ridiculous name, and give it a bright colored front image with a picture of scene clones on the back and you've got yourself a product to move in Hot Topic and FYE.
Atreyu may have started out with an identity for themselves but ultimately what they are now as a band will keep me disinterested in their music forever.
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
Hey, there's certainly a power-metal connection, via Dragonland.
Right about now, my Auryn necklace is glowing and getting warm.
--Which is fast becoming my first choice to find metal CDs locally if I don't have time to mail-order them.
Case in point: the new Immortal CD. Not one Best Buy store within 500 miles of Atlanta is carrying it...I know this because I had them check and the CD had been "deleted." Nearest copy on a Best Buy shelf was in someplace like Michigan...and this, for one of Nuclear Blast's biggest releases of the year. (It's weird, because they DID have, say, Psycroptic on the shelf there....)
The helpful but nonplussed metalhead kid at Best Buy suggested I try Hot Topic...and not only did they have it featured, but it was on sale for $12. And of course, they carry a fair amount of metal CDs along with the goth, hardcore and emo.
J. Golden
Heaven and Hell Records
I don't think Matt did the thrash stuff for capitalizing reasons. But I doubt he would complain if they make money either.
As for the marketing of bands well every "scene" does the same damn thing. Be it power and progressive metal bands, nu-metal, metalcore, emo or whatever the bands of a genre are all interchangeable for the most part. The only difference is some of these genres hit a larger market. These 'Hot Topic" bands are merely Bon Jovis and Poisons of today. And if everyone in this forum was the age now we were when Cinderella hooked us we would be buying all of these Avenge Seven Fold bands. Serious, Poison, Tuff, Britney Fox and crap like that wasn't much better.
note; this example can be work for any age group.
Spiderpact
West Bench White Trash
Hey, there's certainly a power-metal connection, via Dragonland.
Right about now, my Auryn necklace is glowing and getting warm.
"Turn around, and look at what you see, ee ee yee ee ee yee ee ee yee..."
Hahaha, glad to see that Fantasia lives inside of you as well!
But to put my post back to the subject at hand, I would like to say that Atreyu is the type of band that makes you wish you would have showed up a little later to the KROQ Alice in Chains/Guns n' Roses summer show a few years ago.
What do Atreyu and a Dentist have in common? The sound of their instruments make me cringe equally!
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